Hope you’re enjoying autumn/fall in the northern hemisphere, and spring/summer in the southern. Sorry I haven’t posted any new poems on here for a while, but I’m creating a lot of poetry for a two-years X Files parody project I’m serialising over at the Writing and Poetry greenYgrey blog, as well as serialising reflections from the 242 Mirror Poems and Reflections book there, so I’m being kept pretty busy when not doing the day-job.
Mirror Poem Book Reflections
Over twenty reflections from 242 Mirror Poems and Reflections are on the Writing and Poetry blog now, so following on from reflections 1-5, reflections 6-10, and reflections 11-15 here’s reflections 16-20:
Reflection 16 mirrored Middle-Age Memories:
Our age is one of great importance,
for it is the only one we’ll know.
Reflection 17 mirrored Living in the Middle-Ages:
Reaching middle-age
for a rebellious youth
leaves you with two pathway choices.
Try to continue as you are
while remaining cool
or become what you rebelled
against in youth.
Neither is easy or perfect,
and will include falseness,
compromise or both,
but there’s no alternative.
You are not what you were
and while not planning to survive
you continue to be alive.
Reflection 18 (in 2 parts) mirrored The Futility of Life and Death:
I’ve fantasised about creating life, but dreamt about ending my own more. Suicide was my parachute, knowing it was there helped keep my plane on course when it was in trouble.
Vampires are All in the Mind
Molars dig deep
through unconscious neck
into conscious brain
draining lifeblood from mood.
Hourglass inverted
serotonin drains away
you join the living dead
for another day.
Reflection 19 mirrored The Art of Humanity:
Travelling with Janis Joplin
Existential travel
searching for confirmation
only freedom to lose.
Reflection 20 mirrored Summer’s Sunset Soliloquy:
Strength and Death
In youth I felt strong enough to die.
In middle-age I feel my strength dying.
In old age I expect to feel death strengthen.
The book’s available from Amazon for under £3 and under $6, and lots of other currencies for the equivalent prices; and less than £1 or $2 on Kindle, and Smashwords for other ebook readers.
It could be a great present for middle-aged people, and a good one for people of all ages!
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