We’re so conditioned, so primed for the inevitable that we don’t want to give happiness a chance. The beauty makes me impatient. Bring on the ugliness, the gore. Now that’s more real, more convincing! Appreciated very much, Jacob!
Posted 6 Years Ago
6 Years Ago
i think sometimes we do feel only the ugliness is real...that is so sad, isn't it?
th.. read morei think sometimes we do feel only the ugliness is real...that is so sad, isn't it?
You paint a beautiful image in your first two lines. However, when your heart has had enough knock backs, you won't see that beauty in quite the same way. I reckon we are talking people here rather than trees. Well penned Jacob, much feeling conveyed here.
The coldness and reality doth bite. We learn through time the transparency of beauty, by knowing regret. Isn't it a pity that time and experience can alter the appreciation of a beautiful scene, by knowing that what we have thought of as beautiful in the past, cannot be so when you have lived to see its flaws.
The scene you paint is still beautiful though, for all that experience.
Originally from Bronx, NY, I live in Carbondale, Illinois...teach English at a community college and have been writing and publishing poetry since 1970. I am here to read for inspiration from other po.. more..