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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2016-11-04 07:35 PM



I've stood in the center of storms
standing rock solid and unmoving
during the whiplash
of tremendous thunderstorms
and a twister or two
I refused to flinch
somehow knowing there is a place for me
away from the fleshpots
I've stood beside a long, lonesome mountainous road
around me
my threadbare coat
unable to keep out the cold
I refuse to shudder from winter's onslaught
many uncomfortable places I've been
refusing to bend
refusing to allow me to be consumed
somewhere in the back of my mind
in those bad days
I knew not to show fear or the tiniest movement
it would give up my whole

©September 9, 2016 / Jerry Pat Bolton

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

© Copyright 2016 Jerry Pat Bolton - All Rights Reserved
Jack Napes
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since 2014-02-22
Posts 290
Phaedra's Womb
1 posted 2016-11-04 11:59 PM


Much to digest for those who can relate. Everyone's take is unique, even those who have traveled similar roads. A "showing of fear" will get you challenged. There's a confidence required to make it on the streets and I know you know this intimately JerryPat. After all, you're here and you write about it well.

Touch, but don't look

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
2 posted 2016-11-05 06:30 AM


I think that you still have that same backbone letting you face your final chapters with mental vigor and honesty. If you didn't give clues to your age in your writing, your words would never give you away. So much of what you say are timeless truths. ~L
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