“Longing,” For Lens Artists Challenge 365

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Longing

This morning’s church bells’ constant bongings
woke me to familiar longings.
Coded as they were in dreams,
when I awoke, they split their seams
and spilled into my conscious thought.
Futile to yearn for what I’m not.
No longer young or lithe or trim,
no passions spilling from my brim.
No husband, mother, father, lover.
No guardians to watch and hover.
I’ve grown away from most of life,
connections severed as with a knife.
Still, I do not long for these.
I do not pray on bended knees
for what is past or what is lost,
for I know pining’s pain and cost.
My longing, now, is just to see
what life’s plot is left to me.

For Lens Artists Chanllenge, the prompt is “Longing.”

25 thoughts on ““Longing,” For Lens Artists Challenge 365”

    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Thanks, Egidio. Lots, still, in my life, but I think there is a value in aging and being more or less forced to turn from past more active things to affairs of the mind and one’s immediate surroundings.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      There are so many blogging friends of long duration I wish I could meet in person. Including, of course, you, Regina. –Judy (Suddenly, WP is wanting me to log in to leave a reply, so I’ll sign this lest they list me as Anonymous!!!

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Thanks, Sunil. I was at the beach over Thanksgiving two years ago and children kept coming up to us selling these wonderful animals. I couldn’t resist. By the end of the 4 days we were ther, I’d bought 13 assorted animals. These lions were my favorites. They’ve since all been given away.

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