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You Were There, and other poems - 2. Studies

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Poem No. 2

 

There comes a time when love of a place

seems almost as bad as hating it.

When that happens, the best thing

is to leave what you love,

before you both find it to be hate.

 

 

 

Poem No. 3

. . . Three Studies for Poems on the Same Inspiration . . .

 

1st Study

Tanka:

 

. . .

in feelings of soft spring air,

where the flowers seem

contused by the hard peoples’

stare . . . .

 

2nd Study

Lyrics:

. . .

the fullness of the season,

and the softness of the blossoms;

my not wanting to hate,

but the egg-shell intolerance

are in all their stares.

 

3rd Study

Sonnet Sketches:

 

- thoughts of bitterness after all this time

of shoganai living.

- the beauty and promise of the flowers I

can see around me. Promise, the ume and

tsubaki; promise, the blue-nosed foxtails; and I so

hard moving by, but yet not unmoved by them.

- violence and bitterness at they who

still to this day look fragile-eyed

at me.

 

 

 

 

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Parker Owens

Right away, Poem No. 2 is in sympathetic resonance with my feelings of the past week or more. The second study and its eggshell intolerance speaks to me with a clear voice, too. You have waited to post these poems and sketches for reasons known best to yourself. However, I can truly say they arrive to me at a time when I need to see and hear them. Thank you. 

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ReaderPaul

@Parker Owens noting of eggshell intolerance spoke to me greatly, as well.  I see so much of it in the area where I live.  While I see a bit of improvement, it is seemingly at a slow snail's pace.

A considered poetry set, with some hope but also pointing out the world has much progress yet to make.

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On 5/12/2024 at 9:38 AM, Parker Owens said:

Right away, Poem No. 2 is in sympathetic resonance with my feelings of the past week or more. The second study and its eggshell intolerance speaks to me with a clear voice, too. You have waited to post these poems and sketches for reasons known best to yourself. However, I can truly say they arrive to me at a time when I need to see and hear them. Thank you. 

Thanks, Parker. Your generous comments prove once more that poetry can speak to us as individuals, despite the circumstances around "why" they were written (and when . . . ). These are old poems, starting out in 1994 when I was still living in Japan

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On 5/12/2024 at 9:49 AM, ReaderPaul said:

@Parker Owens noting of eggshell intolerance spoke to me greatly, as well.  I see so much of it in the area where I live.  While I see a bit of improvement, it is seemingly at a slow snail's pace.

A considered poetry set, with some hope but also pointing out the world has much progress yet to make.

Thanks for reading and commenting, ReaderPaul. I left off a lot of personal info, which would have provided context for the poems, to see if the words themself could speak to anyone. Comments like yours make me feel these old pieces of mine may not be so bad after all. Thanks again  

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On 5/12/2024 at 9:59 AM, chris191070 said:

Thought provoking.

Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts, Chis. I appreciate it! 

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