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Oh, to go back to eighteen
And...
Do things differently
My life would be so much
More who I am now...
On the inside
To have done what I really wanted
Not...
What was expected
I knew then I could write
Yet...
Took the safe path...
A path that led me to thirty-seven years
steeped deeply in all aspects of
Education
However...
Had I taken the other path...
That same thirty-seven years
would have been spent
Writing
Instead...
with retirement...
I am allowing that
Writer to emerge...
escape the confines of others
And...
Freely fill white pages lined in blue
with thoughts...
poetry...
stories of all types
Being the me I always knew
was there
Oh...
To have had a poetry teacher
like Mary Oliver and her dog, Ben
© 2013 Annie Original Poetry
Always…I wish you peace, joy and happiness, but most of all I wish you Love.
As Ever, Annie
And...
Do things differently
My life would be so much
More who I am now...
On the inside
To have done what I really wanted
Not...
What was expected
I knew then I could write
Yet...
Took the safe path...
A path that led me to thirty-seven years
steeped deeply in all aspects of
Education
However...
Had I taken the other path...
That same thirty-seven years
would have been spent
Writing
Instead...
with retirement...
I am allowing that
Writer to emerge...
escape the confines of others
And...
Freely fill white pages lined in blue
with thoughts...
poetry...
stories of all types
Being the me I always knew
was there
Oh...
To have had a poetry teacher
like Mary Oliver and her dog, Ben
© 2013 Annie Original Poetry
Always…I wish you peace, joy and happiness, but most of all I wish you Love.
As Ever, Annie
This poem was inspired after reading The Poetry Teacher by Mary Olive from the Writer's Almanac poem of the day.
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