Regret as a Shawl
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Unfold the edge of night
and let the light enter
the caverns of your space
The echoes of loneliness
have long been buttressed
by your denials of love
Your heavy breathing
vaporizes suggestions
that have played you
against yourself
relieving you of burdens
carried like crosses
carved from glaciers
Truth has stalled between
your lips as an eternal pause
waiting for a rush of fresh air
to push it out and into the
world you have always imagined
Delay is no longer your forte
adjust to the presence of being
that lives in the shadows
that you yourself have cast
thru dreams of what could've been
And open your self to the reality
that makes you what you truly are
and not some shadowed ghost of
what might have been....regret
does not wear well upon you.
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Cecil B. Lee
(on regret)
(on regret)
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Allow not destiny to intrude upon Now
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Allow not destiny to intrude upon Now
Re: (on regret)
the first two short stanzas set the poem in motion, and the rest moves us along
as the narrator questions whether one has become all he can be
the poem has a nice flow...no snags to get hung up on.............
as the narrator questions whether one has become all he can be
the poem has a nice flow...no snags to get hung up on.............
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading
you may end up where you are heading
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Re: (on regret)
birth pains of a notionAnd open your self to the reality
that makes you what you truly are
nice work Cecil, liked this one a lot.
empathy is a bitch
"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect" Santayana The Idea of Christ in the Gospels
Re: (on regret)
Thanks, Steve... I appreciate it.
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Allow not destiny to intrude upon Now
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Allow not destiny to intrude upon Now
Re: (on regret)
Many thanks, Jack. Glad you liked it.jackofnightmares wrote: ↑October 27th, 2019, 1:35 pmbirth pains of a notionAnd open your self to the reality
that makes you what you truly are
nice work Cecil, liked this one a lot.
empathy is a bitch
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Allow not destiny to intrude upon Now
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