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My Life As Poetry

"My Life as Poetry"



When the Lotus Eaters at Loon Junction barked
I ignored their confused chicanery
closed the gates behind me

I dropped one tear
in your sedentary ocean
it contained a lifetime

the salt was wasted
on your dead sea
and I used it to flavour

my life as poetry

(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)
gvlm
klb, mlb 
(the others don't matter)




"When I Grow Up" / Fever Ray
https://youtu.be/4F-CpE73o2M






"When I grow up
I want to be a forester
Run through the moss on high heels
That's what I'll do
Throwing out a boomerang
Waiting for it to come back to me...

I put my soul into what I do"








LYRICS - "When I Grow Up"/ Fever Ray
https://genius.com/Fever-ray-when-i-grow-up-lyrics

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Lady Labyrinth Date: 6/13/2021 3:04:00 PM Lark Ascending. Login to Reply Lady Labyrinth Date: 6/13/2021 3:05:00 PM https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/lark_ascending_1349839

Frederic Parker Date: 6/13/2021 9:14:00 AM is not confusion the first step on the staircase leading to wisdom? yet many are afraid to take the next step, it is easier to walk away and comment on the darkness perceived with blind eyes...love of poetry is a shapeless formless ethereal realm where dreams haunt the wandering soul with eternal wishes that hold the shape of the heart it's contained in Login to Reply Lady Labyrinth Date: 6/13/2021 3:04:00 PM ...without dark, no light. But then you are older and a sage to read here in these esteemed pages of the consommé. The best Sonnet writer, I believe. I write what I know. Thank you for your comments Herr Parker, I soak them up like the sponge I am. What I squeeze out of it, could be enthralling, or not. I take the next step, every day and believe me there is no confusion in what I've written or experienced. x

Robert Lindley Date: 6/12/2021 1:19:00 PM I place it far above mine and do so quite sincerely. As your creativity is truly astounding. And the imagery and depths always tops... God bless... Login to Reply Lady Labyrinth Date: 6/12/2021 5:34:00 PM Thank you for your kind thoughts. Collaboration between creative talent, such as poetry, can be harnessed in many ways, other than 'writing a poem together'. I have been writing since I was 9years old, so I understand where you are coming from below Robert. I have also spent a large portion of my career around writing, writers, journalists and my childhood was surrounded by books and writing - throw in the challenges and joy of life experience - the forest my stories come from is rich and fertile. There is more dark in my life, than Light, but funnily enough my family crest motto is Lux Vitae - so I strive for the Light. I am a writer, and I write well, I know this very well. I am left of centre. There is always room for improvement and I am constantly evolving as a writer. I challenge myself, to write different genres. I prefer dark over light. I was speaking with a friend the other day and mentioned, while I appreciate the classics - I am more intrigued by the abstract in life. Lady Labyrinth Date: 6/12/2021 5:33:00 PM I can see the beauty in a Rembrandt, but I prefer to study, read, and understand a Brett Whitely, a Marsden Hartley, or a Georgia O'Keeffe for eg. Like the art I admire and find intriguing, I prefer poets who are complex (not easy to read first hit, reeling you back to translate somehow again - nor am I magnetised by poetry full of romantic fluff) and usually my favourite poets, you can read many different ways, and walk away with something of you, you have found in their thoughts and experiences. One writer that comes to mind in the Soup, who writes very well like this is James Swartz, who hasn't posted in some time, which is a shame - but he is well worth the read, to understand where I am coming from with abstract metaphor. Robert Lindley Date: 6/12/2021 4:44:00 PM continued- as I started writing at age 14. And I have never quit writing for more than just a few weeks at a time, over these many decades. To me poetry is a blessing- and sometimes seems to be a curse. But a curse that I am not willing to give up. Robert Lindley Date: 6/12/2021 4:37:00 PM I strongly disagree and do so by the way of judging the very positive and inspiring effect your poetry has on me. Not just its creativity and beauty but its originality and depths that so oft send me into a state of awe. I would never, never, never call any of your writing substandard. As I see so very much in it. I hope that you do not think me insane but your poetry has inspired dozens of ideas for poems for me. Of course they are written in my own style but are very heavily influenced by your verses. A fact.. And I have 53 years writing and reading poetry under my belt. Lady Labyrinth Date: 6/12/2021 4:15:00 PM I think it is a proven fact, my writing is extraordinarily substandard, far beneath yours Sir Lindley. I am therefore not a true writer yet, nor a true poet - yet...I shall keep on writing nevertheless, not to be thwarted. We all make way for improvements here. ;) xx

Robert Lindley Date: 6/12/2021 1:16:00 PM My friend, remember this, Keats was not regarded with any real favor or flavor while he was alive. Only later when time and fate allowed a different multitude to read and understand his brilliance did he gain that which was always his due! Same basically was true of Emily Dickinson. To those that know- your poetry stands the test of time. A fav- a gem .. Login to Reply Lady Labyrinth Date: 6/12/2021 4:17:00 PM True. Most are enjoyed posthumously. Some are closer to receiving that acknowledgement than others. Thank you for your kind thoughts.

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Lady Labyrinth Date: 6/11/2021 3:27:00 PM "I lost myself once and on my way back up from the bottom, I saw my name written across the sky and all the reasons why I was worthy of this climb. The sky broke open harder than I ever did to show me that the strongest things break apart sometimes to learn about the grace of letting go, the strength of rising back up, and the beauty of finding yourself again. Now I say, I never lost myself at all, I was simply going through the process, of bringing myself back home to me." Login to Reply Lady Labyrinth Date: 6/11/2021 3:30:00 PM "You can't help but love what you love. There are just some people you can't help loving, and it doesn't matter what they've said or haven't said, done or haven't done, because you will love them anyway. Love cannot be explained, there is no reasoning with it; and sometimes that kind of love, may be the truest form of love that exists."

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