Deeper The Well, More Bitter Its Drink Tastes
Days of youth, with its wanton lusts
Blind to truth, dark winds came in gusts
Poison to seize ill gotten gains
Saddest memories, its remains!
Treasures remain, foiled by heart's greed
Greed's sad stain, epic loss decreed
By black shadows in human souls
Darken lies, take their heavy tolls!
Flowers wane, water and sun lost
Sin's dark bane, sweet fruits, at what costs?
Stolen goods, youth's untamed ardor
All changed, life becomes much harder.
Pleasures sought, with no real concerns
Blindly bought, pray youth one day learns
Life punishes hurts thus dark born
By regretful nights so forlorn.
Deep the well, bitter its drink tastes
Black the hell, into which one wastes
When passion has no ruing guide
hell's shadows chase, nowhere to hide!
Hold to Light, that lone dark voice fails
Keep in sight, all that honor tells
For sorrows, are regrets oft laid
By deeds that world demands be made!
Love's treasures, let passions be true
Joy's pleasures, are gems that accrue
From kindness and sweet loving ways
Are true innocence, when kids play.
R.J. Lindley,
Original, December 5th, 1988
This version edited, today December 16th, 2018
(Thoughts on youth and mistakes passionately made)
Syllables Per Line:
0 8 8 8 8 0 8 8 8 8 0 8 8 8 8 0 8 8 8 8 0 8 8 8 8 0 8 8 8 8 0 8 8 8 8
Total # Syllables: 224
Total # Words: 176
Note: While looking at older poems to edit and present, I found this one.
Since in was written in December thirty years ago, I thought it fitting to
edit it and present here this December. The original had a mixed syllable
count. I first edited to achieve ten syllables per verse. But, but that
is when my overbearing and demanding muse stepped in and commanded that
I try eight syllable verses. Next came a coin toss and the eight verse
version won. My muse was happy but my poet's soul woefully cries out for
the abandoned ten syllable version! A man must honor the results of a coin
toss, methinks. Unless the muse fixed the coin toss too!
What say ye such thinking??
Last edited by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot; 03-23-2019 at 04:34 AM.
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