Showing posts with label regrets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label regrets. Show all posts

Friday, October 18, 2019

OctPoWriMo 2019: Day 17: Do You Remember?

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Do you remember when we had all our lives ahead
In times before hope was replaced by dread
Do you remember all the sunshine days
Back when life was a place to play

The best of people in the world was my brother
Over him I'd never have chosen any other
 In the times before everything turned gray
Back when life was a place to play

Your sister became someone broken within
Who had no idea how to repair her sin
Your sister still wonders if we can return one day
Back when life was a place to play

I would have chosen you as my friend regardless of blood
My love for you is real, my brother, my bud
Can we turn back although our hair's gone gray
Back when life was a place to play?

~Cie~


Notes:
My brother is four years younger than me. I was there when he was born. He made his way into the world quickly.
As children, we were very close. But time, circumstances, and misunderstandings have driven us apart, something I would not have been able to believe could happen when I was a child.
Honestly, this is rather a vulnerable point for me and I would appreciate compassion if one feels the need to say anything.

Thursday, October 18, 2018

OctPoWriMo 2018: Day 18: Once Upon a Time


Once upon a time
In a world where everything seemed possible
I cast a spell of enchantment
I believed my prestidigitation
Would inspire fascination
In the souls of those sorts of people
With whom I wished to spend my time
But it was only hocus pocus
My magic was out of focus
And I was but the punchline
Of a rotten cosmic joke

~Cie~


Sunday, October 7, 2018

OctPoWriMo 2018: Day 7: Unsent Letters

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Unsent letters to
My younger self, with regret
It is not your fault
Your magic was too big for
A world which is graves of dirt

~Cie~


Sunday, November 30, 2014

Spectrum


 
 
Spectrum
 
In poetry I am able
To cryptically reveal the splendor
That hides beneath my secular skin
 
At first gaze I seem a plain person
With no higher ambition
Than to harvest what meager fruits I can
 
When I'm old and my back is bent
From toiling at physically difficult jobs
And the death rattle takes my last breath
 
When what little family I have is gathering
And the breeze builds and blows away
The scattered ashes of my body
 
These words will remain
For those who like puzzles
To try and decipher
 
The truth about a plain person
Who was more than she appeared to be
 
~Cie~
 
 
http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/wordle-189/




Imaginary Garden With Real Toads

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Interpreting St. Francis of Assisi in Haiku

http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2014/09/carpe-diem-special-108-words-by-francis.html

In spite of my faults
I hope you will remember
What I did with love

~Wanda~

We were given these words of St. Francis to interpret in a Haiku:
"Remember that when you leave this earth you can taken nothing of what you have received, but only what you have a given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage".