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Wasted Time
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere 
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I waste a lot of time. Seems as if I’m just sitting around with something on my mind. Instead of chasing cobwebs off my ceiling and the dust off everywhere, I choose to snooze. As I sit with my thoughts turning, feelings slowly churning, searching for words to express them. I cast a seine into the free flow, hoping to haul in an idea. Depending on the catch of the day, that food for thought gets digested into black and white. So all the time I spend idly pondering fodder for my poems I write is not wasted. It is invested in my passion. The true waste of my time I have come to find, is above and beyond and all up and in between the other thoughts I get. All my thoughts that are filled with regret, are of no use to me now. They are of the past. Impossible to change, no matter how hard I wish to go back and rearrange. The question is how to lay the regrets to rest. They belong behind me, it is for the best to let them go. The only feelings they hurt are mine. Hurting myself is a waste of time. LGR(C)8/3/20 |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
Lori, I love this! It describes the pursuit of writing in a powerful way. It reminds me that regret hinders present freedom of the mind. This is the most beautiful line! The image it creates makes me wish that I could draw! "I cast a seine into the free flow, hoping to haul in an idea." "How much is real? So much to question |
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Starmcneil 1955 Member Posts 174 Alberta, Canada |
Not a single words wasted in this powerful poem...reflection is what it takes to feel the muse flow with words to touch the soul of all...love this poem...so true |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Temptress, You do my heart good! I am so touched that you related to this. Can't ask for better than that! Thanks! ~L |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Starmcneil 1955, Your generous comment gave me goosebumps! Now how cool is that? Bless your heart! ~L |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
Hi Lori, poetry is a great passion, that can manage all kind of thoughts, your poem is deep, and bring some hope, I think, facing such personnal truth have a nice day yann |
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augustsky Senior Member Posts 828 midwest US |
Lori,Yesssss..so relateable, enjoyed peeking in on your thoughts.  Sky~ Sometimes..Miracles are just good people |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
My poetry is my own selfish way of bleeding out. It is pain within me that has to be let go....but once it is, I am responsible for keeping that door shut. Though I can now read poems from decades ago, I cannot do it without recalling precisely the grief that led to them, or without getting a lump in my throat, so suffice to say I do not look back as often as one might otherwise. Dangerous waters those are...and only with eyes focused where they need to be, looking forward, can I read from the past appreciatively and without reopening the scar tissue. Enjoyed the read. You should see the stack of half-finished poems that never will be finished I have precisely because I got out what I needed to and now, have nothing tying me to the need anymore. Michael |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Yann, You made my day when you said my poem brought hope. Thank you so much! ~L |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Sky, I guess you did kinda catch me with my pants down. I was feeling a little nakey when I wrote it. ~L |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Michael, I always debate about posting some poems as they may be too personal and unrelateable. I usually what the heck it up the old flag pole. I'm always surprised at the responses I get. ~L PS I got those too,Ii call 'em fragments. |
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Forlorn Angel Member Posts 143 |
I heard a phrase recently that goes "no time that you enjoy wasting is ever time wasted" Makes me stop to think for every moment that we think we wasted find one thing that we enjoyed about that moment and the moment won't be wasted. Just food for thought! |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
Wondering where you are.  "I know this love will tear me to pieces |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Temptress I've been around, here and there. Seems since I started back to work in August I don't have time for anything. Thanks for wondering about me ~L |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
Lori, It's good to see you around here. I know exactly what you mean as far as time and work. "I know this love will tear me to pieces |
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