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jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2013-02-14 09:12 PM

Gene Pools

The dog -
wolf-want-to-be -
pointed it's nose to the sky,
trembled, not knowing
what else to do.

Me,
paper on the desk before me,
pen in hand,
waiting on words
that won't come anymore.

Both of us caught
in the miasma of a gene pool
that seems to have lost it's way.
Four-legged,
two-legged,
lost in age,
gray
where dark use to be,
foggy
where clarity was the rule.

Dog and me,
tripping over ourselves,
not knowing if this was the day,
or the one before the night.

Tomorrow . . .
a dream of yesterday,
the day before that,
the reality of those that came before,
the gene pool that knew everything;
it's forgotten today.

Dog and me,
sitting,
where we stand waiting
for the moon to lay down
with us;
waiting to quiet the screams
of gene pools
that have lost their way.

Tomorrow . . . maybe,
just one of us,
Waiting.

Waiting.

©wesley james beard, jr.
june 2007

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

1 posted 2013-02-14 10:12 PM

Powerful and very creative write with much insight, Jimmy.
Ida

Victoria

Member Ascendant

since 2000-08-12

Posts 5869

2 posted 2013-02-15 01:30 PM

I hate it when the words wont come.Sometimes it takes me two days to finish a poem and than sometimes two minutes. I notice I can write when I'm alone in the house, peace and quiet. I enjoyed the whole poem Jimmy.

~Victoria

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Confucius

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

3 posted 2013-02-15 06:26 PM

Enjoyed as I always do when I see your name attatched.jo-

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

4 posted 2013-02-16 06:49 AM

powerful , commons roots exist for sure and may some day we will know more about that, just have to wait and seek, thanks

yann

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

5 posted 2013-02-16 09:40 AM

Thanks folks . . . always enjoy your presence in my meanderings ...

As a dyed in the wool, misplaced Coonass, Me an dog were watching The N.O. Saints (the real genetic screw up!) lose another football game when in my typically saints-induced-morose-mood, this came to mind and just seemed to say it all.

Game ended, Saints typically lost and more beer, and oyster poorboy and everything was rosy again....

(and if any are interested, I'd sure like a few reads on "The Quickening" on these pages, I'm really curious if what I put in is understood ... have had a couple people (outside the Blue pages) who missed it entirely, so maybe I need to rewrite it?? I know sometime what we write is understood by us (the writer), but if the reader dosen't get it, the write, to me, is worthless!)

j.

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