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Real Pain
by Roger A. Ochs → (All Poetry by Roger A. Ochs)
  
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I can't recall
The pain of my
birth
Yet surely it
existed

Nor can I know
The pain of my
death
Until it is too
late
To fully savor

Thus I am left
To define
reality
By only the pains
between


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 Reviews of "Real Pain"
Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on November 27, 2002
nice pain-its the pain you feel if you love someone...that feeling you get when you say "i love you" and really mean it...
Bad bad-is when that person says goodbye never to come back
death pain-haven't had that...still to young to die.......and only the good die young..so we will grow old my mate....lol'But back to your poem
Very deep message in there..pain in death could be "Hell"? who knows..

Reviewed by Tien Avielle (Reader)
Reviewed on November 13, 2002
if I defined reality by my pains, I'd have been cold and rotted through by now.
- put on a happy face, damn it! (-:

Reviewed by C. Gourlay (Reader)
Reviewed on October 7, 2002
i like the frank tone you have captured- again your words are meaningful, and your style is clean.

Reviewed by Katy Walsvik (Reader)
Reviewed on October 6, 2002
yin/yang.. without pain we wouldnt know joy, we wouldnt recognize it when we have it..even simple pleasures can be savored.. but its a shame that men cannot know the pain of childbirth since it is followed my the ultimate joy! Your poem is really beautiful, Rog. Your truths seem to mirror your heart, letting the cynic soften a bit, for the cynical is no more reality than the fantasy..and truth is a matter of opinion. You make me think. thank you. katy.

Reviewed by Vicky Jeter
Reviewed on October 5, 2002
Roger,
Wonderful strike for the equitable honoring of grief and death, and the Queston.
Vicky

Reviewed by a- maryllis
Reviewed on October 5, 2002
Powerful and thought provoking...
Good!!

Reviewed on October 5, 2002
pain captured well...excellent write, roger! (((HUGS))) and a fellow sufferer of pain, karla. :)

Reviewed by Linda Hill
Reviewed on October 5, 2002
Deep write...
Thus I am left to define
reality
By only the pains
between..
EXCELLENT thoughts
from a gifted poet.

Reviewed by Lady Peg (Reader)
Reviewed on October 5, 2002
Roger,
excellent...
words that
touched.
Peg

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on October 5, 2002
pain can define the essence of existence...

Reviewed by Dens Dreamweaver (Reader)
Reviewed on October 5, 2002
excellent write!


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