"Autobiographies of great nations are written in three manuscripts – a book of deeds, a book of words, and a book of art. Of the three, I would choose the latter as truest testimony." - Sir Kenneth Smith, Great Civilisations

"I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine." - Leo Tolstoy

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again. - John Updike

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti


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Sunday, May 9, 2021

R.E. Slater - Fallen Beauty




Fallen Beauty

by R.E. Slater


At times I feel
a great sadness within
as if there is nothing
I can do; leaving me
helpless,
a bit wistful,
somewhat discouraged,
maybe frightened,
before wandering away.
Whether morning or evening,
it creeps in unawares
not staying long
just long enough to feel
it's pain
it's empty loss
it's grey presence
unlifted an hour of
morbid thought.
Then slips away to
some hidden time
in the stillness of day
or early waking hour
as if some hidden love
holds me... when not;
just a deep sadness
which cannot be shook
leaving all grey.
A sometimes unwanted
companion when all
seems gay and well;
or a foreboding which
carries deep care;
perceiving far-flung
worlds lost to grasp
which are, and are not,
till it's ache lets me go.
An utter helplessness,
unmet by love or hope,
a loss of fellowship
or an emptiness
unmet, if ever,
gripping my will
its hollow vacancy
before ebbing away
uncheered its absence.


R.E. Slater
May 9, 2021

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