Lyrical Laments - 2. Chapter 2 Resignation and Progression

On 6/19/2017 at 0:46 PM, Parker Owens said:

Your laments pour out your heartache like cold water from a bucket. You are neither a past fad, nor bad, and this peer, at least, will not convict you of anything. Your poetry eloquently speaks for you. 

Thanks, Parker. Open wounds are hard to assuage. Time helps my coping mechanisms. I needed to hear these words from you  

On 6/19/2017 at 2:47 PM, LadyDe said:

Depression is a bitch. I have conversations like your's and then I dig myself out of my hole. Glad you're coming back to life. 

Thanks, LadyDe. My shovel is in use  ... I won't give up or I won't give in  

On 6/19/2017 at 6:02 PM, dughlas said:

As with the ocean so too do the tides of life ebb and flow ... it's what it means to be alive. Stir the embers of that fire that burns inside, breathe some life into that flame. Namaste.

That's what I'm trying to do, dugh... each day is a challenge, but I'm choosing not to hide anymore xoxo  

On 6/20/2017 at 0:57 PM, ColumbusGuy said:

Two quotes for you, my dearest and staunchest friend:

 

Oscar Wilde said to be yourself because everyone else is already taken;

Popeye said 'I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam'.

 

Can't ask for better company than that...as we used to say, 'keep on truckin'.....

 

 

LOL... you really are the greatest, CG! Much love  

Please no more drama

I crave only peace

Amen to that, but unfortunately we seem to live in a world where drama (political, religious, personal, etc) seems to be the norm, whether in the public medias, IRL or on the internet. Making a mountain out of a molehill is the trend - or as we say in Denmark based on the story of H.C. Andersen : En lille fjer kan nok blive til fem høns! (One feather can turn into five chickens.)

I’ve been a good person

Since the day I was born

I want to claim the same, but I think I'll stick to saying I've been a decent person. But there's not much fame or praise for living your life quietly and decently.

On 6/27/2017 at 9:32 AM, Timothy M. said:

Please no more drama

I crave only peace

Amen to that, but unfortunately we seem to live in a world where drama (political, religious, personal, etc) seems to be the norm, whether in the public medias, IRL or on the internet. Making a mountain out of a molehill is the trend - or as we say in Denmark based on the story of H.C. Andersen : En lille fjer kan nok blive til fem høns! (One feather can turn into five chickens.)

 

I’ve been a good person

Since the day I was born

I want to claim the same, but I think I'll stick to saying I've been a decent person. But there's not much fame or praise for living your life quietly and decently.

Amen. Love that saying... one feather...  awesome, and so true, Tim  

I have spent my life always trying to do the right thing... I've carried the weight of the world as long as I can remember... I've only shared snippets of the trials I've had... don't want sympathy... it's just my personal reality... I consider 'decent' and 'good' the same, and if not much else, we earn the right to feel this. It is my self identity... and in a lifetime of mistakes, it is my one sure anchor... thanks for this, buddy... mad love and respect to my Robin  

even though the poem definitely have some pain underneath but I noticed the fight and spirit in it. Esp 

Self-pity is ugly

It can swallow you whole

Accept and move on

An eventual goal

in these lines...yes we need to accept and move onn...

Your words are your voice which speak of your inner feelings which can not be said!! And you always do a fabulous job of expressing urself so beautifully in your words!!! I will keep my fingers crossed that you overcome this depressing stage soon  

Thanks, Aviana! It's something I work on every day. This is a new frame of mind for me, and I am doing my best to navigate my way back to being myself. Poetry helps me, and these poems were both a cry and a declaration into that darkness. I appreciate your thoughts and your support, my friend... cheers... Gary....

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I need a new home

Where I can regroup

Regain passion lost

Exorcised from the loop

This poem and the next struck my heart. I did get a new home,  regrouped and gained passion again.  I'm also in a new loop.

The second poem is a journey in life, and I also have traveled that road.  

6 hours ago, raven1 said:

This poem and the next struck my heart. I did get a new home,  regrouped and gained passion again.  I'm also in a new loop.

The second poem is a journey in life, and I also have traveled that road.  

These poems are an extension of Chapter one's, and again uncomfortable for me because it brings back angst. I've said it many times, but poetry is a release I am blessed to have found. New loops are good.   Thanks, Terry.