Writing What We Know
Takes Time And Dedication
It's harder than it looks
We may live our day out fully
Working from the crack of dawn to the wee hours into the night
Maybe instead we can relax and have a day of leisure
Even yet a day filled with both
With two much of one and not enough of the other
It is like playing around with tnt
We may sleep the day away
You are the one who decides
Each has it's purpose
Which ever you choose
Most likely when the day is done
It is over
Unless a wonderful or tragic event
It isn't recorded, documented or even for that matter remembered
One big blur in time
A foggy memory at best
One of thousands that seem so unimportant
Until we look a bit closer
Then we can see the microscopic effect each day has on the one previously
How every day is interrelated and builds for a better tomorrow
Wishful thinking on my part
I like to peel back the layers as if they were an onion
Crying in the beginning
Getting my emotions stirred up
Then realizing what we have in our hands
The option to write everything and anything about our day
Store it away for safe keeping or tell it to the world
I have done both and every combination known to man
Am I happy about what I write?
Sometimes
Do I wish I could do more?
Yes and no
If I spend to much time writing
It takes me away from today
Which is the most important of them all
It is special treat for me to see a day gone bye
Then recaptured in thoughts
I created and worked around in my head
As if it was a toy I had to fix
But couldn't
Where does that leave me now
Moving forward with great persistence and desire
To record as much as I can
Until the day I pass on
Like an old gallon of milk
Good for today and next week
No matter how good it is
One day it will expire
Comments
AUTHORShannon Life is so beautiful, amazing, wild and yet so shocking. When we are left with a choice to love each day or dislike it. I choose to love it with more passion. It is not always easy and when the day is over I can look back and say I am glad I lived another day. Learning lessons along the way. Thank you for all your comments and support. Make today a good day.
- AUTHOR
Gypsy Rose Lee Struggling just to put comments on my hubs. I am so glad I make the time but something has to give. I constantly pick and choose. Less sleep or skipping my next writing project. Watering the garden or mowing the lawn can wait. Leaving the dirty laundry for tomorrow. Off to work now. I will return tomorrow with a little more time than today. Thank you for reading and sharing. Thinking logically is very sound advice I also will try to follow. Ms. Dora I try to my best and there is always another word out there or another way of saying something. I am so happy you read and enjoy my poems. I am always trying to make them different in some way than my others. Reaching for a feeling I didn't understand before. One of the happiest feelings I experience is seeing a comment on one of my hubs. Thank you for sharing and caring. Ann Carr The more I write the more thoughts rise to the surface. It is interesting how that works. I don't know why I didn't see that or feel that way yesterday. I guess it is like aging we don't feel it all the time then there is a wrinkle where there never was one before. Other times I feel my knees pop and a shoulder muscle ache. They are physical reminders that I wish would go away but I think are here to stay. Thank you so much for reading and sharing my poems. My words roam around town even when I am sitting here on my bottom. I find it amazing that a thought can go far and wide with great speed. Where our bodies take time to lift and move. I blame it on gravity. That darn gravity. Have a beautiful day.
Ah, yes so many things slip by before we know it. I keep telling myself that if I think logically all the time everything will be just fine.
Probably most of your readers including me can identify with the feelings you share but are unable to express them as well as you do. Simple and deep at the same time. Good work.
Yes, today is the most important but it is indeed made up of all those days before. You write what you feel like writing which is the best way of all; in that way it also comes across with more feeling, more depth, more emotion.
I sometimes think I haven't enough time to write but then it pesters my brain until I've spilled it out on paper (the writing, that is, not my brain!). What a relief! Then I can start to live the moment for the rest of that day!
You've started me on my own train of thought now! Good one!
Ann
Sort of melancholy thoughts here, but always with your characteristics optimism. Life is flying by, always changing and somehow also staying the same.
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