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Open Poetry #49

the edge of tolerance

luminosity
Senior Member

since 2005-11-18

Posts 813

0 posted 2015-06-04 10:53 AM

comfortable
or even when not so
the edge was not to my liking
much safer
I kept to middle ground
but these days
apparently less lenient
I find my path leads me closer
and the edge somehow
seems less precipitous

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2015-06-04 11:11 AM

Hah! I was . . . Pretty much still am, an on the edge kinda guy. I don't know, to me hanging in the middle is like eating oatmeal without cinnamon, honey and blueberries . . . bland . . .

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

devina
Member Elite

since 1999-10-28

Posts 3539
Cali

2 posted 2015-06-04 01:27 PM

I say go for it!
*May whatever opens/ed up for you be fruitful
~d

"..But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.."
~Emily Bronte
'The Night is Darkening Around Me'

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

3 posted 2015-06-04 08:27 PM

I can certainly relate... the fear we have of something dissipating to a point where we are comfortable with it, and maybe even progressing further to a point where we dance with it. Of course, taking that sensation with "tolerance" leaves the whole outcome more numbing, than exciting.

Michael

luminosity
Senior Member

since 2005-11-18

Posts 813

4 posted 2015-06-05 09:51 AM

thank you, though this was more about 'going postal' than finding new exciting avenues...I like all of your points of view better than from the one it was written from

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

5 posted 2015-06-11 02:03 PM

As tangled as we are, when one nears the edge, the other prepares for impact. LOL Comfort and contentment sure are fleeting, aren't they?

Love the write... love you... miss you!!!

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

6 posted 2015-06-12 09:03 AM

the only "certain certanties" are transience and change ... all is fleeting, especially 'love' ... as is the pursuit of happiness!

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