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Not Meeting My Expectations
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Vintage Words .
The long telling cut down
to the short version means that
rose garden you were never promised
was full of thorns anyway.
.
If you were not being so
high and wealthy, you might
have seen two idealists, loyal
as puppies, not being paid
from tight fists.
.
I did not do it for you, I did it
all for me. I look back and smile
at all the freebies, the gas burned,
the ink cartridges spent to advance
literary art venues.
.
I smile and would do it all again
exactly the same, if it had not been
for all the bad ugliness of cracked streets,
the absence of direction.
.
Instead, there would have been nice
vacations around the globe, new shoes
and camping. I would not be me and you
would not be you because of me.
.
Lady A
09-18-12
Bravo!
The manipulation of language in this poem is among the most adroit I have seen in years!
Starward
Adroitness Back
I have just gotten back to reading comments and found so many from you.Wow dow! I am glad you are enjoying the work I have posted. I am working on autobiography and researching with family...but I will tap into all of your work because like satishverma on Starlite cafe I need a good read every so often. When? Hmmm. it is about time and having too many names/titles. I love writing is the all...Time is closing. I'm gettin too aged etc. Time to get in the last words...Lady A
I'm really enjoying your
I'm really enjoying your work.
Although I felt some struggle, at the same time this made me feel peaceful. Thank you for sharing.
Peaceful Struggle
Yes! It is about tension. Ideas at war from the ideation matrices. Closure. I seek closure because the world is tumbling again...Lady A
INCREDIBLE!!!!!! Profound!
INCREDIBLE!!!!!! Profound! Wonderful! I felt so many lines in my heart! I am beside myself with deep understanding and a reslease of sorts, thankyou for writing this beauty! Hugs SS
Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS
"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."
Profundity
I was feeling particularly deep today. Sent a four page single spaced letter to an inmate who wrote to me. I think I sent my life's story. Glad you liked poem. I wrote it fast with a few edits - You are the incredible one - Lady A