Let me…
Let me work a normal shift
with normal expectations
Perhaps, normal hours
without guilt for being tired
Let me eat a normal meal
without children’s cries
teenagers battle senseless
I’ll just do the dishes quietly
Let me go to bed, a normal
time, without the honey-do
list of added tasks, and my
detailed faults, minor notes
Let me remember, that time
will wash the unpleasantness
away, to fondly remember
these as better days past
Let my week pass with
gratitude for challenges
and tender moments of
daily imperfections
I want to thank you for taking the time to read the above piece. This is a new medium for me, and any commentary you may have, I do appreciate. These are all drafts, if I ever take them further, I would expect edits as a part of the natural process.
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Being normal and doing the routines normally throughout a week is considered to be ideal week
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I applaud for choosing to post as poetry. I’m not creative myself yet!
I like the part you said about remembering “these as better days past”. It’s hard to realize sometimes without the luxuries of hindsight and perspective that these are “the good old days”
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I’m learning Poetry, wish I had more time to read it.
I was grumbling through my morning which is how the poem started, and then I remembered that someday I’ll look back and forget all the bad. Glad it came out positively in the piece.
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I liked your poem. I can’t (yet) write poetry, so don’t feel able to pass comment on technique etc, but I enjoyed it
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If you aren’t comfortable writing, you can always read until you start to see how people put them together, free verse is a good place to start, doesn’t lock you into a form or rhyme.
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I’m happy writing prose, just not really tried poetry yet. Once I’m happy with what I’m doing, I may move to writing poetry, but for now I’m happy to read and appreciate the work of others 😍
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It is fine as it stands as a poem! Good work! I write in the limerick form myself—it helps me focus my thoughts without getting verbose, a long-time malady of mine! 😀
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Thank you, I appreciate it. My first line or two generally set my form. It generally helps to keep my own brain from running off.
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You know, I have the same uh, challenge! 😀
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I think a lot of us on here do in one way or another.
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Aye-yah!
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