Join the Neopoet online poetry workshop and community to improve as a writer, meet fellow poets, and showcase your work. Sign up, submit your poetry, and get started.

POEM WHICH TOOK SEVEN DECADES

My pockets
are holey
some feel in deep
and
kindness show
it makes me glow

many smile
then let me go

now I say
come along
at times
we love
often blow
what next
who knows...

Style / type: 
Free verse
Review Request (Intensity): 
I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back
Last few words: 
I was then in grade seven impoverished now I have flourished Read on the transformation..
Editing stage: 
Content level: 
Not Explicit Content

Comments

Yay for upward mobility.

Tim

'Twas the other way around
riches to rags then after seven decades
did rebounce
Glad you came
to pronouce

author comment

We fall.
We rise.
We bend.
We break.
We burn but we survive.

John Dyer Baizley

How so true

author comment

who can say that better than you
we still live and continue

Don't we
you and me
all poets
we wee weee.......................

author comment

Jess would be so proud of your growth, I know I am.

You're starting to feel it aren't you? if not I am feeling it for you.

I am so proud of you.

This is poetry. and you are the poet.

love always Sis xox

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — W.B. Yeats

jess where ever may be you
thank you I am also proud of you

author comment
(c) Neopoet.com. No copyright is claimed by Neopoet to original member content.