The Swamp aka DUP

I'm grateful for you through it all
it's been a wild, beautiful ride
I wouldn't have it any other way ❤

great write...

love Brenda

But you're here.
And that my friend means a lot to a lot of fellow Dup swampies😆😚

Swamp rats we are
Everyone needs a home ...


Thx Rose

I'm not good at conflict but I don't run away from it either.
It's a morbid sense to fight knowing there will be light at the end if enough blood is spilled.  

My conflict with you was like that.  Then there was a beam of light and I  could suddenly see again.  Reading and rereading your poem "blue" helped guide my path.  I realized underneath all your violent ink was a heart being blown apart but it was a heart that needed help to heal.  Your ink is often more violent than I can handle so I skip those.  But "blue" and today's poem show your human side, the writer I need to read because these poems are the Brenda I used to know before the wheels fell off.

It's a swamp but I live there and it's a part of my DNA for better or worse ....

I understand dearest Poet I'm really making an effort not to write dark to get behind the real emotions and not hide from them...I won't run from conflict either we have that in common...

I'm happy you're seeing more of me in my later poems I have one last shot at saving my life...everything is on the line at the moment...my marriage everything...

I've been messing up so bad I have to stand and fight now or it will be over...I'm getting away from my source of temptation for three weeks...so I will quit... the real test will be when I return my hopes is that this will be enough time to get my head together...

I want to be me not this angry person hiding my true fears and emotions...

I'm afraid honestly...

well, that's it...

love Brenda

I salute your inner strength to fight .... for your life
The past doesn't matter
You matter

Courage my friend ...

thank you Poet ❤

You said a lot without having anything to say. Once the liquor passes and the coffee takes hold I shall pen as well.

No liquor last night
Slept well for once
Gotta remember that

Look forward to your ink

Great write ... know what you mean ...

Thx LDF

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to .....

I’m with you! I keep coming back. I can’t stay away.

Word Lust, what's to become of us ???

I’ll just keep coming back until the words aren’t enough.

me too ...

Superb write...DUP is like being in a storm sometimes...
Great to see you are getting on with Crim.

Dark Sun.

Thanks Dark

Crim and I worked through a lot of chaos but we understand each other .....

All good

Boss.. so glad you're here.. you inspire us all as well.. big like..





Dave

Thx

I think we all inspire each other in one form or another

Appreciate the nod and RL add

Says it all Poet

Doing what I know
Spilling verse and trying to stay out of trouble, often it's not so smooth a ride ....

I really feel this and agree with it,

I've often thought of how Emily Dickinson s 'admiring bog' seems a fitting comparison as well..
( An irony comparing people to frogs )

There's no censorship here
I love it and I hate it
There's always a price for No Filter

It's what we have
All you have to do is write

Thx PR

Thank you so much

That line does bring it home.  Every so often you get lucky like that....