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REMEMBER THIS

Write it down
Recite it in verse
Bind it to your heart

All that is gold doesn't glitter
not all fools are quitters
a loser doesn't know from the start.
Those who wander are by no means lost
Lovers don't always depart.

New shoots won't allow the old to wither
Dying roots weren't blighted from the start
There's a gremlin whose crying
for the love that lays dying -
He now regrets playing his part.

From the ashes a fire will smoulder.
From the tears a river will dry.
Nature has a way of compensating -
reality will return to operating
and promises, await a new bye and bye.*

BB 8 November, '10

*slang term for "The Future" /

About This Poem

Style/Type: Free verse

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

About the Author

Region, Country: Tip of Southern Africa, ZAF

Favorite Poets: Too many to narrow down, but briefly :, AUDEN, T.S. ELIOT, DICKENSON, RILKE, THOREAU, RUMI ... the list is endless. Am inspired by many, especially those that live lives of "quiet desperation, and go to the grave with a song still in them" (THoreau)

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scribbler

14 years 8 months ago

this

I had to let this simmer and come back to it . I think I like the way you reversed so many trite sayings to make a poem which isn't..........scribbler

Bonitaj

Bonitaj

14 years 8 months ago

Thanks Scribbler

Yes! It is sort of difficult to take old hackneyed phrases and try and breath new life into them ;)
Glad you got the drift though!
Thanks for the comment!