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Unfinished Starts
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Unfinished Starts |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California 
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Unfinished Starts Unfinished starts I look back through, Thinking I might just "write" today. For it’s come to pass nothing new Will touch this mind shaded to gray. Used to be black, used to be white, But never a thing in-between . Sharp edges to the words I’d write, My countenance: a polished sheen. Now, looking back, I start to see The pattern of words forming here, Mimicking life, at least for me, Efforts half-hearted, insincere. They stare at me, their creator. I but see the void in their diction. A squandered gift, I stand traitor, Sold out to sheer lack of conviction. All the preemptive feelings lost: Those things dreamt of, pages to turn… Now dead in me, anemic cost Of watching all that I’ve touched burn. We, as men, with beliefs instilled At early age, tend not to stray. Often wrong, will remain self-willed As all, once cared for, drifts away. Why can’t we just open that door? Stop pretending to know it all? The fear of learning one thing more Keeping us perched atop that wall. I look at each unfinished page, Abandoned to a changed belief, (When change should be growth, not a cage), And see I’m cause to my own grief. Michael Anderson 02/17/2019 |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
You illuminate the darkness with your poetry. Your words ache and yet I’m so glad to read you again. You have a way with expressing deep emotion that one can not help but feel. |
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Paul Wilson
since 2002-07-07
Posts 4711United States |
Michael... What a pleasure to read your poetry again. You touch my heart every time I read one of your poems. If you ever want to throw some of those un-finished ones my way I would gladly cherish them. Your thoughts and words amaze me...Paul ~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~ |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Great reading as always! Have missed reading you and this was an insightful pleasure. Don't be done so long next time  ~L |
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Gunslinger Senior Member
since 1999-10-09
Posts 901TX, USA |
Michael, Every writer goes through this malaise, but I have never seen a better treatment of the condition! Write on! |
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bbynams Junior Member Posts 49 |
I'm looking at which words rhyme. Just cut it off at "burn" and it's perfect. |
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augustsky Senior Member Posts 828 midwest US |
Poet Michael, seems we could all relate, & your close so insightful. Sky~ ~Don't Quit Your Day Dream~ |
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Poet In Pink Senior Member Posts 1066 MI |
~Michael~ A poem we all can relate to...Some more than others ~ Even in the dark your heart words bleed beautiful Alana |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Ah. My friend. Since I've come to know you, a Michael in your own right, I've come to know other Michaels...a Balladeer, a grandson, a boss or two, and a soon to be son by love. But you will always hold that place where I once worried over you, only to learn...this is how you survive...and I pray you will always be in my sight, in the blue pages. |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
I've seen a lot of growth in your poetry since I have been reading you, Micheal. A gathering of wisdom. |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Thank you all so much for the kind replies. |
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