From Robert Lee Brewer:
For today’s prompt, take a line from an earlier poem (preferably from this month) to begin your poem for today. For instance, I took the final few lines of my poem from day 12 to start my example poem below. So scan through your earlier stuff to figure out where to start today.
Between friends and relatives
ReplyDeletethe line can blur blur in a haze
of who is who in our lives.
Relatives are not always friends
and we have friend we call
sister and brother our hearts
are so close - bound by more
than blood or relation.
It is said we cannot choose
our relatives but I believe we can
and often it is hard to discern
which or who are closer to us
share our feelings and have our backs
but I hope when times are tough
we are not forced to choose our loyalties
between friends and relatives.
(I took my line from the first poem under the prompt Secrets)
Very interesting, and I agree I have closer friends as sissters than I was ever with my actual one, alas.
Deleteeeerrr the less said about my relatives the better. music was considered as " bloody noise " and books were considered " a waste of time " when i was growing up. it was only when i met my musician friends that i blossomed - nice one bonita. hit a nerve here - love - paul.
DeleteIn Days Long Ago
ReplyDeleteIn long ago days
things were different they say,
And I wonder if that's really true?
Because I have read
what people have said
When theirs were the days of then.
And it seems they complain
of much of the pain
that afflicts us in now as well,
so I cannot be sure
that the long ago days
were really so pristinely pure!
I expect that they weren't
and that nothing has changed
except maybe fashions and such
so I guess I am blessed
with my presence in now
and I'm grateful I'm given so much.
well the music was a lot better in the old days, i know that much tash. the movies too have a nice weekend - love - paul.
Deleteyes we have been given much and some still don't appreciate it... what previously posted poem did you use to take your first line?
DeleteBonnie, I checked back and it was my poem Senryu Lament, I think it was day 14, lament poems
DeletePlease, friends, read the poem I added today to yesterday as well,Thanks!
ReplyDeleteweltschmerz is a german word meaning the real world can never satisfy the demands of the mind.
ReplyDeletefirst line is from my " temptation or obliteration " poem.
WELTSCHMERZ
you may lose a thousand battles in life
and be tempted by the knife
but come, let us talk no more of the past
but about things that last
the mind begs for so much
things the body can never touch
but........but........but.......maybe baby
we could be gentle man and gentle lady
the mind always demands more
than a reasonably clean floor
and a lying junkie whore
my mind demands a lady i can fight in shining armour for.
- love - paul.
love the poem but don't remember that first line from any of your poems. please we shouldn't have to go back and read all your previous poems... Tasha and Paul please not the previously posted poem from which you took your first line.
Deleteit's from " temptation or obliteration " i only wrote it a few days ago . i don't read my previous poems either ha ha - have a nice weekend bonita - love - paul.
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Deleteyou mislead us in your comment that you only wrote it a few days ago and insisted to me in text messages you didn't need to do one already posted. but this is already posted under temptation... why do you play games like that?
DeleteThis is an excellent poem!!! I have always understood that word to mean world sorrow, or universal regret. My family spoke German when they didn't want me to know what they were talking about, so I learned a bit of it myself.
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