A Reunion Imperative for dVerse Poets

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Upon Running into a Former Best Friend

Don’t give me cause to regret our reunion.
Don’t bring back to mind our former disunion.
Don’t lament my career or cuss at my kids—
those actions that once put us into the skids—
dissolving our friendship and our former ties
when I’d had enough of your conniving lies.
Don’t inveigle or bemoan your lack of a pension.
Past times I’ve come through I won’t bother to mention.
And if you’ve a reaction and want to explode,
do me a favor. Take it on the road!!!

For dVerse Poets...an Imperative Poem

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My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

24 thoughts on “A Reunion Imperative for dVerse Poets”

  5. Dora's avatarDora

    LOL, Judy! I don’t know how you did it but the tension of such a reunion (common to us all!) in your poem for me just dissipates into one of such humor and wit that I feel however it goes, the last word will be yours! Impeccable meter and rhyme — of the sort that makes me re-read out of pure poetic pleasure. 🙌🙂

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      I think there always are regrets as we can remember better times at the beginning of the friendship. We long for those times, not the ones near the end of the friendship.

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  8. Lisa or Li's avatarLisa or Li

    You said a mouthful in this one, and it sounds like for good reason. Each one of them can be the proverbial nail in the coffin that kills a friendship. You call me back to the loss of a friendship that lasted through 40 years or so, starting when we were both 10. It pains me to think about it ending even now but at the same time it needed to happen. Great theme for the prompt, Judy. Hoping it was pure fiction.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      I think I took that photo in a tiny village we stopped at when Patti and I took a cruise through the Greek Islands. I get all the names mixed up. That was actually the complete width of the street!

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