Bryan Taplits

The thing with age that lets you down-
until you figuratively creep on the ground,
Retrieving what no longer is there
A quest imprinted-no longer found.
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I paid her once a compliment
Flattered, she fluttered her eyes,
Yes, I was preparing for another affair-
So I got ready for my new enterprise.
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What a store and a delight-
A stratagem which I believe,
A fevered fount
(Where votes all count) -
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A cloud came out, the sun went in
More drizzle was my life
I prayed then hoped-but just got rope-
My heart: All slice and diced!
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There's nowhere that I need to go,
Nowhere but release.
No 'intramural fantasies',
I've fought and tamed my beast.
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This day dealt me such an omen,
That slayed- but it was a start
My sordid plan? I‘ll be damned-
Was a pretext we both should part.
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Once the sky shone sweet and clear
Once no smile was not from a friend
But now, 'My Dear'One''-
once come, now gone-
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Every vitality shares a flipside worth,
the colors all assigned,
As the tinctures of Seasons sally forth
Leaving footprints of hues behind.
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A lesson learned, a page now turned-
The sands drop quick but firm,
All Wonders have released their awe
Emotions start to burn.
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There was a day, not long ago,
This giant said to me
'Regard your friends and recall your foes
'Then you'll never need retreat.
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A totem-
and a wisp of smoke,
Redolence that's re-sent.
Recalling a tale of what was once-
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The miracles that I see
Are everywhere arrayed,
From morning dawns
of salmon suns
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This tune is just a ditty-
A hapless, chiseled play:
My lust is now in never-land-
Again resurgent (I hope) some later day.
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I almost taste it still,
those Springs when I was young,
The air was clear, its taste so dear,
the winds whipped out their song.
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Recalling now those years ago
The days of once sublime
I shiver still, my eyes in tow,
For that Girl I Left Behind.
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The race is lost-although I ran,
And when I did I flew,
I won some swag-but 'Oh, so what, '
The prize I yearned was you.
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Those days were long-
but also short-
The nights so warm, now chill,
The love you served when I loved you-
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Grateful for my age-
No longer licking lips-
Born to be a Cavalier-
Not yielding to slights nor slips.
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Repellent are those
languid ways
That once were gold to me,
Resigned I am
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The ride you gave me, Sweets,
Conveyed me to a new bliss,
But then I left and called another cab
To take me to where I'd missed.
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