Friday, 1 March 2019

Chapbook- An Unlived Life

My first attempt at a book of poetry. These are the words, I may or may not add the images. (Note: A couple of these are going to have to be reworked.)

Poem #1Winter People0.47k
Poem #250 500.53k
Poem #3Solace0.19k
Poem #4The Number Two0.69k

Winter People
Life halts, touch stops
Self, cold, encased in ice
Winter people, snow friends
Frozen wastelands abound
All year round

Personalities in ice
Emotions snow covered
Touch ceases, need ceases
Nothing reaches them
In winter's halls

Winter people, frozen inside
Cut off from warmth, caring
They feel nothing but pain
Joy is denied them
There is only ice

50 50
One foot stuck firmly in history
the other in the future.
Where is the present?
Already gone

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My mind is half in the past
and half in the future.
Where is the present?
I can't see it

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One is me, two is you
Together we make three
Oops I mean to say
We are a pair


Solace
I had lost my dad

Thank goodness I found a guide

To help me throughout

Through grief, out the other side

When my father passed away



The Number Two
Of all of the numbers, two rules my life
It's always there in everything I do
It's very true so I'll repeat it twice
Of all the numbers, my life's ruled by two

I have had two good, supportive partners
And two great children who drive me insane
Two small grandsons and two teen granddaughters
My apologies if I sound inane

But I swear by all that's holy it's true
My life is circumscribed by that number
Everywhere I look is the number two
It even follows me while I slumber

Goddess please help me, I very much rue
The day I was found by the number two