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POETRY CORNER

This page will feature poems that I have written over my lifetime.....


Disappointment
a poem inspired by the many moments that disappointment has arrived unannounced unexpectedly 

 You turn up unannounced
Because who would plan to be disappointed?
You don't think about what impact you have
Like the aunt or uncle everyone dreads seeing
At extended family gatherings
The noisy one who draws attention and deserves nothing
But is willing to take everything if given half a chance
Always taking more than a mile, way more than an inch

Wouldn't it be funny
If disappointment made an appointment?
Sitting carefully in the waiting room
Waiting for you to emerge
So it wouldn't spring an ugly surprise on you
Because it was planned, it had intention
It had every intention of being there
It just wanted to see the look on your face

Disappointment
Not an appointment because nobody plans for you
But when you turn up, nobody knows quite how to deal
Until you show what can quickly happen after you
Have first revealed yourself
Morphing and changing into something else
Like a cake that initially started out great but turned pear shaped
But turned into plan B, something less optimal, but at least
Feeling relieved and less disappointed
And in fact, tasting, not half bad. 




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