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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America 
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After I lay my burden down, amid my verses and millions of words, what will substitute my pleasure as I travel that "other" path? I can't see life without the written word, a bleak and distant world that would be, for they have been my lifeline, my spiritual mentor, to weather storms I have weathered. I have been captivated by words, And because of that I have been called absurd. You write poems, ain't that a girl thing? Can you make it so the words I can sing? Somebody has to write 'em I guess, Look at that guy Eminem. In my wilder days words comforted me when women could not it was a strange thing the poems I wrote caused sighs from the lovelies still they couldn't understand my wanderlust Words mean everything They are conversational Even if whispered No, I can't envision me not laying down words, even in the joint there were books, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment I read apropos, do you not think? Words put a hex on me. Even books whose characters names Were not pronounceable. I took on Sarte, Camus, Genet that bunch of pseudo-philosophers but I liked what I read at least the gray matter was being exercised, that's always good If these words I write now would be my last, Hopefully I shan't have written in vain. These faux literary expressions of mine, wondering if my words could be the key, for someone, somewhere to, change their life and become a bard. If that could happen If my words could strike a match That is all I ask . . . and the Raven said, %!~#&(&#!$! |
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Andrew Scott Member Elite
since 1999-06-24
Posts 2558Redlands,CA,USA |
You ask for much, but I don't believe you can ask for anything less. Isn't it amazing what words can do? But as a wise man once said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." Keep workin' that keyboard. Thanks for sharing. Peace. "We'll chase them like rats across the tundra." |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Ask for the moon and maybe you'll receive some stars. I can, as you said, do no less. thank you, Andrew. |
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