<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441004" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Platitudinous Pleasures</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not attached to platitudinous remarks.<br>As I reflect on particular abilities! <br>Really I am not.<br>Not on this journey I have embarked.<br>Do you honestly believe an ego is attached to this? <br>That some trite comments would give me a lift? <br>Do you realize how long this inside me has existed? <br>If you only knew...<br>More of a communication could have been pursued.<br>I have been on the pursuit of understanding...<br>For quite a few years.<br>Expressing these thoughts, <br>Is a gift to me God has chosen to give.<br>Inside of me still lives...<br>A craving to see others be and live as free! <br>I find that they are not.<br>No...<br>Especially after a glass or two of beer, <br>And/or wine...<br>With a shot of pepperment schnapps! <br>And perhaps...<br>A wee bit of blackberry brandy.<br>To give thoughts like these a start! <br>You see...<br>That's when a 'clarity' comes to visit me! <br>It seems only 'we' who know what this means...<br>Are connected to express, <br>A certain 'clearness' found to inspect.<br>Only to have those explain it as a creative process.<br>But not as a depthness coming from a heart, <br>That others feel free to critique...<br>And rip apart.<br>But not choosing to see or believe, <br>A bleeding of sorts is being done...<br>By those who neither find it a thrill or fun, <br>To have their guts poured to be ignored.<br>And evaluated as a tripping ego, <br>Wishing to be adored! <br>This is not that kind of discipline...<br>To have exposed on the surface, <br>Without 'something' being connected from deep within! <br>Who in their right minds, <br>Would spend their entire lives 'trying' to be defined.<br>If they did not already have definition? <br>That is not the journey...<br>Or the mission! <br>Or the condition of purpose meant.<br>Like the sipping of schnapps that are peppermint.<br>With a twist of lemon and maybe lime to add scent.<br>And losing an effectiveness earlier sent.<br>Now...<br>If that was known, <br>None of this would be necessary! <br>Or revealed as a gift...<br>Given to achieve 'something' believed.<br>Would it? <br>No need to respond.<br>I can handle this! <br>Could it be...<br>Just for useless platitudinous pleasures to receive? <br>And an overglorified ambition, <br>To mentally tease readers? <br>I think not! <br>Anyone who can make some kind of mind attachment...<br>To this rambling inebriated nonsense, <br>In which I am in no condition to repeat...<br>Is welcomed to the last of my brandy.<br>Sharing is one of my greatest talents.<br>And for that, <br>I seek no applause!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441004" data-title="Platitudinous Pleasures de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I am not attached to platitudinous remarks. As I reflect on particular abilities! Really I am not. Not on this journey I have embarked. Do you honestly believe an ego is attached to this? That some trite comments would give me a lift? Do you re..."></div> </div> </div>

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