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JonSR77 said:
Welcome from New Jersey. I lived in the Bay Area for a year, back, starting in 1980.
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Jon, I was born in South Philadelphia. Moved to CA in 1957. Back then the area where we settled was rather rustic. Dairies and farms were all around us. I had a pretty good Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer life as a kid in one of the "valleys" of that era.

Thanks for the welcome!
 
JonSR77 said:
Welcome from New Jersey. I lived in the Bay Area for a year, back, starting in 1980.

I see you mentioned poetry.

There is a poetry thread on here and a separate thread on Shakespeare:


Poetry thread

https://www.seniorforums.com/threads/poetry.69426/page-2
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Shakespeare thread

https://www.seniorforums.com/threads/uncle-bill-shakespeare-alive-and-well.45670/page-11


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My wife and I are both published poets and both performed on the Spoken Word scene...(some time ago)
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Thanks Jon!! I will take a look at those links later. I used to dabble in poetry when I had a broken heart for inspiration, a long time back...in time it sort of healed, so I stopped writing.

I'll dig around and see if I have a few of mine to share. Some I still can recite from memory.

My style and format is not correct, but I don't care!! I just put down what I felt as I went along...
 

UncleVinny said:
Thanks Jon!! I will take a look at those links later. I used to dabble in poetry when I had a broken heart for inspiration, a long time back...in time it sort of healed, so I stopped writing.

I'll dig around and see if I have a few of mine to share. Some I still can recite from memory.

My style and format is not correct, but I don't care!! I just put down what I felt as I went along...
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Jon...I gotta get out the door, but I pulled this one out of a Saved File. Might be a good one for all the single seniors here who may not want to take the plunge again!

The Path

Setting forth The Path is clear
our journey just begun,
with careful steps, and cautious hearts
could each be the one?
True to say that neither us can know what’s set to be,
t’was pre-ordained so long ago
by powers lost on me.

Not to say there is no choice
in what may come along,
to throw us off, or sway our hearts
so we must remain strong,
and be as true as two can be
with feelings that they share,
and let the other always know
they’re safe within our care.

With love lavished on; relied upon
ever mindful what one gives,
should come as freely as the wind
the sun, the moon, the stars.

And tho’ you may have carried long
from battles’ past the scars,
bear in mind my new found love
I was not a part your wars,
but I will strive to do my best
to close and bolt those doors,
and open others just the same
as we travel ‘long The Path,
and make you happy, make you smile
and ever make you laugh...

For laughter is a soothing balm
heals that which isn’t right,
melts away what weighs you down
bans terrors’ in the night,
and makes the bleakest darkest void
appear to still shed light.


I know I’ve tread The Path before
but somehow lost my way,
again perhaps t’was pre-ordained,
my past was meant to be
a means to ready me for you
and have my heart again set free,

So with this vow I promise you
I’ll try with all my might,
to give you calm and peace of mind–

And pray I do it right.

-2003-
 
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