Epigram On My Younger Self

An only child, left to my own narrow devices

(my older cousins did not care to play with me)

I look to books for new companionship (the prices

paid later) and, through them, shyly met Poetry---

and she reached out for this awkward nerd unabashedly.

 

Starward

 

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Nerd is such a positive like

Nerd is such a positive like many cycles we don't always appreciate who we are and what made us or what we've overcome. Glad poetry was such a wonderful  crutch. It's been mine all my life. 


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."

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Thank you for your comment,

Thank you for your comment, much appreciated.  I can now see those days in the context of my life, which is a bit clearer at almost 60 than at, say, 20, or 30.


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