This Poem was Submitted By: Regis L Chapman On Date: 2008-05-13 23:12:52 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!To Listen to Music While Reading this Poem, just Click Here!
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come back come back
all of you
come back
I need you
come back
I am sad
say hi
tell me I
am or am not
bad
I knew when
I started
we would then
be parted
for a time
what (and) I didn't
lie
know
was hidden
apiece
so glad
yet
I did
as I
was bidden
begotten
a peace
please don't
be mad
ease don't
come easy
eye close(d)
legs cross
gained
my loss
senses
past
stained
pretenses
in tenses
like had
come back |
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Copyright © May 2008 Regis L Chapman
Additional Notes:
This is a poem for everyone at TPL after two+ years of not posting, and also a feeling from re-connecting to the ones I left behind during my time at the ashram- family, friends and loved ones from the past.
There are many mixed feelings about such an endeavor both going in and coming back out again. Still, my heart has never been more open and my head/heart are synch'ed once again after a whole lifetime apparently apart.
This Poem was Critiqued By: marilyn terwilleger On Date: 2008-06-04 16:50:22
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 1.00000
Hi Regis....I read this poem a long time ago and felt some guilt for being one of those who gave up on TPL. That was never my intention. I have decided to come back to my first home and favorite of all the sites I have visited over the years. Thanks so much for this encouraging poem...tis good to be home.
Mariyn
This Poem was Critiqued By: Claire H. Currier On Date: 2008-05-14 21:00:35
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 1.00000
It is good to have you back my friend, it is also good to see you have not loss your talent for writing. Looking forward to your work ....God Bless, Claire
This Poem was Critiqued By: James C. Horak On Date: 2008-05-14 11:32:14
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Regis, it is indeed a shame people have left. But each and everyone had
done so of their own volition. Prior, there were many that came and went
leaving but one or two poems behind they had offered. Vastly more than had
not. Some whose poems were promising. And some who did mention quietly to
one or two of us why they had been "turned off" TPL.
Developing anything creative into success is not for the faint-hearted.
Those that believe hard work and honesty with one's own failings don't play
larger parts in doing so than, "I'll show you" gifts from the gods, are simply
beyond help.
These, however, become easily controlled by the entrenched if given flattery
and made nice with for the most superficial kind of ego edification. Both
invariably become opposed to anyone testing that superficialty by comparison
with standard or reference to biographical parallels with the lives of great
poets established as such.
They need and maintain ignorance as a way of protecting self-esteem.
I made a challenge to one such over an empty critique she made to a shopping
list of self-indulged self-pity. And we lost some "poets" and had several long
threads of nastiness over it.
But, Regis, we can either stand up to the truth and deal with it or we can
be just another child's, show and tell stage.
Where, when all is said and done, a critique comes to mean absolutely nothing.
And the critique given a shopping list and something you might labor over, has
no discernible distinction at all.
Is that what you want?
JCH
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