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good Wetdogeared.
Only one poem. There are more from where this came from, my friend. The more one does the easier they become.
I find poetry writing (even the awful stuff- or goofy stuff) brings a clarity that is difficult to find in stewing over what can’t be changed- the past & the inevitable- though you are proof that ‘inevitable’ ain’t always what it’s cut out to be. (much better too, than using prose where logic messes everything up.)
I understand “blank my thoughts” (survival somethings depends upon it - but eventually we must and do come to terms with it as you did) but “washed away and guilt” can be overcome and does it ever really get washed away. But embracing our losses or our guilt or the things we’ve done in life (as you do in your poem)- just as we embrace our successes - is a key to understanding and learning and therefore moving on. It is so easy to try to ignore our problems but then they eat us up insidiously from the inside. How good writing your verse was for you! The proof is in the fact that you kept it so long. It was transforming for you and is the same for others.
We die each second and are reborn again to be reborn again - as Vonnegut says “and so it goes”. Such is life.
Go crazy. 22 years is a long time. Another opus.
Namste,
mhikl
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