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Books
· Perceptions

· ECHOSIS

· Prosetry at Work

· Said and Unsaid - Vol 1

· 3 WAY MIRROR


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· Patience Waning

· Ladle Lines (A prosetry memory)

· A Gentle Man

· Pacing Love's Journey

· Gratitude

· A Sticky Conversation

· Blazing Now and Then

· Vulnerable Captivity

· The Kite That Would Not Bow

· Time


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· Desperation Breeds Desperation

· Preference Manifest

· Innocent Guilt

· Barbed Isolation

· A Place...

· Sanity's Loss

· Organs Anonymous

· Fatuous Beyond Absurdity

· Truth is One


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· The Life-long Pernicious Evil

· Cherishing Sounds of Silence

· Understanding the Unexplainable

· Reality of Another Kind

· Finding Trust Again

· Aromalicious Memories

· A Jungle-rain Pastorale

· Sediment Within the Soul

· Life's Enormous Green Chest

· Roadkill Memoriam

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Except the You of You

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

To know oneself seems clear when we overcome the formidable challenge needing to be understood; arguably, the creation of our own reality. Yet, many would retreat, given the most obstinate challenge facing us in the mirror every day. (Image by Video Blocks)

Monday, August 7, 2017


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Except the You of You

So,
What do you do,
You who rush to be somewhere
Knowing others clamor to jump ahead,
To be there waiting to push you back.

What do you do,
You whose dreams remain tenuous
Without the courage to risk,
Whose narrow window of time ticks backward
For fear of the future,
Who needs what others wish to prevent,
To stand upon you own weathered peak?

Inclement passage need not be feared,
For the route only you know
Traverses through your own created clouds
Revealing sunlight you also create
Above the storms no one else can own…

Except the you of you.


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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on August 8, 2017
I'm with David. It would be interesting to use "accept," except for the "Except," in the last line.

Ron

Reviewed on August 8, 2017
Do you mean "Accept"? Sorry, I'm an old English teacher.

Reviewed on August 8, 2017
Each person travels his own path with his own "clouds" and "sunshine".

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Susanne Leist
Reviewed on August 7, 2017
We are our own worst enemies. I believe age teaches us to fight our inner demons and have the courage to persevere through life's obstacles.


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