Life Like Pudding Melting In Cold Autumn Rain

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Open Poetry #48

Life Like Pudding Melting In Cold Autumn Rain

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2013-11-10 08:44 PM

I used to write
desperately,
as if it could save my soul,
as if in role of keeping thoughts alive
I served some inner drive
or force of will
beyond cleansing whole of my existence,
there was no conscious goal to it,
no sense of sharing
not even caring if my words ever were read;
one day soon I will be dead,
dead and free,
and I wonder where those thoughts will be,
lost I suppose,
that is just the way the circle goes.

©2013 by icebox

ebonygirl
Member Elite

since 2011-07-14

Posts 2000
California U.S.A

1 posted 2013-11-10 10:04 PM

Your thoughts
never lost
guide us
through crossroads
in the flesh.
Besides, you can't die or you'll be
greatly missed!

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2013-11-10 11:30 PM

I wonder if Shakespeare had these same thoughts? I do...not that I am comparing myself to Shakespeare.
Ida

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2013-11-11 12:35 PM

Hopefully old thoughts will be replaced by the new if at the end of our time we gain a different perspective. I'm inclined to think we write just for ourselves to gain clarity and make some sense of our world and perhaps ourselves so it's not a wasted endeavour. But for the majority of us our words will be lost and knowing that we still write so ... who is pulling the strings?

I've enjoyed your offerings for many years now so keep writing, Charly!

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

4 posted 2013-11-11 02:11 AM

Charly, Your words will not stray.I have a lot of them in a file with your name on it. I am sure others also have them. You are one of the best and I never fail to read what you write.I just do not post as often.Best to you Jo

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

5 posted 2013-11-11 01:52 PM

all of us ... in this 'Autumn of our lives' can most assuredly relate all-too-well to this superb 'write!'

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

6 posted 2013-11-19 09:32 PM

fine writing...I imagine that our writing changes to some extent as we travel through seasons in our lives...James

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