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Grubbymitts
Junior Member

since 2001-08-30

Posts 37
UK

0 posted 2001-09-01 05:29 PM

I Wish I Could…
For Gwen Lister

I live in a dreary town,
Where life can pass you by,
Everyday I sit here on this kerbstone,
And all I seem to do is sigh.

I wish I could time travel,
I’d go back into the past,
And I’d rewrite our history,
I’d be someone at last.

I’d share my thoughts with Plato,
Debate with Socrates,
And I’d kiss fair Joan of Arc,
Beneath the stars in a summer breeze.

I’d give Hitler a right good kicking,
Be the friend Marilyn needed most,
I’d wake up next to Audrey Hepburn,
And probably cook her some toast.

I’d sing at gigs with Elvis,
And act with cool James Dean,
I’d sail the Titanic in another direction,
Escape with Steve McQueen.

I’d go mountain climbing with Moses,
Give the Virgin Mary a nice, big room,
And I’d be there when Lord Carnarvon,
Opened the boy king’s tomb.

What about your life, Gwen?
I know I’d change that now,
I’d undo the things he did to you,
Make it all better somehow.

But it’s all just fantasy,
A little dream of mine,
A silly notion really,
As if I could turn back time?

So I’ll get up off my kerbstone,
Now the sun is going down,
Another day wasted dreamily,
In this lost, forgotten town.

Grot, Grub 'n' Grime - poetry for the undiscerning.

MARK V SHELDON
Member Elite

since 2001-06-21

Posts 3015
In a corporeal internship...

1 posted 2001-09-01 05:33 PM

Don't discount fantasy too quickly -- it has a very strange way of tansmuting into reality sometimes, especially if it can catch us off guard... Enjoyed.

-MVS

"It's all in the details -- the Big Picture always takes care of itself."
-MVS

vlraynes
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

2 posted 2001-09-01 07:58 PM

Grubbymitts-
   Oh...I'm liking this one LOTS!
   Wonderful thoughts you've penned here, my friend!
   Nicely done!

   Hugs,
   ~vicky

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

Tracey
Member Elite

since 2001-08-29

Posts 2808
where insanity meets breeding

3 posted 2001-09-01 09:03 PM

The day is not wasted when you come up with poems like this. I really like it

Tracey

If she who dies with the most toys wins, then can I have some toy boys please?

1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

4 posted 2001-09-01 09:09 PM

"What about your life, Gwen?
I know I’d change that now,
I’d undo the things he did to you,
Make it all better somehow."

what a kind thing to do...to change someones past hurts & make them better...helen

Grubbymitts
Junior Member

since 2001-08-30

Posts 37
UK

5 posted 2001-09-02 03:28 AM

I'm working on it. You never know...

Grot, Grub 'n' Grime - poetry for the undiscerning.

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