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I so agree that memories can be the cruelest emotion! Especially if it is an unwanted memory or one of a peculiar origin! AWESOME poem! sam

posted by sam444 on September 13, 2010 at 7:11 AM | link to this | reply

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Taps never mind, better to be dead than buried.

posted by C_C_T on September 9, 2010 at 10:51 PM | link to this | reply

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Nice one Jay

posted by C_C_T on September 9, 2010 at 10:49 PM | link to this | reply

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Lo lauren, yes but your memories are happy ones which you can cherish, but sadly never replace with happier ones. I think one should value past happiness shrug one's shoulders at what ever life throws up afterwards. Although it is the only life we have so and I am a lousy one to tell you this try to enjoy the present think positive you have lovely children, you are clever and have had to struggle as we all have at times, It could have been worse. End of today's lecture. I mustn't get up so early.

posted by C_C_T on September 9, 2010 at 10:48 PM | link to this | reply

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Thank you poetipb, I've barricaded those doors, but I had to write my way out with tears.

posted by C_C_T on September 9, 2010 at 10:39 PM | link to this | reply

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Hi FS I guess you are right as usual, it does get easier though after fifty or more years.

posted by C_C_T on September 9, 2010 at 10:35 PM | link to this | reply

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I guess so Straightforward, I have felt that at times, but I didn't get to the embrace. Thank you for your observation.

posted by C_C_T on September 9, 2010 at 10:33 PM | link to this | reply

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Hi Bill I expect you are right it's just gone 6 am here and I am only two bananas into comments.

posted by C_C_T on September 9, 2010 at 10:30 PM | link to this | reply

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E,E. I do wish I loved poetry like you do, but I just seem to think in, well I have not thought about what I think I used to be always writing poetry in my mind but my mind demands a change these days. Happy journey and thank you for all your kind words

posted by C_C_T on September 9, 2010 at 10:28 PM | link to this | reply

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Thank you Simone. Be happy.

posted by C_C_T on September 9, 2010 at 10:23 PM | link to this | reply

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Goodness do you get drunk Sir, well I am a moderate drinker. DSM I confess I picked this off of a disk I did not read it, it was probably written in a time of bad scenes, but I was helping my brother upgrade a computer and was being grumbled at for not having the disks in one place and I was determining what age I wanted to be and I wrote something which I posted and had to delete because well I was getting into hot water accidently. So I am glad to read from someone who has lots of intelligence and I have an ingrowing toe nail which I am fighting as everyone says I should go to the toe nail doctor. Life's like that

posted by C_C_T on September 9, 2010 at 10:22 PM | link to this | reply

PS: but without thinking about something, we would never become aware of its non ...(good nite)

posted by jfm32 on September 9, 2010 at 8:42 PM | link to this | reply

i always seem to discover things as I'm getting drunk. In this case, what I found what I like about your witing is its creative destruction,
so there is always this dramaturgy going on between the apparent and its non, and I get the feeling of an internal rhythm of something known, but is necessarily a non-concept, which you seem to allude to in almost every line. In this sense you are not an easy read, and if words could be this foil agaist the void, is a good reason I shoud stop talking tonite.Its hard to think about nothing.

posted by jfm32 on September 9, 2010 at 8:37 PM | link to this | reply

Excellent poem! P{Rofound and drenched in feelings. One of your best so far :-) xoxoxo

posted by Sinome on September 9, 2010 at 8:35 PM | link to this | reply

and the "if only" still lingers if even in a glow (a glimmer).? CC - the protective mantle placed within a heart and a mind could hide the loneliness but, I don't think it would be able to hide it forever. Memories such as... could be torment and then yes, I so agree of the wisdom by accepting 'reality'...this was sooo good. Very 'real' and moving. Kept me involved and definitely - read it slow and aloud. EE

posted by elysianfields on September 9, 2010 at 7:56 PM | link to this | reply

CORNCAKE

J In this one you manage a gentle course through time down the lines sir. Excellent!BC-A, Bill’s RJLst

posted by BC-A on September 9, 2010 at 7:33 PM | link to this | reply

Chilling and embrace can sit together only with difficulty?

posted by Straightforward on September 9, 2010 at 7:19 PM | link to this | reply

Very tough it can be to come to terms with what has happened to us. I think that we are all effected in some way negatively about some sort of past episodes or episodes for that matter. The speaker comes to a wise conclusion though...

posted by FormerStudentIntern on September 9, 2010 at 4:00 PM | link to this | reply

I have always struggled with living in the now

I'm either in the past or the future but usually the past...

posted by poetjpb on September 9, 2010 at 3:08 PM | link to this | reply

they tell us to live in the now which is the most important yet the journey that brought us to now, well they tell us that is more important than the now destination. Confused....you should be. Have happy memories become seeped in sadness just because you cannot relive them again. well what was it all for. Be grateful for those memories and let nobody tell you to move on. what do they know

posted by spiderfly on September 9, 2010 at 2:00 PM | link to this | reply

Sometimes reality is not all it is cracked up to be