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Be Not I
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jamesstockdale
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Saturday, 12th March 2016 @ 09:50:33 AM in AEST
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A literary giant
Be not I
The perception otherwise
Would only deny
A truth mistold
Simply a lie
My words suffer such brevity
This is true
All of my words, once used
None of them new
Simplicity abused
With that
Unable to excite or amuse
My words carefully studied and reviewed
Entertain rarely a few
From here, where do I go
If only I knew
Copyright ©
jamesstockdale
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2016-03-12 09:50:33]
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Re: Be Not I
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by Former_Member on
Saturday, 12th March 2016 @ 09:30:42 PM AEST
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beautiful, not because its earnest
or truthful, or I feel a certain simpatico
with it, its content, its muse or its
humility.
Be Not I
this I very much understand
and think is very much understated
Some guy like yourself Jamesstockdale
selflessly mentions attributes / some
lucky fool is born with
yet this not the full truth
As he himself is learning
P.S. it/'/s like poetry is a blog, it/'/s like
form of therapy / but sometimes it feels
as though it might make the writer feel even
worse.
but you do it anyway, my way of reaching out into
the darkness. you do it where others if they like
can read, even you yourself later on
simplicity is never abused it might be callously
defined from time to time/ it might jump over the
border line from time to time/ but not this.
This is my perfect poem tonight!
(I sometimes write too many, and all in a frantic
exercise to demonstrate only to myself / not that I cannot write/ but that I don/'/t write enough.
I don/'/t read enough either.
The key being/ write a lot/ share not so much.
but as you can see, Be Not I, who follows even his own
good advice
Peace!
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Re: Be Not I
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by Invierno on
Sunday, 13th March 2016 @ 01:00:41 PM AEST
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Hi James.
News Flash- NONE of us are literary giants. Unless some super famous poet (as if they exist in this crude and dark age) posts poems here under a pseudonym, you are in the company of your peers.
I enjoy reading your poetry. I especially enjoyed /'/Thinner Twine/'/ .
I follow around eight or so poets here, and you are one of them. It is your kindness for my words that brought me to your words, and I/'/m equally pleased with our discovery of each others contributions to the /'/poetic collective/'/.
My best,
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Re: Be Not I
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by Former_Member on
Sunday, 6th September 2020 @ 10:34:44 AM AEST
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//Another wow poem. The title, the flow, the crafting!!! Excellent my friend.
Thanks,
Dugan
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