Regret Reflected

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    Regret Reflected
    Sunday morning, nothing doing
    Little for that last and flat
    Comes up consciousness
    Last night's laughter
    Last night's tears
    Stirring on the couch bed cold

    Flakes are falling window shapes
    Across this perma-frosted mind
    Signs of future woe aligned
    Coalesce and test the emptiness

    Let this be a lesson blessed
    To never know a day of rest
    Before, beyond berated fate
    The self you seek to demonstrate
    A choice, a path, a circumstance
    Locked in passion's nether dance
    The lateness of this clouded hour
    precludes the fire of will to flower
    Nonsense all illusion sees
    The moment senses doom and flees.

    Fare thee well.

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    captaininsight commented on Regret Reflected

    03-27-2009

    balance,structure,image, diametric oposition. .exciting,quieting , I see my tracks in the snow and the untouched freedom ahead. Great work.
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    cousinsoren commented on Regret Reflected

    03-25-2009

    The mood of regret is intriguingly captured and painted in his beautiful, little lyric. Ambience and lassitude are succinctly painted in a perfectly crafted verse," Stirring on the couch bed cold" on a Sunday morning. The idea of moodiness is well sustained throughout. The poet aptly concludes that there there is a lesson to be learnt from all of this cold feeling of regret:"Let there be a lesson blessed etc."
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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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