“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” Robert Frost
I dabble in poetry from time to time, and this month I hesitantly leave the safe haven of prose to share samples of my poems. May the poetry lovers among you enjoy and the rest tolerate this divergence from the usual writing found here.
Tolerance
Ice
People
Wear the same
Eat the same
Do the same
Risk
Rejection
Suspicion
Ridicule
Friendship
Ice thaws
Drips away
Warmth grows
Understanding
On Being Involuntarily Retired
Life’s twists and turns
Lead to unexpected places
RIF – the dreaded pink slip
Sudden unplanned ending
Mourn for the past
Long for the old
The comfortable
The secure
Give it up!
Let it go!
Fly!
Embrace the adventure!
A new start – a blank page
Creativity long stifled
Rekindled with the joy
Of new-found freedom
Bonnie L. Ewoldt, 2010
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I think I feel each and every emotion hidden between the lines – beautifully expressed.
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Thanks, Dawn. Nice to hear you ‘got it’ with the intended expression of emotion.
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Nice to see some poetry–a poem can say so much in a few words–and I believe it needs to be read at least three times to get the full impact of the words. I enjoyed each of the three times I read the lines. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks, Betty. I sincerely appreciate your comments. The 2nd one is not formatted the way I intended, but after spending too much time fighting WordPress, I gave up.
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I especially like the second one, Bonnie! Strange how we can actually feel some of the emotions! Keep dabbling!
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Thanks, Dolores. That’s what I do–just dabble.
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Very nice. you should come to poets group
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Thanks, Carolyn.
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In general I do not like “poetic prose” as much of what modern “poets” put to page claiming to have contributed to that art. You are quite the opposite. Your sense of rhythm, incisive honing to the bone emotion (particularly in “Tolerance”) and colloquial voice climb the mountain of Ars Poetica to cry out from the Sage Age to give the populace a good shake if they’ve an ear to hear. Thank you.
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Thank you for you insightful comments, Frank. To borrow a term from social media–you made me LOL.
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Did not know you did poetry also. Beautifully done!
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Thanks, Georgia.
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