The Lessons I Have Learned

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Open Poetry #23

The Lessons I Have Learned

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2002-11-26 11:20 PM

I sit here in my study,
And I ponder what to write.
It's cold and rainy out of doors,
A bleak November night.

Somehow I got to thinking-
Of those other, younger years-
Of anger that I've overcome,
And many wasted tears.

I thought about the people-
I met and sometimes used,
Of confidences that I've gained,
And cruelly abused.

I wish that I had known back then,
The things that I have learned.
And maybe taken some advice,
That I so lightly spurned.

Regrets are merely wasted time,
The past can't be undone-
We'll never once repeat a lap,
That we've already run.

I write to share the wisdom-
If so it can be termed,
And maybe spare some other fool,
The lessons I have learned.

wayoutwalt
Member Elite

since 1999-06-22

Posts 4870
TEXAS (it's all big)

1 posted 2002-11-26 11:21 PM

your a good teacher gunslinger, nice poem to show us your craft isn't for naught...

waving from above here in ft. worth

i know the nasty night

amusemi
Senior Member

since 2001-12-08

Posts 1262
A State of Disarray

2 posted 2002-11-26 11:23 PM

I absolutely adore your work.

It is truly an inspiration.

Let's hope I can apply your gift of wisdom in my life!

Aenimal
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

3 posted 2002-11-26 11:27 PM

Experience, there is no greater instructor.

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