Soon,
I shall be old
a knobbly thing
all angles
slowly healing contusions
and bones,
My eyes will be watery and weak,
my hair wispy and white,
from my pen,
only bitterness shall flow.
and here, as in before,
I shall apologize
I shall let them know
that I was here
inspired by the cattle in the fields,
the cats lying with half shut eyes on the banister,
stealing images with my pen
from the endless bombardment of my memories
just to let them know that I was here
in the middle of it all
dissecting them,
and if I should be Peter
and deny
what of me then?
what old man would you have me be?
shuffling from door to door,
his wrinkled papers disordered in his small
arthritic hands?
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Written July 31st, 2003
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oh and the reason i kept saying cock up there . is because it never failed i was always the one assigned to read that passage at the maundy thursday service .. that and anything that had breast in it i seemed to get ... i forgot to put that up there ..
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i like this one .. i like this journey. the watching of history by the poet - the titles are really growing on me ..and i love that description of being old .. and having peter here .. have to deny 3 times by the time the cock crows though to truly be peter ..and don't see cocks here ..just cats and cows. peters interesting .. paul more though.
never been to appomattox only civil war stuff i've done is gettsyburg. i fell in love with that place .. had a feeling that i had been there before and i was never. .. kinda a deja vu about a white farmhouse .. okies. i'm tired. thats all for tonight.
alice gets applause just because she's alice.
Edited on Nov 21, 10:34 p.m. because ''. -
Keep shuffling.
This is good stuff.
Desiree -
I read recently... being a poet "is like living twice" :-)
Actually, i think its my way of becoming "timeless"... and yours too i believe.
I'm loving these new posts today... which book is this in ? :-)
~ Wendy
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that I was here
inspired by the cattle in the fields
watching : inspired by = poet seeking muse.
Your alteration has made it clearer for sure, I would even think that an alteration to that one word would have added clarity to the original wording.
Works much better now...and would be perfect left just as it is..good stuff.
Edited on Jul 31, 7:22 p.m. because ''. -
Your stuff is always different.
"and if I should be Peter
and deny "...Cleverly done...
Your word choices are really interesting, and you loose me a little with the cats and the cattle, although they add texture to this man's life. Retrospection, memories...
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