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Books
· Perceptions

· ECHOSIS

· Prosetry at Work

· Said and Unsaid - Vol 1

· 3 WAY MIRROR


Short Stories
· 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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· War and Peace

· Desperation Breeds Desperation

· Preference Manifest

· Innocent Guilt

· Barbed Isolation

· A Place...

· Sanity's Loss

· Organs Anonymous

· Fatuous Beyond Absurdity

· Truth is One


Poetry
· 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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Reflecting can be a frightening place for the mind to dwell if too many unresolved mistakes overwhelm. (Image by pinterest)

Monday, August 9, 2021


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You

 

Have you introduced the you to you,

The way an enigmatic visitor at your door would?

 

For all the wayward missteps the you of you has experienced,

Have you gathered enough seats in your room

For your musical-chair charade

Of shrinking back into the multiple you of you thoughts

As you stare into space at the mirror

That isn’t there?

 

Might you have a match to light,

Make all your you of you personages

Shadow dance on the walls,

Or levitate dream-like to the ceiling

Like moths seeking out light

Any light

Before they take their bow

As the curtain drops

And sunrise catches your dwindling flame

Chasing them and the you of you ghosts away

Just as the match burns down to your fingertips?



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Reviewed by Patricia Hilliard
Reviewed on August 11, 2021
Your poem makes me think of how in Yoga, we try to step back from the self and view our "Me" as a "You." See what you have done, what have you influenced, and what will become of you as you fade when the match goes out.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on August 10, 2021
Very interesting introspective view. We all make mistakes. But some have greater value in the lives of those who take greater risks.

My risks have been small, concerned primarily with adventure rather than venture, so my mistakes and outweigh heavy on me like you seem to portray in your poem. I will admit that I might've been wealthier, but probably not healthier, had I taken other paths.

I don't lie awake at night thinking about them. But I did spend a bit of last night Dreaming about a high school flame for a Hollywood reject. She was a real beauty, but hard and coarse like a man.

Ron


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