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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

Copyright © Lawrence Sharp | Year Posted 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. Login to Reply 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 Login to Reply 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 Login to Reply 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.... Login to Reply 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 Login to Reply 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. Login to Reply 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. Login to Reply 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. Login to Reply Lawrence Sharp Date: 12/6/2019 11:59:00 PM Thanks, Vijay, ongoing support appreciated, always. Some days are better than others.