Sigh

by Phil Laws   May 8, 2016


Sigh
I
Try
This key
To see
For me
And it's real
Life is zeal
If you feel
Even appalled
Focus is stalled
Failures recalled
That I can't forget
Unlike goals I set
So I live with it
But It's all in my mind
With gain and loss I find
Intricately combined
With self-punishment and praise
The appraisal it portrays
As selection of a phrase
In re-enactments of my thought
Reactions that reflection bought
As always asserting the sought

As always asserting the sought
Reactions that reflection bought
In re-enactments of my thought
As selection of a phrase
The appraisal it portrays
With self-punishment and praise
Intricately combined
With gain and loss I find
But It's all in my mind
So I live with it
Unlike goals I set
That I can't forget
Failures recalled
Focus is stalled
Even appalled
If you feel
Life is zeal
And it's real
For me
To see
This key
Try
I
Sigh

PAL 12-12-08

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  • 7 years ago

    by Em

    Love this, very unique.

    I will be sure to nominate when I get my votes back because I've never seen anything like this.

    Em

    • 7 years ago

      by Phil Laws

      Thank you. This is one of my 40+hours of painstaking piecework projects. I actually wrote and erased 2 copies each time I tried a line or set of lines to see it forward and backwards.

      Not an over 80 hour work, but I only have 20 or so of those.

    • 7 years ago

      by Phil Laws

      The Wait Cycle and I,Am,I are 2 others I wrote that I consider similar in ways. The 3 line sets of increasing syllables was a whim I rolled with. I've also done more similar in that way but would have to read through many to find them.

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