A thousand words later
we’re still talking.
I know I’m being reflexive,
this banter a transparent way
to paint clowns on speech bubbles;
ripostes that ricochet off any real wit.
Later still, alone in my head - the replay,
the should have said and the unsaid.
Witty repartee are invented,
not only as late additions
but as inserts, addendums, and edits
in an ongoing discourse.
Some words still hang in the air,
digitized like finger bones.
A back and forth exchange
of words ping-ponging along
as afterthoughts.
Next time we chin-wag
my comebacks and rejoinders
will be better timed and scripted,
unless of course you also
have been rehearsing yet more
retorts and asides.
Our Bio
Written: by Tom Wright
2/16/2016
Life is a biography that God allows each to write,
A book containing chapters that leave us contrite;
Some are short stories, others anthologies of sort,
Even transversal thoughts that we didn’t report;
Each Bio concludes with a page marked the end,
No addendums added or footnotes to be penned.
With each books conclusion comes unending rest,
Will I bequeath a best seller, will it pass God’s test?
I Hope there exists pages, dog eared, and starred,
Pages worthy of remembrance and few to discard;
Each life has a story to tell
I pray yours appear on God’s best seller list.
Tom
Dear poets,
In a class of poetry
we discussed the truthfulness
of what we write
I realized that some (many) poets
write only about what actually happened
and all their details are accurate
I just write
I add on and take away
assume different personalites
combine, etc
Poetic license, creativity, imagination,
exaggeration
I apologize for misleading in any way
I mixed up the worlds and
didn't realize how SERIOUS an issue
it was
I knew people made little addendums
and comments but thought they were
just kindnesses not neccesities
some poems are obvious fiction
hyperbole etc but I vow
to be more careful now
to comment upon the differences