Looking Out, Looking In

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Looking Out, Looking In

Folks look in my window every hour every day
when they view my photographs or what I have to say.
It isn’t that I have a need to publicize or flout.
They are just a way to let a part of myself out.

When I’m outside the room of me, looking here and there,
it’s like I am a voyeur. I pry and prod and stare.
The window might steam over, obscuring what I see.
Then I wipe it clear again to see what I might be.

I really just write what I see as I’m peering in.
Each failure and each triumph, each kindness and each sin.
Each interior arrangement has some ugliness, some beauties.
I hold inside life’s pleasures, her sadness and her duties.

Each poem that I’ve written—be it whisper, be it shout––
is a way for me to let a part of myself out.
And if you choose to view them and see where I have been,
You’re standing at my window with permission to look in.

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13 thoughts on “Looking Out, Looking In”

  1. Olga's avatarOlga

    Love how you referred to different aspects of one’s life and moments as a window. We look in or we look out. Others look in when we let them. Striking aqua coloring in your photos.

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  5. Anna Sime's avatarAnna Sime

    I just love this. I even think I want to print it out and frame it and display it and talk about I with whomever might see it. Would you let me do it if they is what I decide to do (giving you credit, of course).

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      1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

        Ah.. don’t know if you are talking about one of the photos or the poem but it is fine with me for you to duplicate either…If it is a photo, let me send it in a better resolution, though. Let me know which one… Judy

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