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Open Poetry #49

What a Pity

Cari
Member
Posts 411
Englnand

0 posted 2016-05-04 09:51 AM

In my youth I had all the answers
Wielding the sword of simplicity
To the vagaries of life
With absolute conviction
Then I grew up

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

1 posted 2016-05-04 11:33 AM

Ha! The more my eyes are opened, the more I wish they never were... A pity, indeed.

Michael

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2016-05-04 11:40 AM

Eh . . . Many of us are in the same boat, Cari.

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

Ari Squire
Member
Posts 488
In The Phallus Lane

3 posted 2016-05-04 05:22 PM

Could be that your last line contains your first mistake. It can sneak up on you when you're looking elsewhere.

Keep kicking the can even when no one shows up.

More feelings and fewer words please

Cari
Member
Posts 411
Englnand

4 posted 2016-05-04 05:42 PM

Yeah, in your teens when girls were a box of chocolates, one is nice, but there’s a hell of a lot left in the box. Then off to the Emerald Isle where the old girls dragged their bloody cats in when we walked by and a second hand Playboy Mag isn’t the same is it?

Pete_W
Member
Posts 185
Scotland (UK)

5 posted 2016-05-08 07:42 PM

Reading this I wonder if we grow up only to learn how to over-complicate things. Thanks, a thought provoking read.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

6 posted 2016-05-10 06:49 AM

Growing up is a choice, some people just grow older. It is hard not to get jaded by life. Harsh realities are hard to accept and harder still to understand sometimes. Still, in all there is that inner child that would take us by the hand and lead us to those roses that bring us wonders of life and uplift us. ~L

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

7 posted 2016-05-10 09:06 AM

Me - I'm still waiting for that moment of revelation - I've grown up! , yet secretly wishing I'll never see the day . . .

enjoyed...

j.

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