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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2012-02-11 06:09 AM

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stress
three days of it
I don't do stress well
older I get
worse I seem to handle it
today was one of the worse days
I've ever had
and that's saying something
goes back plenty of years
but today
stress had me thinking
of putting in motion only things
I've halfheartedly
thought of as a defense mechanism
today was scary

until . . .

the reason for my stress
car trouble resolved
and I was able
to chat with my honey

©February 6, 2012 / Jerry Pat Bolton

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2012-02-11 06:27 AM

I am so glad the perfect cure for your stress showed up, Jerry!

There is always a way out, see ...

Your words work strongly into the direction of hope, as it flickers always even in the most stressful moments.

Very good. And the picture is just perfectly emblematic.

Margherita

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2012-02-11 06:29 AM

Thank you so much, Margherita , for always being here and knowing the right words to say according to each piece I post. Your presence is greatly appreciated.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2012-02-11 10:13 AM

Stress is a sucker! And it tastes like poo!
Glad all ended well my friend.

Lori

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

4 posted 2012-02-11 10:41 AM

hi Jerry, sometimes stress has an explanation and can be changed or transformed, i love the originality of the poem and its hopeful mesage, an enjoyment,

yann

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

5 posted 2012-02-11 10:51 AM

Appreciate the informative comment Yann, thanks.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2012-02-11 10:51 AM

Thank you Lori, and you are right, it does taste like poo. Heehee

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Klassy Lassy
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since 2005-06-28

Posts 2187
Oregon

7 posted 2012-02-11 07:42 PM

I think not getting to talk to the love you your life is the real clincher. Car trouble is a horrible instigater. Went through it recently myself, in the middle of construction with the 75 mph traffic (semi's) playing bumper tag with the construction cones, very effectively sending them air-borne at and over my car. The workers were not happy with us, either, and there I sat for 3 1/2 hours with a deranged driver who deliberately put me there, knowing the car would stall. Once the tow truck found us, it only took 20 minutes to get to town. Jerry, come to think of it, I don't think I do stress very well, either!

So glad yours had a sweeter ending. KL

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

8 posted 2012-02-11 07:52 PM

Yours sounded more horrible than mine, Klassy Lassy. Mine was bad enough, but everything came out okay, and the honey was sweeter by far.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

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