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Tramp Poet
Senior Member

since 2000-01-06

Posts 754
Could Be Anywhere...

0 posted 2000-04-19 09:33 AM

A TIME

There comes a time
  in each man's life
    when that decisions hard are made.
There comes a time
  in each man's life
    when that man is afraid.

A space in time
  of aimless kind
    a searching of our own.
A touching care
  a searching stare
    a feeling all have known.

There comes a time
  for each and all
    to wonder at the sky.
There comes a time
  when love we find
    and softly kiss goodbye.

     DanielJ.Burt
3/76 (all rights reserved)

(note:this is the first i ever got published
went the anthology route in the eighties...
isn't that a terrible price for vanity?
Now after thirty plus years writing this stuff
I realize, I don't care much about publication
like I once was obsessed with...now i write
simply because i have to if i want to keep
what ever sanity i have left at my disposal.
              bleeding ink as always,
                          djb

JOY 14
Senior Member

since 1999-09-22

Posts 1419
Wisconsin USA

1 posted 2000-04-19 06:58 PM

I'd like to get my work published, but I hope to also be like you and come to terms and say, "Hey it's okay if I don't, but I'll always keep on writing." Which, I know I will. I like this poem btw! (hee.hee.)

Joy

twinsgd
Member

since 2000-02-13

Posts 416
Ontario,Canada

2 posted 2000-04-19 10:30 PM

Good poem bleeding.
I'm thrilled to be published right here in the pub.

Jack

PrincessPoet
Member

since 2000-04-15

Posts 133
Long Beach, Calif.

3 posted 2000-04-20 05:17 AM

Bleeding I Like this Poem.

And, sometimes it's just knowing...
That your work is out there, is satisfaction
Kinda of like leaving your mark in the
world
I think of it as others knowing who u really are.

Your failures in life come from not realizing your nearness to success when you give up.
-Yoruba Proverb

Poetry & Friendship,
PrincessPoet

Lost Dreamer
Member Elite

since 1999-06-20

Posts 2464
Somewhere near the Rainbow

4 posted 2000-04-20 08:03 AM

Excellent poem, glad you shared it here with us.

Tramp Poet
Senior Member

since 2000-01-06

Posts 754
Could Be Anywhere...

5 posted 2000-04-20 09:27 AM

thank y'all for your kindness, input and welcome! Not a very auspicious beginning
to post something with a typo..(that-should not appear in line three} but i am training
some new voice recognition software that hasn't quite figgered out my Okie accent...
If y'all don't mind i will continue to share
both archive and fresh work...

bleeding...

"Tis ink coming from his arm,
Captain!"

kaile

Member Ascendant

since 2000-02-06

Posts 5146
singapore

6 posted 2000-04-20 06:56 PM

dear daniel, with such a wonderful poem,frankly it's no wonder that you got published

")

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

7 posted 2000-04-20 08:49 PM

Very nice, Daniel! Yes, please keep sharing here with us! I've ejoyed everything of yours that I have read in the past!

Denise

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