Victorclaude

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driving into sunset

road -- taken its toll
and been kind

on my face light
has shone --
dark places seen
where no light shines

shriven wound's woe
joy and love received --
alike

driving into sunset
affords time to question
was something missed?
fanciful thought -- that

manifold pernicious
chattels --
wished different
road changes -- but little

while
fear reigns --

in little pockets
love waits
lives on

time passes
into sunset.

About This Poem

Style/Type: Free verse

About the Author

Country/Region: USA

Favorite Poets: Wallace Stevens, D. H. Lawrence, Charles Bukowski, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Percy Bysshe Shelley, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, Pablo Neruda, Joni Mitchell, William Shakespeare, Basho, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kelly Marie Hayner, Susan Wydville. D. Phillip Caron, Elizabeth Bishop.

Comments

Victorclaude

14 years 8 months ago

Rosina,

Glad you got to take a trip . . .

Thanks,

Victor

judyanne

14 years 8 months ago

what a beautiful analogy victor

i have fast become a fan of yours
'driving into the sunset' - you make growing old sound so graceful
again - nothing to crit
love judy
xxxx

Victorclaude

14 years 8 months ago

Well, Judy --

One thing I can say is growing ain't for wimps. I have aches and pains in places I didn't even know I had places. That's not quite correct because I know the anatomy as if I were an orthopedist, but I have always wanted to use that line. Thanks for the opportunity! I think living should be a graceful act, but I don't see a lot of people, by their acts, who would agree with that conclusion.
Anyway, glad you liked it.

Ciao,

Victor

Victorclaude

14 years 8 months ago

Shirley,

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the read.

Love,

Victor

Race_9togo

14 years 8 months ago

Victor,

You did that thing again, made time stop in the reading of it by taking simple words and making with them lines of poetry that mean far more than the mere sum of their parts.
As someone else here on the site said elsewhere not too long ago:-
I wish I could nominate.

Victorclaude

14 years 8 months ago

Jim,

"You did that thing again, made time stop in the reading of it by taking simple words and making with them lines of poetry that mean far more than the mere sum of their parts."

I kind of thought that was one of the beauties of writing, although I don't know what part of this piece you refer to.

Thank you, very much.

Ciao,

Victor

Victorclaude

14 years 8 months ago

Thank you, Jayne, thank you

Thank you, Jayne, thank you very much.

Love,

Victor