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Open Poetry #49

Here I stand

Walter Poe
Senior Member

since 1999-10-13

Posts 787

0 posted 2014-03-15 09:17 AM

I never thought I would live this long
Were the words that rang in my song
I thought I'd up and flown away
Ne'er sit and sing and see the day

I never dreamed I'd see this sun
Nor the kiss of each new bright morn
The Winds that should have taken breath
Should of pushed me over to a paupers death

Yet here I am as unhappy be
I'm still all alone in a empty tree
But winds blew and the branches crack
Yet here I stand still not on my back

I aint as good as I once was but I'm as good, once, as I ever was. - Toby Keith

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2014-03-15 11:08 AM

Walter,

"...carry on my wayward son
there'll be peace
when you are done..."
Kansas

Lori

Walter Poe
Senior Member

since 1999-10-13

Posts 787

2 posted 2014-03-15 11:28 AM

love that song

"Lay your weary head to rest
And you'll cry no more"

I aint as good as I once was but I'm as good, once, as I ever was. - Toby Keith

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2014-03-15 12:33 PM

Me too!

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2014-03-15 01:24 PM

I could have written this, wish I had.

~*~ Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.--James Joyce ~*~

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