Wisdom!! User ID: 16344097 United States 11/30/2012 05:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The double life ---- YES YOU HAVE TO LIVES!!! This is your double life!!
“The Double Life” — By Don Blandin (1894-1957)
How very simple life would be If only there were two of me A Restless Me to drift and roam A Quiet Me to stay at home. A Searching One to find his fill Of varied skies and newfound thrill While sane and homely things are done By the domestic Other One.
And that’s just where the trouble lies; There is a Restless Me that cries For chancy risks and changing scene, For arctic blue and tropic green, For deserts with their mystic spell, For lusty fun and raising Hell,
But shackled to that Restless Me My Other Self rebelliously Resists the frantic urge to move. It seeks the old familiar groove That habits make. It finds content With hearth and home — dear prisonment, With candlelight and well-loved books And treasured loot in dusty nooks,
With puttering and garden things And dreaming while a cricket sings And all the while the Restless One Insists on more exciting fun, It wants to go with every tide, No matter where…just for the ride. Like yowling cats the two selves brawl Until I have no peace at all.
One eye turns to the forward track, The other eye looks sadly back. I’m getting wall-eyed from the strain, (It’s tough to have an idle brain) But One says “Stay” and One says “Go” And One says “Yes,” and One says “No,” And One Self wants a home and wife And One Self craves the drifter’s life.
The Restless Fellow always wins I wish my folks had made me twins!! ~ Don Blandin
Your thoughts are welcome!! |
natasha77
User ID: 28641059 United States 11/30/2012 05:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The double life ---- YES YOU HAVE TO LIVES!!! You mean TWO lives as in (2)? SPEAK UP. SILENCE IS DEADLY!
I am currently experiencing life at several WTFs per hour. |
wwwasp
User ID: 6051697 United States 11/30/2012 05:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The double life ---- YES YOU HAVE TO LIVES!!! wow.
"We all have two lives: The true one we dream in childhood And continue to dream as adults in a misty substrate; The false one we live among others, The practical life, the useful life –It ends up sticking us in a coffin."
alvaro de campos. |
wwwasp
User ID: 6051697 United States 11/30/2012 05:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The double life ---- YES YOU HAVE TO LIVES!!! double exclamation points, btw...
wind beneath my wings, indeed...
xo. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 16344097 United States 11/30/2012 05:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The double life ---- YES YOU HAVE TO LIVES!!! You mean TWO lives as in (2)?
Quoting: natasha77 Correct and thank you, I meant *TWO* tks, but hope you liked the poem! |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 16344097 United States 11/30/2012 06:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The double life ---- YES YOU HAVE TO LIVES!!! double exclamation points, btw...
wind beneath my wings, indeed...
xo.
Quoting: wwwasp You must mean these !! lol Again double exclamation points!! lol |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 16344097 United States 11/30/2012 06:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The double life ---- YES YOU HAVE TO LIVES!!!
double exclamation points, btw...
wind beneath my wings, indeed...
xo.
Quoting: wwwasp You must mean these !! lol Again double exclamation points!! lol Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16344097 I know crazy right!! ? !! |
wwwasp
User ID: 6051697 United States 11/30/2012 06:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The double life ---- YES YOU HAVE TO LIVES!!! its all crazy......woop. |
wwwasp
User ID: 6051697 United States 11/30/2012 06:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The double life ---- YES YOU HAVE TO LIVES!!! what'll be next? double comma's??
oh wait. |
wisc_natureboy
User ID: 28714480 United States 11/30/2012 06:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The double life ---- YES YOU HAVE TO LIVES!!! Loved it. Thanks OP. We all breathe the same air. .-.. --- ...- . / .- .-.. .-.. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28790770 Germany 11/30/2012 06:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The double life ---- YES YOU HAVE TO LIVES!!! In both lives op has, he dosen't have spell check! |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 16344097 United States 11/30/2012 06:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The double life ---- YES YOU HAVE TO LIVES!!! In both lives op has, he dosen't have spell check!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28790770 lol To those elected Genius!! Maybe its not a spell check but merely a typo! Ever think of that in the speed of things :p O I forgot you were elected Genius to speak and assume for US! lol |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 16344097 United States 11/30/2012 07:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The double life ---- YES YOU HAVE TO LIVES!!!
In both lives op has, he dosen't have spell check!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28790770 lol To those elected Genius!! Maybe its not a spell check but merely a typo! Ever think of that in the speed of things :p O I forgot you were elected Genius to speak and assume for US! lol Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16344097 Amen! |
wwwasp
User ID: 14619508 United States 11/30/2012 07:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The double life ---- YES YOU HAVE TO LIVES!!! "...i want you to know i know the truuuuth...of course i know it..."
single tear. slow roll. |