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Impasse
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas 
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Impasse Sometimes . . . sitting in front of the computer, like this, listening to music play, fingers on the home-row waiting for the letters and the words to take shape, I sink deep into reverie - even deeper - into the bottom of my soul of years and years ago, and I find my eyes looking at nothing, my breath, shallow, heart, slowing in the yearnings of the years, of the past - of the could have beens wish-have beens, realities that were, and were not. And I hurt in ways, so subtle, there's really no pain, an ache, so dull, it's more a sigh of not being able to breathe, of birth waiting to happen because . . . because I couldn't have come so far in such a short while. Impasse. No keys being struck, No words being created. Just memories eating me from the inside . . . Oh, my, what have I done, with my life.
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Damn, Jimmy you too? So many poems I could have written but for the scenario you have just painted with your words. All I can say to this gem of a write . . . I relate big time! ~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~ |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Talk about calling it what it is....I think we have all been there...great thoughts! |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
i imagine you in ftont of the computer, we all have different ways to be inspired, yours is like one of golddigger (wait and see), may be i didn't understood all of the poem, for myself, i don't wait, ideas comme in my mind, i have only to ve careful and conscious to not let them go your poem is a beautiful indeed yann |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Hey JW I think we all sink into that depth of reflective pondering......Seems to be at that very moment we forget many of the good things we do and have done. Good writing! Eric true love never looks after it's own interests |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Wow JW, this is just how it is with us "oldies". You described it beautifully. Well done! |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Jimmy, What a comfort to hear those words come from people you look up to! Nice to know we are at lest in the same boat. However I often feel as if I'm being towed along in the dingy, I'm still in on the grand adventure. Keep in mind when thinking about how you could have taken a different path....on that different path you could have gotten hit by a bus. ~L |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Lori - yeah - but, maybe on that different path - I'D HAVE HIT THE POWERBALL!!! , and bought the bus company... lol j. |
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rainyday Member Posts 304 Heartland USA |
Hmmmm..Have you been reading my mind of late.. Poignant writing, a Poet's Poem. Well said.. J |
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Alison 
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Oh my, Jimmy. It's have if you have lifted a mirror to show how I write at the computer. The feelings that I tap into, the sense of relaxation, ... you wrote this well, my friend. Love your poetry. A |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
nice...james |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
I know this feeling well Jimmy but can't say it as well. Ida |
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