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Those Youthful Days Were Intensely Sweet

Those Youthful Days Were Intensely Sweet In poetic words, disillusionment I often paint, about a wild man that was never a saint. A life that raced into darkness in such haste, never seeing the coming misery and waste! There were hills of thrills to happily scale never thinking of either heaven or hell. I grabbed the pleasures that deep lust demands while dancing to music of rock n roll bands! O' yes, those youthful days were intensely sweet now in my maturity I find that this I must meet Reality of my faded memories shall not last and every day a challenge to have a blast. Time has a way of delivering its greatest hits. Memories found false, one rarely forgets. Robert J. Lindley 1-19-2015 Note: Memories even if bitter sweet, are still gold when one wants to frolic in the past and ponder the what-ifs, the if-only's and the I should-of's... You know you are old when you look back more than you look forward methinks. Old age, the great equalizer..

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Date: 3/7/2016 9:30:00 PM
Time has a way of delivering its greatest hits. Memories found false, one rarely forgets....so true...magnificent write, Robert ! I agree with what you said...keep inspiring !
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Date: 1/23/2016 9:49:00 AM
I love the sonnet form, and this awesome poem just complements everything that makes reading what you pen worthwhile!
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Date: 1/21/2016 8:58:00 AM
Wonderful introspection, Robert. You write with your heart, and we are blessed by your wisdom. :-)
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Date: 1/21/2016 6:45:00 AM
Old age may be the great equalizer, but of course you have to make it there first! Wonderful write mate, enjoyed it from beginning through rocking middle to memorial end.
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Date: 1/19/2016 7:08:00 AM
Absolutely agreed. A powerful poem.
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