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whitbypoet1
Junior Member

since 2014-09-02

Posts 40

0 posted 2016-03-02 03:27 AM

Meandering through yesterday, I met myself again
Just sitting by the seashore writing poetry in the rain,
I was writing of tomorrow, of the people I might meet
On the quayside, in the market, or just passing on the street,
Then I spoke to my reflection, and I asked about his verse
And his lonely look reminded me about the poet's curse,
Though he scribbled lines down ceaselessly, his parchment still was blind
For a poet's words mean nothing unless they are underlined.

As I looked into my eyes I saw what I was meant to see
For all the poems I ever penned were calling back to me,
Just like whispers in a mirror, they were drifting on and on
Like clouds around a hillside that were there but now are gone,
With no thought of inspiration other than life's many days
I shook hands with my shadow and we went our separate ways,
We watched each other quietly as we grew far apart
Just two poets in a sunset with no ending and no start.

Then I wandered through the twilight with a smile upon my face
And I thought about tomorrow's golden summer silk embrace,
As I wondered if I'd meet myself returning from my walk
And on the bench below the Abbey we could sit and softly talk,
Of our many happy memories and our many bites of pain
And of mirror masked reflections that had let us meet again,
Then I'd stand up and I'd watch him drift upon his silver sea
Just another shredded shadow, just another piece of me…

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

1 posted 2016-03-02 05:46 AM

I like this poem.
Easy, and fun to read, with a classic tone.

The storyline keeps the reader involved, especially if they write poetry.

Thank you, whitbypoet

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Carl Sandburg

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2016-03-02 06:10 AM

Very, very well done, poet.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

jjote
Senior Member

since 2002-12-25

Posts 1088
Ontario, Canada

3 posted 2016-03-02 11:10 PM

Very whimsical, the images and the rhymes draw me and I can just picture myself soliloquizing with me.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

4 posted 2016-03-03 08:33 PM

nice...james

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

5 posted 2016-03-04 09:43 AM

This was a treat to read. ~L

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