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The Mellow Years

The Mellow Years

 

I walk with experience, perspicacity and wisdom

I am no longer a young immature man

Before me now I see the pitfalls

I discern deceit and duplicity from afar

No longer do I act in haste

but ponder and wonder much more

Occasionally I am still taken in

led down a blind alley which goes nowhere

I tread carefully amongst wolves

whilst I try to care for the lambs

Many an old adage and saying I have discarded

I could now write my own

This is the gift of mellow years

often earned through great difficulty 

but always to an ultimate benefit

O for the chance of having all this

from the very beginning

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◄ Sunday

Soggy goings on... ►

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kJ Walker

Sun 21st May 2017 18:54

"I discern deceit and duplicity....." works really well. the mellow pace of the whole poem suit the words.


Kevin

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