I envy writers who can put together a jagged delivery to match the way things often come to us in shards, the way you've done here, realistically. Your opening couplet slaps me across the face . . . since I often look back at what I spent so much energy on thru-out my life & now I don't give a damn about most of it! You said all that in such a beautifully brief way! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie
This is something brilliant. The short phrases, an explanation, a conversation with the spirit that surrounds mortality. You sum life up very brave and very real. Great Poetry
What intriguing ideas Chris. Sometimes revisiting old 'homes' is a big mistake- the past can be an alien and unfriendly environment.
Posted 12 Years Ago
12 Years Ago
...sometimes where you are - right then - is the only "home" you ever have... and you STILL can't go.. read more...sometimes where you are - right then - is the only "home" you ever have... and you STILL can't go back even one second...
To someone that doesn't write poetry, this may seem like a mess of words, but to me, and obviously many others, it speaks loudly. Very nice job, I love how you expressed this.
Posted 12 Years Ago
12 Years Ago
Sometimes you don't need a symphonic orchestra ... nor an elaborate stage production. I'm glad you .. read moreSometimes you don't need a symphonic orchestra ... nor an elaborate stage production. I'm glad you heard... take care.
It's a long way home. The first lines are huge truth. Sometimes, maybe most times, we miss the reoccurring, revisiting nature of those so many parts of then. They merge to become part of the present, the whole, a Gestaltist view. If you change the importance or impact of the part, does it change the importance of the whole? then or now?
Some are concerned, there is no "home" and other's concerned they are already "home" and that's all there is. Home is where the life is, where the journey continues, where and at the moment of considering all those "then parts"
I think in the brief simplicity of this piece you have brought to light this inner emotional perspective and given it a voice and an audience . nice writing.
Identity is thrown into the air as is a clear sense of time on this wayfarer's journey home, or grave ward. He could be a droll character out of Beckett ruefully undermining his own ambition of getting anywhere: home, right!
Nobody can, but we arrange our lives to give the impression that we do return from where we departed.. read moreNobody can, but we arrange our lives to give the impression that we do return from where we departed. Again to mention Beckett, 'habit is a great deadner'.
"Life is a terminal disease." All the doctors have basically told me so.
"Life is an adventure... Pain, well you deal. Thanks for being here. 06/21/2020
I'm back and working on. I've been.. more..