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S Arthur Grey
Senior Member

since 2001-03-19

Posts 719
woven by a poet's loom

0 posted 2007-01-01 05:12 PM

               The Rule Need Not Apply

               This is the day
               the day that would have been
               the end and the beginning
               the day that could have been
               the day when everything changed.

               This is the day
               that should have arrived with you
               my morning of a new world
               my scrambled eggs for breakfast
               with a familiar voice
               in an unfamiliar kitchen.

               This is the day
               that could have been written down
               all day long in parallel verse
               of love letters across a sun lit room
               in reflections in a common mirror
               of silvered smiles.

               This is the day
               that did not arrive as eagerly planned
               the day when the permanent ink
               had long since dried in the nib of the pen
               before the papers could be signed
               this is the day when the hoped for future
               becomes merely the regrettable past.

                        s.a.g.  010107

1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

1 posted 2007-01-01 08:44 PM

this poem hits me
in my heart
and read it tear welled
do not give up on your dreams
the right thing ALWAYS wins out
do not just dream at night
let dreams take your day
to fill you and carry you
into tomorrow

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2007-01-01 10:34 PM

I just watched a movie called The Lake House....and somehow reading this made me feel like you had just watched it too. In your poem I don't feel the happy ending though...I'm sorry.

wredgranny
Member

since 2006-11-18

Posts 493
Ky. USA

3 posted 2007-01-01 11:40 PM

This is the day
               that did not arrive as eagerly planned
               the day when the permanent ink
               had long since dried in the nib of the pen
               before the papers could be signed
               this is the day when the hoped for future
               becomes merely the regrettable past.

Siyo S. Arthur Gray one dream ends to begin another,do not allow the dream to die simply allow the heart to soar.
blessings!

granny!

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2007-01-02 07:55 AM

wish I could say something other than "damn"

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

5 posted 2007-01-02 12:26 PM

  This is the day
               that did not arrive as eagerly planned
               the day when the permanent ink
               had long since dried in the nib of the pen
               before the papers could be signed
               this is the day when the hoped for future
               becomes merely the regrettable past.
tugs the heartstrings, yet written so masterfully....

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

6 posted 2007-01-02 01:08 PM

This is the day when I read a gr8 write

Poet, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.

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