You know Jeff, your not going to be able to sleep tonight. Your mind is just going to keep spinning with rhymes and rhythm now that you have started. If you do make it to sleep, you're just going to dream it.
Yes, go ahead and use the title. Thanks for the opportunity. I have Mt. Dew to accompany me along the long road of rhyme and reason. I will sleep sometime.
You're doing fine work, Jeff, I say as one poet to another. Shout out if the load gets too heavy, and I'll throw in a verse or two myself. But I don't want to 'jack your thread :-)
You're doing fine work, Jeff, I say as one poet to another. Shout out if the load gets too heavy, and I'll throw in a verse or two myself. But I don't want to 'jack your thread :-)
Robt.
Thanks Robert, sounds good, feel free to write for any of them, and I will still plug away. Jeff
In reflection of my inner mirror,
My veiled emotion can show no fear.
No expression of pity or pride,
It is my discretion how I feel inside.
Peer expectations clutter my way,
Will my resolution bend or sway?
Though life's expeditions might be steep,
My thoughts and apprehension I hold in deep.
She is aeons old, and wise beyond compassion.
My spirit grows by measure that she gives:
a knowledge that all paths will come together
in stone and mist, and in that mist she lives.
She is fleet hoofbeats far across the plain
of man's beginning, endless waves of horse
flowing like some primordial sea to sweep us
across remembrance on our mortal course.
Flowing like some vast sea. And I float now,
vague and adrift, in deep currents down her eyes,
losing myself, remembering how I will
(when my time comes) fade into misty sighs.
I'd be honoured if you still have energy Jeff or Robert. She's a little broken dog...so much suffering yet retains her trust in humans. She has such old eyes! A co-worker has adopted her.
...What's his name, Lee? I might take a go at him later, since I failed in my editing of the image :-)
R.
I haven't considered it a "failure". I've just been patiently waiting for your masterpiece! ;-)
His name is Stephen. Not Steve, or Stevie, but Stephen not shortened or abbreviated in any way. A good strong name! He's named after my best friend from college who passed away from malignant melanoma shortly after I graduated.
