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Robert J. Lindley, 2-16-2018
Sonnet (In eight's)(  Dark night Echoes)

Syllables Per Line: 8 8 8 8 0 8 8 8 8 0 8 8 8 8 0 8 8
Total # Syllables: 112
Total # Words:     98

Now Too Old And Who The Hell Cares He was old, too tired and alone feeling sadness deep in his bones. Paper cursed, his pen went bad night was dark, heartbreak was so sad. Looking back, his life full of scars few he got fighting in bars. Now too old and who the hell cares that a poet's words he now shares? Dread, that deep dread that dark nights bring can poet words, speak of such things? What solace, can memories give when years are far too few to live? Ah, but this he still thinks of you true love found, found both of you two. Robert J. Lindley, 2-16-2018 Sonnet (In Eight's)( Dark Night Echoes)

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Date: 2/16/2018 9:19:00 AM
How sad Robert, I also wrote about a friend who died last night.. but its an angry poem..
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Date: 2/16/2018 6:06:00 AM
Robert I am sure lots of people care about you and it is always great to have true love in old age.. i hope I have a beloved by my side when im older.. Great sonnet..
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Date: 2/16/2018 9:14:00 AM
Thanks. True, a part of the poem is about my own life woven in too(poetic leeway)but the bulk of it is about the life of a close friend from my youth-(over 30 years ago), that about 5 years after my girlfriend and I had broke up, married an ex-girlfriend of mine. He later turned to hard drugs and she left him and he died three weeks ago, having never remarried and having no children. Sad........ he was a good guy, that made bad choices in life.

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