Nice Poem Bram. I hope you have a good night. Take care.

very moving, Bram!

If i were a dog
and you were a flower
Ild lift up my leg
and give you a shower..



ok its childish but It still makes me smile
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ok an original.. Painman2009 c 2013..

The day has come, the days has gone
to sleep the night and face another one

Time is fast and Time is slow
be part of it all or watch it all go

So pray for you and pray form me
then whats done is done ,and is what will be.




>> not one of my best written <<

In the same ... vein ... (heard from a friend in my jr. high school days)


Blood is drippy
Blood is red,
But without it,
You'd be dead!



I don't know why it stuck in my head all these years!

haha SloRian! Thank for the two little funny ones, made me smile

I liked your original one too, I rather liked it...

Bram.

Late Lament

Breathe deep in the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy's spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is gray and yellow white
And we decide which is right
And which is an illusion?

~ by Graeme Edge, The Moody Blues

Sorry painman, just realised that I forgot to thank you for your original poem you posted. I really liked it - it takes a lot of skill to fit so much feeling and thought into a short poem, but that was pretty impressive! Keep em coming

Vrae, thanks for yours - It's not one I recognise, always nice to find something new!

Take care everyone, and keep writing. I love reading your creations

Bram.

Do you feel that way too when you put on makeup? (if you wear makeup)? For me, it's always hard - I've aged at least 20 years these last 6 years since we moved to Arizona, so looking in the mirror is hard in itself - it reminds me of all the awful stuff I've been thru since moving. Also, putting on makeup symbolizes getting up out of bed (where you can at least groan in peace) and starting to force your body to do things that it doesn't want to do but most everyone else can do with ease. I really DO feel like I'm painting a corpse, but my daughter likes it, so I do it. I was worried the "poem" was pretty dark, plus I've never written poetry since I was forced to in school but it just kind of came out as I sat down and started typing, and one thing that's so helpful here is that people understand the dark stuff.

Yes I do . I've aged a lot in the last two and a half years. My skin has developed lots of dark patches and age spots, and I look like someone has taken my face, balled it up like a paper bag, and tried to smooth it back out! My hair has also got coarse, thinned a LOT, and has got very grey at the temples, sides and crown. I'm only 42! Before this, I used to think I was ageing quite well... Being in pain all the time has a lot to answer for.

I wrote a bit of poetry in my late teens and very early twenties, but not since then. I've been writing a novel for a few years tho, and although mostly positive and hopeful, bits of that are dark. I'm a firm believer in getting the dark stuff out of your head - I used to write stuff down and then burn the paper. Kind of symbolic and healing. I like putting it in poetry though, as it requires more concentration and creativity too, so it's not just a dark emptying process but also the birth of something too. Even if that something isn't quite what you hoped by the end!!

Today I keep dropping things and having to bend down to pick them up. I can no longer do that quietly! Oh the joys! Some days I feel about a hundred, others only about sixty

Take care everyone and have a good day if you can.

Bram.

I Want To Live
By RSD RENEE

I want to live
I want to try
But when pain strikes
I want to cry

It hurts so bad
Why does it so
I wish I wish
The pain would go

I wish I wish
I'd feel okay
And that good health
Was here to stay

But here pain stays
Right here with me
I wish I wish
That it would see

I want to live
I want to try
So go away
And say bye bye