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Where Was I. . .? Seems you've all been busy at play Haven't missed me for even a day Not one single mention did I find That you had my whereabouts in mind I see now through all the previous buzz Just how really important I was. . .Not! I was forgotten even before I'd left My absence was not noticed, I am bereft You'd built my poems up in my mind I believed they were somehow sublime With words of praise and bits of love That fit my ego like a glove I supped on your morsels. . .so well done Chewed on your entree of steak. . .grade #1 Delighted in your desserts. . .so sweet Drank the after dinner wine. . . so deep I rose from the table of critiques. . .so satisfied Paid my check leaving a huge tip of pride Hurried home so I could deservedly bask In a celebratory, still full, brandy flask Dreaming of hopes and wishes to come true Giving credit for the "awareness" of it all to you For if I'd never posted my poems here I never would have been able to hear All those good things that I now can see Written to others like they were to me So, from my cloud, shot down to earth I've regained my common sense and mirth Thank you all for helping me see I'm nothing special, I'm just "me." © 5/16/2000 by Donna Friedrichs |
Additional Notes:
My Dear Friends. . . All of You,
I have missed being here and doing what I love doing and all of you so much! ! !
You just don't know !!!
Or. . .maybe some of you do know who are as addicted to this place as I am. . .:O}
I am making my re-entry to the site in what I hope you all will consider a playful fashion. I have seen a bit of humor here and it seems to be catching. LOL
My absence from the site since Monday evening, at 6 PM, May 8th has been due to bleeders in my eyes from my Diabetes. I could not see the computer screen clearly enough to read and participate.
It has also been so-o-o-o frustrating not being able to see. I could not even see well enough to recognize and find the food on my plate. ACK !
Thank God it is beginning to clear up and the doctor says it should be even better in the next week or two so he may not have to do a `wash` of the eye surgically to wash the blood out.
Last night I was finally able to read some of the poetry I have been missing by copy/pasting it to an email body and enlarging it to about 28 font size..
This place is so addictive!!!
And I love you people here.
That is why I am writing this note to tell you this poem is not meant to upset anyone. It is a friendly poem. :O} Please take it that way.
I don't want critiques on it to change anything.
*I don't begrudge anyone their share of praise. . .(like it may hint in the poem)
we all deserve it and NEED it for encouragement. . .
I have loved every bit of the critiquing you all have done on my poetry. It has been helpful and I have learned so much from it all. And. . . of `course` I love the praise that sometimes goes with it.
Doesn't each one of you? :O}
Thank all of you who have taken the time to read my poems and felt they were worth commenting on.
I may have been taking my
critiques much too seriously. ~¿ô
Nah-h-h-h-h- you think? :O}
Anyway I am glad to see the poems that are coming in and the turn to some humor and all. Keep up the good word guys.
Love you all... Donna
***I know this `additional note` is probably longer that the whole poem, but it has been a whole 8 days. . .
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