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AM I TOO TAME

"AM I TOO TAME"
Margaret Ann Waddicor 15th May 2011.

Am I too tame, too sentimental, too sweet,
told that I was sweet last week,
I reacted thinking, is that ALL.

Do I want to be sweet,
and what does that really mean anyway.

I also wish to be bold
and take a challenge in the blood-stained world
of the young
with their horror-loving minds aglow
with dirt and splendour.

Or do I.

Content with my lot,
I see, reflect, and write.
The days are full of things exciting for me
I need no horrors to add to that,
I have food to survive
and feel alive and glad.

The simple happenings of nature
have horrors enough for me,
dead birds and beasts and insects too,
the world goes on its usual course,
disasters strike,
and where I can help I do.

Excitement,
even seeing the sky turn black
the rain pelting down
and jumping up.

It is perhaps my attitude,
or what?
Do I need to add something or not?

Style / type: 
Free verse
Last few words: 
Am I ? Ann
Editing stage: 

Comments

Why even ponder, that which works, what the old saying: " if it ain't broke, why fix it".
be you, because that is what your good at. At any given moment of your life.
Perfection does not exist, I disagree. I look in the mirror every day and say I'm am perfect right now. I believe in living in the now. things may change tomorrow, and at that time I'll be perfect for that situation.
I believe you believe that also.
I did enjoy this prose very much, in it's question of self and change.

Eddie

LIFE ISN'T ABOUT WAITING FOR THE STORM TO PASS
IT'S ABOUT LEARNING HOW TO DANCE IN THE RAIN.
VIVIAN GREENE

Dear Eddie, you are right of course, but then there are those silent critics who find all that I do just sweet, and if that is the case then I feel some turgor is needed to make what I do whole, have all the elements of something good.
I shall continue being me whatever, I don't know if I could be anything else.

Thank you fro passing by and love Ann.

"The image of yourself which you see in a mirror Is dead,
but the reflection of the moon on water, lives." Kenzan.

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You be you, your beautiful self and nothing is wrong with you whatsoever. You tell it like it is no sugar coating and I feel the same.

You can only be you, and no one is like you, so continue on with your great self and your wonderful attitude of life and your writing.

I love you for it
Mona Magics
xoxox

to sound like an ego trip, not a doubt about my syle.
I don't know what to say to your words Mona and Mand,
thank you I expect is best.

You do the same, you are both warm kind people
and they are worth so much in this funny old world of humans.
Ann with lots of love.

"The image of yourself which you see in a mirror Is dead,
but the reflection of the moon on water, lives." Kenzan.

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I love the speciality of you.

Love Mand xxxx

Oh this wasn't to get sympathy, just having the feeling that some of what I do isn't approved of in its way, see what I put on one of Jess's poem saying that the use of "I" is frowned upon in certain circles, but I couldn't care less!!!

Thank you Rosina, thank you.
LuvAnn

"The image of yourself which you see in a mirror Is dead,
but the reflection of the moon on water, lives." Kenzan.

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And Ian, I can say that I sometimes even feel blessed by those angels, if it is they who let me lift the veils of threads that hide things for others sometimes, sometimes, and I feel privileged to exist, so long as it lasts-then I too shall become a part of the big whole.

Thank you and love Ann.

"The image of yourself which you see in a mirror Is dead,
but the reflection of the moon on water, lives." Kenzan.

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Ann, only *you* can answer your question.

However, to ask the question the seed is already in you...a dissonance of being, perhaps.

We all have our personalities which include the *shadow* side, some of us have more shadow than others. I know I feel comfortable around folks who are just being themselves. That is not
easy to take all the time, because the shadow comes out to play when one least expects it.

We enjoyed your presence immensely Ann. We both said you're real in your joyful, innocent manner of looking at the world.

I don't know if I could live with you 24/7. But then that's why long-married folks know how to ignore one another and make allowances for their partner's idiosyncrasies. lol. (I'm learning with Barry,and he with me....surprise! neither one of us are perfect!)

I suppose this really wasn't a poem as much as it was a question to engage us into a conversation about Ann. That's ok, we all do it through our poetry, anyway. The content is as important as the poem's construction.

Love to you and Eric.

~Anna & Barry

Erik and I have few problems and they are unimportant one's; but this poem was because of the modern view of what poetry SHOULD be, as dictated by, I suppose, the poets that are successful and can dominate those who are not. Occasionally there are remarks in the comments about the use of "I" and the use of being personal about poetry etc, and that was why I threw out this thought for you all to peruse and have your say.

There is no sign of dissonance in my life at the moment, I am on top of the world due to NO cancer. And that is great as I can now live my next life.

I agree about living with someone, there are always "things" that get in our way so-to-speak.
I am lucky as I have always chosen people I can live with, or it has ended in parting. I know who I can live with. Of course they have to put up with my idiosyncrasies too and there are probably more than my fair share of those that I have!!!! Poor soles.! :)

Love to you and 'thank you for having me,' putting up with me!!! Joe put up with me too I think!
Ann.

"The image of yourself which you see in a mirror Is dead,
but the reflection of the moon on water, lives." Kenzan.

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All of my life I have been labelled by everyone who knows me as...sweet. I want to be macho. A strong, rugged outdoors kind of guy, but instead I break colts and come inside to write poetry.
Kailashana was probably right when she said this was less a poem than an opportunity to discuss all things Ann. So, in that sense, it wasn't a great poem. However, it was a fruitful conversation as all things Ann are all things to Ann's poetry.
But now, since someone once named me the "Grammar Cop"- The line "Or do I" in the poem...is a question.
All in all, I find Ann is a good thing to know.
wesley

W. H. Snow

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Sweet is good, Wesley. I have loved and run away from macho men and now live with a *good man*. That's good enough.

When women have had *enough* of the macho types, a good man who is sweet-natured is what we'll spend the rest of our lives either searching for or being grateful for....

~A

Each day and are grateful that my wife seems to think so also.
wesley

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