Here’s a poem I wrote nearly 50 years ago! (Actually on 21 November 1972).
If I had tears in Heaven I would cry.
The Tigris flows from one eye,
the Euphrates from the other;
such is the Garden of Eden.
You cannot hear the birds sing
nor see the trees.
Our eyes are salted out.
Our mouths bawl with joy.
To hear the poem read aloud click HERE.
How wonderful to know you’ve always been writing. It’s in your blood! 🙂
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Thanks Alex. You’d think after 70 years or so that at least something might’ve got published!!
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You’ve connected with readers which is a lot of writing is about 🙂
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And you’ve not run out of ideas either 🙂
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That is a powerful poem, Bruce. The imagery has multiplied the emotions several fold.
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Thanks Uma. I was about to throw all my notebooks of “old” poems away, and noticed this one – so I posted it because I was getting desperate to post a poem!
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We are lucky!
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90% of those early poems are simply horrible!!! – in fact downright embarrassing!
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I guess, yes.
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