This is Life

When I wade out and into the green 

wash of antiquity’s womb

a little too far perhaps 

from the comfortable reach 

of beach, I sense her 

growing apprehension 

to whether … 

the geography of sixty 

might be too rugged, 

my reluctance to accept 

the ever-widening crevasse 

between now 

and memory’s cache 

of herculean pursuits … 

Though this is life … 

The appetite to consume 

the sun and 

stretch 

to the breaking point 

the limited confines of space 

I’ve been allotted before 

being swallowed. 

Ken e Bujold

Reviews

[Lorry]

Ah, I see what you've done here Ken. You have placed your tongue firmly in cheek, to divert us away from the fact that it is not a delusion that we are awesome and should be worshipped as God's, but to hide behind the jocularity the simple fact that we are indeed awesome and should be worshipped and adored, just for simply existing.
I was just saying that very thing to my psychiatrist, here at the asylum for the criminally inane, but he just kept saying "yes yes" and something about increasing the dosage, before throwing me back into my special suite with bouncy wallpaper and wraparound jacket.
He must have meant my dosage of awesomeness has increased! 😊
Ps... Stay awesome, just like me😊

[Ken e Bujold]

:) i would show this to my minder, but am ever mindful of her most likely conclusion. "This cafe you frequent so much is full of enablers, fools as willfully mindless to exponentially increasing risks to limb and wife's sanity" ... and so banished I be from scribbling on the walls. Hence I shall keep your kind review under lid, and only take out to cherish when the minder is asleep.

ken

[Lorry]

Enablers are like stabilisers for our egos! 😊

[hiren]

You must meet psychiatrist, for the fool you are. Changing mind like your underwear, b*****d, how you are mean , you must be with cops, as you are threat to society.

[Lorry]

Ken, ignore this twat. Just another troll mental patient.

[Ken e Bujold]

i long ago gave up on online nasty's. have commited enough sins through my real journeys for which I take blame and paid accordingly. certainly not going to let unknowns add to the soul's karma. if anything i sort of had a chuckle at the comment. whats a life when the first post you make on joining a site is to flame a stranger(s) for sharing a chuckle over a poem. :)

[Lorry]

I just put it down to some people being nutter than an explosion in a snickers factory 😊

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn..]

Ken,

This is a powerfully poignant (to a 69 year old fart from a fictional town of Smalltown, Texas) piece of excellently written Poetry ... It, the above poem that is, touched every part of my sanity seeking mind that is relegated as resigned to the reality that, like my poor late Wife of 49 years, I shall not always reside above ground, but, one day, beneath it ... Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, go for broke, but die we must ...

Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

[Montag]

'before being swallowed'

My hope is to become so unappetizing, rather than being swallowed, I'll be spat back out.

Nice poem Old Timer.

[Dave Brown]

If it was not such a sorry scenario, the consequences of ageing are almost humorous as we hopefully attempt to keep floating as far as we once could

[W. Barrett Munn]

The realization of the changing limits of possible is one of the more difficult aspects of the aging process, It seems it's not until the breakng pointis reached and we're slapped down do we grudgingly admit we aren't what we once were.

Winston

[Ken e Bujold]

so true. This one had a working title of "St Peter's Pool" which is a mind-blowing beach in Malta. Few years back M and I on vacation and I just happened to float a little further out to sea than she thought advisable. Looking through passport the other day, in prep for trip in Oct and i happened on stamp that triggered this stroll along memory lane and up into the rafters of my own mortality.

[W. Barrett Munn]

I understood the self examination and grudging acceptance. It is another fine piece of writing.
read moreI understood the self examination and grudging acceptance. It is another fine piece of writing.

W