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Midnight Meditations |
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John Yaws Senior Member
since 1999-10-09
Posts 860Texas 
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Midnight meditations, often tend to be morose- I am quite familiar, and am quite well versed in those. It’s in the midnight hour that we tend to reminisce.. Of times when things were pleasant- and life was filled with bliss. In the lonely hours ‘twixt the sunset and the dawn- To the past mistakes we’ve made, our minds are often drawn. There within our darkened hearts, dwell atavistic fears, We tremble in our terror, eyes filled with unshed tears. Then we long for ignorance, “For ignorance is bliss”. I’d rather far..be ignorant; than well informed like this. The saddest knowledge I possess, within my heart and mind Is the solemn accusation: “The most horrid sins are thine”! Mine? Why , yes, I guess they are; for once I had my dreams- Not knowing dreams are foolish; I then implemented schemes... Whereby those dreams might be made fact, alas, I soon discovered- That time reveals the schemes and things, we once thought we had covered. Midnight meditations, they often precede choices- Insanity, and suicide, results of midnight voices... And yet I sit, night after night, and meditate alone- In bondage to my concious, until the night has flown. And with the sun, I rise to run, laps in the race of life- Make other choices I will rue, with which this world is rife- A good nights rest, is my request, as weary life goes on- I’ll sit and yawn, until the dawn, and meditate alone. |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Doesn't get much better than this. Excellent work. |
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caroline Senior Member
since 1999-08-16
Posts 1218http://members.xoom.com/belladona123/index.htm |
Your poetry is so wonderful, and always with a message that so many can well relate to. Great work, Mr. Gunslinger. ------------------ "Tread softly, for I have spread my dreams under your feet"~~William Butler Yeats |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Yes, this is true, but don't midnight meditations also make great sujects for poetry? Loved this poem Elizabeth |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
This is such a good poem Gunslinger. In the night the past returns and hides under the bed with the monster--sure of the child still in us. |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Ah, but your meditations produce works of beauty! Very well done! ------------------ Denise |
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