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Lessons(revised) (Free verse) by bellafuego Some things I've learned, you ask?
That 2 plus 2 doesn't always equal 4.
Because seeing things as black or white,
Right or wrong,
Doesn't work in this world.
Just like the sky isn't always blue,
This world is often gray.
The raindrops don't fall soft on any fields I've known.
The roads and paths i've taken do rise up;
Only to fall and bring me to my knees.
The sun won't always shine warm upon my face;
Sometimes it burns
Like a cut from a knife through the flesh.
These lessons should have made me bitter.
Could have stolen my smile.
But then that brings me to the greatest lesson of all.
Life isn't perfect or fair or even guaranteed.
Up the ladder:
After a Show at the Lyceum
Down the ladder:
Mosaic
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Posted: August 25, 2005 9:48 AM PDT; Last modified: September 4, 2005 12:11 PM PDTWeighted score: 5.0397344 Overall Rank: 7053 Comments:
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Bethy @ 24.222.32.230
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25-Aug-05/1:13 PM
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I have said it a thousands times...Life is the longest thing we have! good poem...:) Bethy
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-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. @ 81.159.221.190
> Bethy
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27-Aug-05/7:52 PM
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How right you are. Christopher McReeves used to be larger than life. A precocious talent with an enviable acting career, his portfolio boasted an infinitely diverse golliwog of roles, ranging from Superman I to Superman IV. He had it all in the palm of his hand. And for that he was punished by being flung head first into a fence post.
nice :)
Truly an epiphany.
Why does the first line have a question mark after it?
Would you say you've learned all the things there are to learn in life now? The reason I'm asking is because fifteen minutes before you wrote this poem, you could have written a poem saying Some things I've learned: 2 + 2 = 4, Translation always works, The sky's always blue etc, and been just as wrong. In fact, I imagine you writing this exact same poem every fifteen minutes for the rest of your life and always being exactly the same amount wrong. Wouldn't that be something? What do you think about that?
2+2=4 no matter how many times you revise it. The last line, and all but the second, make sense.
word to that
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