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JerryPat2
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0 posted 2013-10-12 08:17 AM



ahhh . . .
I am just a guy
grown into a man
insignificant
except to a select few
the nights spent on the bayou
speaks to me softly
swelling my heart with satisfaction
and pleasure
the vastness of star-enveloped nights
as I gaze upward
and watch the stars write across the sky
a name written . . . not known to me
but I understand
someone somewhere is watching
my own name being written
in a foreign sky
he, like I
becomes mesmerized
and so we are
beyond doubt brothers

(c)October 10, 2013 / Jerry at Bolton

~*~ I want to hear a Jim Croce song, but it will cut too deep, be too real. ~*~

© Copyright 2013 Jerry Pat Bolton - All Rights Reserved
Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
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Fair to middlin' of nowhere
1 posted 2013-10-12 08:51 AM


oooh, I like the visual I got on this one! The serene feeling is palpable.

Lori  


JerryPat2
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South Louisiana
2 posted 2013-10-12 09:13 AM


I'm happy that you felt the poem, Lori, thank you.

~*~ I want to hear a Jim Croce song, but it will cut too deep, be too real. ~*~

Michael
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Member Rara Avis
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3 posted 2013-10-13 12:58 PM


I tip my hat to all the stargazers out there.  That was always one of my favorite pastimes when I lived in the mountains.  I can barely see the stars at all in this smog pit I'm living in now.  There is sooo much the stars say to those willing to see, and who can see.  I'm envious.

Michael

Gale
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since 2013-06-10
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Russia
4 posted 2013-10-13 02:19 AM


Of course I'm not your brother (in any sense), Jerry, but I could be your sister since we both love the starry sky above us
Lovely poem!

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