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Open Poetry #50

Lessons I Have Learned

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2020-11-21 09:37 PM

I sit here in my study,
And I ponder what to write.
It's cold and rainy out of doors,
A bleak November night.

Somehow I got to thinking-
Of those other, younger years-
Of anger that I've overcome,
And many wasted tears.

I thought about the people-
I met and sometimes used,
Of confidences that I've gained,
And cruelly abused.

I wish that I had known back then,
The things that I have learned.
And maybe taken some advice,
That I so lightly spurned.

Regrets are merely wasted time,
The past can't be undone-
We'll never once repeat a lap,
That we've already run.

I write to share the wisdom-
If so it can be termed,
And maybe spare some other fool,
The lessons I have learned.

[This message has been edited by Gunslinger (11-22-2020 11:56 PM).]

Paul Wilson

Member Elite

since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

1 posted 2020-11-22 11:34 PM

John...Great words of wisdom. Like the old saying the older we get the smarter we get.
Enjoyed reading you...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2020-11-25 12:22 PM

Wise words.

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