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poetry

for the most part

can only

further

beautify

this fast grown weary world

whether it finds itself

*by a shaky old man

*a frustrated house wife

*or the farthest reaching young girl

it is 'The Sought Afters Gift'

its initial origins in such factor

are of so very little concern

and yet quite so

unlike my slavingly laborous

yet lethargic self

all these same before mentioneds*

bare for themselves such ear marked

chance of plausible witnessing

to the birth of poetic personal vision

which by itself is a blessing well

and above

all my own very best

where as with a bumbling I

writing is but a wanna be's guest

or to myself to be rather kind

a purposeful collision

one which I much too regularly revisit

and detail

for it to be anything but considered

quite by accident

Oh, I quite certainly assure you

most truly I do

it is a wary though often merry

yet bumpy self deceit

'ere but I swear

'tis entirely too true

say

you think me now

a pen dribbling slacker

well you wouldn't be the first

for my place in that genre

I've held steadily high

for quite a marathon's amount of

time....................

(July 12, 1999)