Open Poetry #48 |
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The Pen |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California ![]() |
The Pen It's just a pen, so tell me why It can't write words I want it to? ...Of smiling face, of gleam in eye. Or even love found ever true. It's just a pen; it has no mind, So how can it contradict me— Paint me like a fool, colorblind To richness in life I can't see? It's just a pen I hold in hand, A tool to pry open my soul; Though most would never understand These words aren't something I control. And in the end, just know it's true, This pen is but the legacy I hope never cuts into you The way it has cut into me. My muse, sole bearer of this gift I have to give, so give in kind; I wish, just once, could help me lift This pen to better humankind. Michael Anderson |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
It is our own wheels turning that puts that pen to paper....Hold on to your pen now ya hear!!! You write some honest truths and turn it into poetry and that's not an easy thing to do. ...seriously for me, writing fluff is challenging to say the least. |
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swampguy Member
since 2013-08-04
Posts 83 |
Ahhh the pen, Michael, is the conduit to our soul and that stubborn Muse that we all have and sometimes with we didn't. ~*~ The heart does not go backward, only the mind. ~*~ |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
fine writing...James |
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Paul Wilson![]() ![]()
since 2002-07-07
Posts 4711United States |
MIchael...I know exactly how you feel. My pin has dried up, but i'm not sure that it is better to write of heartache and pain or to not write at all. Take care my friend...Paul ~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~ |
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paderewski Member
since 2011-02-04
Posts 287Louisiana, USA |
I was swampguy, Michael, but now am Paderewski. Any chance You or someone could restore me back to JerryPat2? Just wondering . . . ~*~ Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes. ~*~ |
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Michael
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Not something I can do for you, Jer... so far as I know anyway, but I will let the admins know you are requesting it. Michael |
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paderewski Member
since 2011-02-04
Posts 287Louisiana, USA |
Thanks Michael. ~*~ Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes. ~*~ |
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Larry C![]()
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
Michael, You express well the drought of the pen. Apparently the drought has ended. If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
I think this is one of your best ever, Michael. Ida |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
careful what you ask for Michael.... Ask and you shall receive. You never know when an "updraft" will hit you or how your "blues" will strike someone else. You may have already done more than you know. Lori ![]() |
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