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JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2014-05-10 01:38 PM

my legacy
ahhh . . . how will it sound
the good deeds
I have performed
the world knows naught
my poems
short stories, the novels
are succumbing to dust of the ages
looking back
I cringe with the knowledge
that my legacy will be
confined to those two lost decades
so . . . be . . . it

©April 10, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ How come abbreviated is such a long word? ~*~

[This message has been edited by JerryPat2 (05-11-2014 12:40 PM).]

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2014-05-11 10:04 AM

Oh baloney sandwiches! Your legacy is very much in black white and blue and your children!
You have books to leave behind (small % of the population can say that). You have, Member Patricius, more than just a few blue words here that will outlast you...And you have children.
I think most of your lost decades exists only in your memory, those people and places have already turned to dust.
You are still creating your legacy I believe.

Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2014-05-11 10:16 AM

Thanks for setting me straight. Truly. Thank you. It is amazing what goes on in a person's mind when he lives alone. Sometimes thoughts get overwhelmed and confused. I have to get out of this funk. Thank you again, Lori.

~*~ How come abbreviated is such a long word? ~*~

[This message has been edited by JerryPat2 (05-11-2014 12:45 PM).]

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2014-05-11 02:32 PM

those of us that "share the funk" can most certainly relate ... my 'reality' is a
daily battle against the 'dark wolves' of social obsolescence and de-realization.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2014-05-11 04:41 PM

Hah! "Social obsolescence." I like that phrase. My dark comes in the form of replaying those two lost decades, which Lori thinks is the wrong thing for me to do because they are gone forever into the dustbin of history. She's right of course.

~*~ How come abbreviated is such a long word? ~*~

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2014-05-15 11:55 PM

The lost decades will be forgotten. The words will live on.
Ida

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2014-05-16 07:03 AM

I know you are right, Ida, and I thank you for sharing your comment.

~*~ Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off. ~*~

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