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Years
by Karen Hecht Springer → (All Poetry by Karen Hecht Springer)
Tuesday, March 1, 2016    Rated "G" by the Author.
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As a famous professor of mine once said, "Words are not things."

 

Years

By: Karen Hecht Springer

March 1, 2016

 

All the years

Those sweet, short words

Coming in spurts

Better than the smell of newly fallen rain

Jerking my heartstrings

To know you’re there

Too near but not near enough

One word can shatter dreams

Silence being the biggest word of all

Dominating with his brother doubt

Making me lose faith

Succumbing to the bitter enemy called what if

Launching tactical operative anxiety

When I told you everything

When I used the power of long narrative

When I gave in to

All the years

 

 


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 Reviews of "Years"
Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on March 4, 2016
so well written

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on March 2, 2016
This is my kind of poetry, Karen; it "seeps" into my soul and I feel what you express because I am intimate with it. Thank you for sharing this gift. Love and best wishes to you,

Regis

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on March 2, 2016
As I read, your sparse words gradually told me of a sadness, a great sadness, that crept into your heart. You reached me across the years.

Ron

Reviewed by Dadfire
Reviewed on March 2, 2016
I know from experience being silent says far more sometimes than words that hurt.
At least you can perhaps start dealing with whatever the problem(s) are if you know where to start but silence is a killer.
Dan

Reviewed by Andy Turner
Reviewed on March 2, 2016
Indeed, words are a powerful verb, be it careless vitriol, or generous gratitude has the potential making or devastation of ones life. The little tongue has a lot to answer for.

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on March 1, 2016
I know the feeling big time, Karen. Yep . . . "All the years."

Reviewed on March 1, 2016
All the years are time we have gone through, good or bad. Time consumes us.

Love ya!

Jane


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