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Sunshine
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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2001-11-11 08:14 AM


Revised

even now contemplation
of exercising
my right to
modify words of mine

leaves me blinking ~

what audacity

who should rewrite
pain of yesterday
or hope of tomorrow

if the me of now
refuses to think back
on the what of then

did I slip so easily
from an old cocoon
into new wings

or fly so high
that the sun singed
all memory

of how I got
to where I am…

perhaps it is just not
worth it
to revise the truths
of yesterday
to please those who
would read it
today


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Professor Gloom
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of Depression
1 posted 2001-11-11 08:21 AM



“to revise the truths
of yesterday”

What truths are there of yesterday
That which came and past away,
Even if you’d revise the word’s play
There is nothing of truth left behind
Except for that which dwells in mind
And tainted revisions that today binds.

Gloom

Rex Allen McCoy
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since 2000-01-30
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Sippin a Timmy's in London
2 posted 2001-11-11 10:03 AM


Sometimes I read back many years and relive a state of mind
Some emotional thoughts from yesteryear that remain close, personal and unshared
~
I echo your feelings

bad little dog
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city pound
3 posted 2001-11-12 06:46 AM



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4 posted 2001-11-12 08:58 AM


If your present journey affords a better view, don't look back.
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5 posted 2001-11-13 07:23 PM


It is not worth revising the words of yesterday for without them there would be no real you!  However, it is important to look forward and write the words of the future for in them there is hope.  

~*~  Carpe' Diem  ~*~

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