<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443299" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>THAT, I Do Know</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You see this? <br>I've been doing it, <br>Most of my life.<br>Writing.<br>I began in the '50's<br>The nineteen fifties.<br>With little or no encouragement, <br>At all that I could see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">OH...<br>My mom use to buy my sister<br>And I writing pads and finger painting sets<br>to keep me from writing on the walls.<br>And...<br>I guess a few spankings supplied an incentive! <br>Now that I remember certain events.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was my sister Mimmie, <br>Who discovered I could write poetry.<br>And she didn't believe me.<br>People 'assume' I was nourished, <br>And encouraged by my parents.<br>I don't think they knew what I did, <br>To be honest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was born 'this creative being'.<br>With demands I made.<br>No one 'gave' me a thing, <br>But a headache.<br>With a parade of negative comments, <br>About my exposed interests.<br>They assigned to being a little effeminate.<br>But I played ball and stuff like that.<br>I wasn't hung up on gender! <br>That is more expressed today, <br>Than in those days I grew up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So...<br>I am quite amazed today, <br>Especially...<br>That someone would ask me 'how'<br>I do 'this' and what they need to know...<br>To do 'that'? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Gee, I don't know what to say.<br>Or how to say anything at all about it.<br>Uh...you...uh...well? ...I...uh...Gee.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes I'm left speechless.<br>I just know...<br>If it is something done that is loved, <br>It will discover a way to express itself.<br>THAT, <br>Is what I have discovered over many years, <br>Of unrelentless devotion.</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=443299" data-title="THAT, I Do Know de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="You see this? I've been doing it, Most of my life. Writing. I began in the '50's The nineteen fifties. With little or no encouragement, At all that I could see. OH... My mom use to buy my sister And I writing pads and finger painting sets to k..."></div> </div> </div>

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