Terrible Poet

Quietly I whisper to anyone who will listen, taking a deep breath not so much of frustration but of concern. I'm starting to understand what my Mother & Grandmother felt when they were feeling the burdens of others so deeply.  My grandmother always talked about being able to see the train coming but not being able to do anything about it in regards to situations in people's lives. I remember her saying, "Somethings we just have to live through." She helped people carry their burdens and never seemed to wear down.  Maybe she was given a window of perception into some lives in order to pray for them and offer emotional  support.  Now that I have your attention, let me pass on some of her advice she gave to me. I've missed the mark many a day, but I do my best every new day I'm graced with.  And it is this- "Don't ever get so proud you think you're past or above the anguish of crestfallen days." Pausing and maintaining eye contac...

lackluster days haunt me still, walking uphill- gales whip me about, like a tempest windstorm sending shivers, tremors up my spine. i wonder- i wonder yet... maybe forever more- can a being attain Nirvana if everything isn't perfectly sublime? @baccusbee #vss365 @OurPoetryX #bravewrite

exist profound, mundane  striving, growing, holding  day to day and in the same ways we are @baccusbee #OurPoetryX

mature peas busting out of the pod, no more room to grow  destined to roll across a plate chased by forks, maybe sit in cans on shelves for who knows how long- or stuffed in bags in cold dark freezers risking the cold burn... the lucky ones though, go back to soil  & produce more progeny... living on in pea memory.  @baccusbee #OurPoetryX

Oh, that my enthusiasm for delightful verse could undergo resplendent conversion- yielding a grand epic this day!!! Hope remains as I exist... My pen relents, having its own way Honor it I must... Writing the silence in observance of hushed harmonies... Listening, like a little bird in a bush, between stanzas & lines to pen every blessed verse... @baccusbee #vss365 @OurPoetryX