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Tag Archives: maturity
Lose Your “Authentic” Self
It feels like not that many years ago there was an interest, almost a “movement” if you will, to seek out and embrace our “authenticity”, to “get real” with ourselves and our world, and cut through all the game-playing to get back to the essentials of human living. Continue reading
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Tagged authenticity, culture, maturity, pointlessness, reality, self-deception
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High School Reunion Musical
Someone told me once we never grow beyond the point we turn the age eighteen: what insecurities we carried then still manifest themselves throughout our lives. That makes those speeches every June (you know the ones that say life’s just … Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged blank verse, daily poems, high school, maturity, reunions, sonnet
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With an Unarmed Foe
You call those claws? Withdraw those nubs, and come back when your talons grow; I have no time to make retort against the feeble likes of you. You say the world agrees with you? Well, that just proves the world … Continue reading
Here is the Crossroads
Here is the crossroads where you finally know you’re too old to say you’ll die young. It’s early summer; fall’s on the horizon. Your spring has most definitely sprung. It’s not about giving up on your wild days, but some … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, commitment, crossroads, decisions, growth, maturity, youth
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‘Til I Die
Maybe I’m a dreamer, but I sure don’t want to be one of those two old guys sitting in the balcony: a grizzled, bitter muppet who makes fun of everything and never gets up off his ass, and on the … Continue reading
The World is a Small Town
Don’t want much, but that’s all right Nothing much happens here on Saturday night Get laid, get drunk, get in a fight Maybe all three Maybe at the same time Don’t need nothing, but that’s OK Nothing much here to … Continue reading
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Tagged expectations, happiness, history, individuality, limitations, maturity, small towns
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If You’re Not Growing
Some of my old friends seem the same year after year: just like they were in high school, at the start of their careers They talk in careful circles around where they ought to be; and most of them still … Continue reading
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Tagged disappointment, growth, maturity, personal history, regret, success
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