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dgvarner
Member Elite

since 2000-05-13

Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida

0 posted 2000-06-02 12:19 PM

an old prize--
once treasured
now dusty and crumpled
a corner ornament
a cobweb collector
perhaps, one day
to be sold at a lawn sale
for a cheap price...
or put in storage
in the bleek
dark
depths
of a beaten box...
a slow death
a descent from glory
an old prize--
once recieved
with open arms...

--dgvarner

"A Poet's life is on written page; a scenario to take the stage--watch..." dgvarner

Jana Tovey
Member

since 2000-05-30

Posts 257
USA

1 posted 2000-06-02 12:33 PM

This is too sad that someone would feel this way (I hope you don't).

I would rather think of the old prize as a treasured antique valued for it how it was superiorly and uniquely crafted. It's value is 100 times what was originally paid for it and it will be passed down through generations.

Little_Spyro
Senior Member

since 2000-01-09

Posts 659
San Diego, CA, USA

2 posted 2000-06-02 02:38 AM

I just read a novel called 'Relics' about an old man who was already quite aged in his day...then finds himself eighty years in the future...and he was so good at fixing things and making things work in his time, but in the future he only gets in the way, always seeking for his own usefulness...

Yes, it's sad, and too many elderly people go through much the same torture (most go through it without the time-travel aspect, though)...

For all those people, I hope they find what they're looking for.

Yet another great work from dg!

Little Spyro T. Dragon

Jon Mewett
Senior Member

since 2000-03-04

Posts 1304

3 posted 2000-06-02 10:31 AM

This kinda sums up life in a way,sometimes.

Jon

vlraynes
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

4 posted 2000-10-10 04:14 PM

dg-
  wow!  you really got me with this one.
  NO, you are not just this, and don't
  let anyone tell you different.

  love you bunches,
          -vicky

"...until you have read the verse on his
heart, you have not truely met the poet."
-vlraynes

Dennis L. White
Senior Member

since 2000-02-17

Posts 1463
Michigan, U.S.A.

5 posted 2000-10-15 10:48 AM

Dg,
This sounds like a treasure that needs to be rediscovered and cherished as it once was!
Sometime we find old friends forgotten and we reclaim them and hold them all the closer so they don't slip away again. Thoughtful work here.
Dennis :^)

Moonbeams radiate
When the veiling cloud has passed
Playful shadows dance

Dennis L. White :^)

dgvarner
Member Elite

since 2000-05-13

Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida

6 posted 2000-10-15 10:08 PM

to all of you..thank you so much for your responses!!...youve all left me with such kind thoughts

yes, this is how i felt at one time..well, an on-&-off feeling for a few yrs..

but i think maybe we all feel this way at times..

i've since pulled myself off the shelf..have dusted off a bit..

again, many thanks for your wonderful replies!!

hugs, dg

"Don't MAKE Me come down there." God

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