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Simple Life
Do you want a life
that is good and simple?
or do you want the poet's life?
Life on the outside, looking in
Outdoors, smoking a cigarette
in the cold.
Thinking of adultery,
while you watch
the family around the Christmas tree.\
Unpacking your self-esteem
Sticking within those in-between spaces
Emotionally raw, physically unavailable
Self containment at its most crippling
Waiting... Lurking...
A wraith with a pen and paper.
that is good and simple?
or do you want the poet's life?
Life on the outside, looking in
Outdoors, smoking a cigarette
in the cold.
Thinking of adultery,
while you watch
the family around the Christmas tree.\
Unpacking your self-esteem
Sticking within those in-between spaces
Emotionally raw, physically unavailable
Self containment at its most crippling
Waiting... Lurking...
A wraith with a pen and paper.
Published 13th Sep 2021
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14th Sep 2021 4:00am
Dear P,
While I don’t pretend to be any good at it, I’ll take the life of a poet. I love every reference and description put to this lifestyle.
H🌷
While I don’t pretend to be any good at it, I’ll take the life of a poet. I love every reference and description put to this lifestyle.
H🌷
14th Sep 2021 1:04pm
20th Sep 2021 7:11pm
Reads like a confessional. I love how you have portrayed the differences. Oh how passionate the Poet's heart is always seeking, desiring, passionate, aching.. Unable to settle for the mundane and never at peace. Wanting to feel and try everything, feeling so deeply. It's definitely not simple, filling in every empty space with emotion and experiences. Wandering the earth to the most remote places in mind, spirit, and body.
The confession chronicles? I'm digging this, it puts a person (poet) in a feeling.
LJ
LJ
14th Nov 2021 9:58pm
This is so wonderful as a poet, I truly felt the the line “ unpacking your self-esteem.” Poetic gold!
