Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Do you keep lessons taught,
Kept in your mind easily to find?
Are those thoughts within your reach,
To appreciate the ones...
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A disputing one's accomplishments,
To diminish the existence of it...
Does not change the facts,
Of them being documented as proof.
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It takes a doing everyday.
And from it not to stray to stay focused,
On that which is desired, loved and devoted.
With a putting thoughts of doubts and fears away,
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People,
Are committed everyday to deny...
What they do to abuse and who,
When, where and why!
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For me...
The writing of poetry has never come easily.
The doing of it requires strict concentration.
It takes both devotion and discipline.
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If it is wished and kept mentally fixed,
With a wanting inspired by desire...
Keep that dream to touch.
Taste it to know it with a yearning much.
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A trust busted does not mend.
Or heal the pieces to make them invisible.
The effect of it is forever remembered.
And those who say they forgive the act of it,
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Memories from days gone to pass,
Each of us has to declare our own.
Some stung by events that have come,
To go with feelings still kept left unhealed...
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Never be satisfied with just the taste of things.
Know each ingredient and what it takes,
To create that taste with it savored anytime wished.
And never be afraid the flavor you make becomes greater,
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Those who naysay the strides made by others,
To ignore or dismiss their deeds as being worthless.
With a negativity promoted to invoke jokes upon their deeds,
Will never mention the time they have given to these folks...
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