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Mixed Emotions

Should the sky be blue and bright When tears swim, wanting to run Across my cheek and face The taste of brine reminds me of pain and joy, sorrows and funerals Weddings and celebrations of life. Tonight I am sad, hollow...aching! Tomorrow the sun will rise Tomorrow my tears will dry Tomorrow my sorrow will be masked Behind a fascade of a kindhearted face

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Jessica Cooper

Date: 4/17/2010 11:36:00 AM

i'm am now truly greatful for all the tomorrows' to come, thank you!

Jay Loveless

Date: 4/15/2010 10:59:00 AM

i like this, i know how it feels

Lynette Chachere

Date: 4/14/2010 11:28:00 PM

tears are sacred .they are like great strength, true sadness or a wanting. or revealing a denied truth. i hope you have better days, Doris. -Always&Forever Lynette

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 4/14/2010 9:14:00 AM

This is the way I feel always . Confused forever in my life. Nice one ! P.D. was here

Donal Mahoney

Date: 4/14/2010 7:57:00 AM

Before retirement, I wrote and edited prose for a living most of my life. Poetry occupied my youth and I had about 100 poems published 40 years ago before I put the others in boxes while I worked to feed and educate 5 kids. In retirement I read and listened to Gregorian Chant till my wife bought me this computer. Now I am back on the treadmill editing myself. No rest for the Irish.

Donal Mahoney

Date: 4/14/2010 7:38:00 AM

Regarding "Kaleidoscope and Harpsichord," the only thing true in that poem is that my wife one time with kindness said that reading one of my poems was like looking through the former while listening to the latter. But two years ago she bought me this computer and showed me where I had stored boxes of poems decades ago. Since then, 496 poems published here and abroad. She was tired of me listening to Gregorian Chant and reading esoteric periodicals. Now I type all the time.

Daver Austin

Date: 4/14/2010 7:26:00 AM

Hey! You and most everyone else. What a great bunch of actors we humans are. Good write. Love, daver

Donal Mahoney

Date: 4/14/2010 7:06:00 AM

I wrote "Let's Look Around" for a grammar school friend who although successful in life is now an agnostic. I have always believed but that is a gift from God. He once believed and now does not. I try to bring him back, if only by showing that the existence of God can be proved by reason although it takes faith to believe in Jesus Christ. I have no idea why I still believe and he does not.

Donal Mahoney

Date: 4/14/2010 4:37:00 AM

Regarding "lemon underwear," the lemon for me is simply a color and a stage of age and disrepair the underwear is in, which is the stage the Browne was in. Sorry it did not work for you. But your "Mixed Emotions" is a nice poem of the kind I sometimes manage to write.

Dr.Ram Mehta

Date: 4/13/2010 10:22:00 PM

Well penned poem. I enjoyed it

Linda-Marie Sweetheart

Date: 4/13/2010 8:06:00 PM

Such a glorious write Doris ..so intense and deeply moving... luv it for the contest posted...by Dane Ann... good luck if so entered... and yes...making up IS the fun part of romance... he is quite persistent .. and I do luv him...luv.. Linda-Marie..

David Byrne

Date: 4/13/2010 7:55:00 PM

I was going to say Prozac is good for this type of condition but I won’t! Hope you are better tomorrow.....good write!

Rachel W

Date: 4/13/2010 6:08:00 PM

It's amazing what a smile can hide. I truly could feel the pain behind it though. Check out the website 1000awesomethings.com --it honeslty changed the way I go about my day--it's so simple & will make you smile!

John Loving Iii

Date: 4/13/2010 4:12:00 PM

the sun shines for what you can make it. enjoy the day and never fake it. saddness is a state of mind. you can change that by redirecting your time. john

Sara Kendrick

Date: 4/13/2010 4:10:00 PM

Don't be sad...Tomorrow will bring a better day...Mom