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No Sweet Thing Today

I’ve given it little thought, but I suppose it will follow me, and today it has. Today it followed me, maybe as I left home and ventured to the bitter desk in my bitter office. It followed with no sweet treats, but with vinegar, perhaps, or battery acid, inappropriately bottled with vanilla milk. My coffee camouflaged the despair for a moment, but fine coffee and vanilla milk do not follow as bitterness does. And I know it’s no good crying over spilled milk, or vanilla milk ruined by vinegar or battery acid, but it might stay with me today. 6th December 2019

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Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 6/6/2020 12:17:00 PM

Hello Lawrence Sharp, It sounds like you are having a bad day. Have another cup of coffee and relax. Enjoy your day my friend.

Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 6/7/2020 6:23:00 PM

Hello Lawerence Sharp, coffee does help to begin the day. I am glad that you appreciated. enjoy your evening my friend..

Lawrence Sharp
Date: 6/7/2020 7:46:00 AM

Had my coffee and I'm fine. Thank you for visit and comment, Darlene, appreciated.

Christopher Flaherty

Date: 6/1/2020 2:56:00 PM

Condensed Milk On Velt School because i didn't eat pap

Christopher Flaherty
Date: 6/4/2020 3:21:00 PM

Verseeker Bra

Lawrence Sharp
Date: 6/3/2020 2:47:00 AM

Mooi, kondens melk is kwaai genoeg.

Sara Kendrick

Date: 1/22/2020 9:04:00 AM

Very expressive work. Creatively penned. Sara

Lawrence Sharp
Date: 1/27/2020 7:11:00 AM

Thank you, Sara, good to have you here, and very pleasing if you enjoyed.

Robert Lindley

Date: 1/21/2020 3:30:00 PM

That which we can not avoid we must bear with a solid countenance my friend. Life being both the good and the bad of it. The ponderings of a keen mind and true poetic heart! '... A fav....

Lawrence Sharp
Date: 1/27/2020 7:10:00 AM

Thank you, my friend, very good to see you after a while away, and gratifying as always to get your stamp of approval.

Brandy Nicole

Date: 12/30/2019 9:27:00 PM

Like a child plays follow the leader, negativity seems to follows us the same way. No way!! I want nothing to do with it. Yuck!! It seems to stay. So true are your words Lawrence. Try to stay away from the battery acid. Just sayin. ~ Brandy

Lawrence Sharp
Date: 1/8/2020 5:17:00 AM

Reprimand accepted.

Mark Peterson

Date: 12/17/2019 11:17:00 AM

I have sometimes unseeing taken drunk a glass of juice by instead got water—crystal clear, pure water, which at that moment tasted as though it had been ladled from a sewer. But the moment is easily dismissed by nothing more than a pleasant smile or tender deed. So well expressed my gentle friend.

Lawrence Sharp
Date: 12/22/2019 11:20:00 AM

Thank you, my friend, support always appreciated.

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 12/6/2019 7:17:00 AM

The solemnness of this poem gives me pause. You also use "might" which adds hope.

Lawrence Sharp
Date: 12/7/2019 12:00:00 AM

Thanks for stopping by, Caren. Very pleasing if it has any effect.

Vijay Pandit

Date: 12/6/2019 6:45:00 AM

It does show up from time to time--we all feel it, Lawrence. Good thing though it retreats eventually. I hear the gloom my friend--tomorrow will be a brighter day. Emotions brilliantly expressed.

Lawrence Sharp
Date: 12/6/2019 11:59:00 PM

Thanks, Vijay, ongoing support appreciated, always. Some days are better than others.