This is a post I wrote yesterday in response to a poem one of the members of one of my poetry groups wrote. Her poem is first.
Re: Waiting in the Dark
Playing God, here, Joyce, lol!
WAITING IN THE DARK
The woe's of the world are on my shoulders
There are so many I can not see!
Take them away, Dear Lord I pray.
Keep them away for many a day.
I wait for an answer, I can not see,
How on Earth the Lord can help me.
I know he's out there, I know in my heart,
But, oh Dear Lord, it's mighty dark.
Help me I plead on bended knees,
I raise my hands in silent plea.
I know he will answer, I just have to wait
and that my friends is where I will leave this poem for now...
it isn't finished yet, I'm still waiting.
Joyce Gosdin
9/24/2007
WAITING IN THE DARK: THE ANSWER
I know you've been burdened
with this world's sorrows and woe...
But you need to bear them today,
since I cannot yet take them away.
How on earth can I help you, you have asked?
To withstand them all is only your task!
Fear not the darkness, holding you in its sway!
It's darkest before dawn, as the sages say.
Rise off your knees, my daughter dear,
Stand tall against all the troubles you fear!
So, this is your answer: this too shall pass...
� John C. Goerlich 9/27/07
This is very beautiful Dad! You guys make a great team.
ReplyDeleteThanks, but I was just playing!
ReplyDelete"Just playing" around, eh? If I ever get stuck in another English class where I'm required to invent 3 pages of material based on 2 lines of prose, may I, please, bring you in and say, "See! Look, here's a guy who loves to write poetry, and even he will admit that he occasionally "just plays" around. Not -- all -- poetry should be taken as some deep, meaning-laden gospel that took years of introverted reflection and tragedy to develop. They are just words. Get over it!!!”
ReplyDeleteFrom a student who thinks, “You’re damn right Poe was hearing talking ravens. Am I the only person who noticed how much opium that man was on? He probably saw pink elephants on parade, too…”
Oh, so was I...it sucks! Just Kidding! Laugh, it's funny!
ReplyDeleteLMAO!
ReplyDeleteLOL :)
ReplyDeleteI don't get it.
ReplyDeleteFor my part of this, Jake, I was simply building on the history I have of whining to your father about my college English assignments. :)
ReplyDeleteCarla complimented me on my poem, saying it was very beautiful. I said thanks, but I was only playing, which I was, answering the first poem's writer's pleas as though I was God. Jyl interjected, saying I'd somehow proved her point, that not every line, phrase and word of a poem had deep meaning.
ReplyDeleteOkay, pay attention, 'cause this is why it was funny. Carla said it was beautiful. I said I was just playing. She said she was too, it really sucked!
That's why it was funny!