Original Poetry by DS Coremans
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Tuesday 23 August 2022
Senryu – Over
Is it over yet?
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I am sure that it must be,
I no longer care.
Cinquain – Goodbye
I asked
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only for time
and for your attention;
something which you could not give me.
Goodbye.
Pantoum – Within the Archives of My Mind
I added you to my archive today,
really you should have been there
for some time already, but I prayed
that if I held on you would have cared.
Really you should have been there
beside me from the start of our time;
but if I hold on you will never care
and I must admit you were never mine.
Beside me from the start of our time,
was the voice of reason I chose to ignore
but I must now admit you were never mine
even though my heart wishes I’d implore.
Was the voice of reason I chose to ignore
from the very beginning friend or foe?
Even though my heart wishes I’d implore,
without you here I must admit I’ll never know.
From the very beginning friend or foe?
It is a question I have asked many times,
without you here I must admit I’ll never know.
Should I have stopped earlier to see the signs?
It is a question I have asked many times,
but I added you to my archive today.
Should I have stopped earlier to see the signs?
Perhaps, but alone for now I must go on my way.
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Sonnet – I Think I Knew
I think I knew. A long-time before now
though I admit, I tried to ignore it.
Like a hellish habit I could not quit,
you led me astray as I broke my vow.
You turned my quiet voice into a shout
causing careful words to become caustic
and powerful prayer becomes agnostic.
I have lost my reason to be devout.
I lost my reason, to believe in you
as you ignore my worry and my care
I think of you and find myself alone.
I find that time has taught me what is true
and peace comes from my unanswered prayers.
I think I knew it was time to move on.
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Author’s Note:
It’s sad when we are forced to accept that something which never truly began has ended. Something which had all the markers and potential for elation and joy, turned now to bitterness and regret. Some things are never truly ours, no matter how much we may want them, and in the earliest days of something new we are often blind to the reality which faces us. Blinded perhaps by lust which we convince ourselves is love, we excuse the things which hurt us until the hurt is all that remains. It is easy to toil and pine, hoping for change which will never come, waiting for another new beginning before the first one has ever come.
“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
Tupac Shakur
Sometimes walking away is the right thing to do, as long as we know we tried when we had the chance and there may yet be times when desire drives us to question our decisions, but the seed which never grew does not bear fruit. In the same way, love which never was is never really lost and when we make the choice to move on from that which never was, we gain another chance…to once again find that which we desire most of all.
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Triolet – Starlight
I bear you no ill will,
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you, my star in the sky.
I think I love you still,
I bear you no ill will
but no more tears will spill
for now my eye is dry.
I bear you no ill will,
you, my star in the sky.
Haiku – The Tree
the tree has fallen
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like each leaf which fell before
returned to nature
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