BTRIPP (btripp) wrote,
BTRIPP
btripp

A half a dozen poems ... #1

Man ... so little time to work on this stuff these days ... usually I'm able to get the poems typed up over the weekend, but not this time ... anyway ... there are six new ones tonight ... the first of which is here ...


Visit the BTRIPP home page!






                    IN THE TANTALUS ZONE


                    the losses mount,
                    the standards fall,
                    we have slipped
                    to the abyss;
                    yet we are not alone
                    within our fall,
                    others plummet too
                    echoing our screams

                    so many efforts
                    have gone for naught,
                    we strive and fail,
                    make sacrifices
                    which have no point,
                    there's never an answer
                    from the skies
                    nor from the pit

                    laid low here
                    we ache for what we had,
                    not pie in the sky,
                    not fantastic dreams,
                    just what we've lost,
                    what once was ours
                    but now is gone
                    taken by cruel fate

                    a weakness invades,
                    we falter, stumble,
                    only these needs,
                    these damn demands,
                    drive us on;
                    where is there rest,
                    where is there calm,
                    where is there peace?

                    bitterly day
                    allows us to dream
                    forgetting how often
                    dreams are destroyed,
                    enticingly set
                    we savor the prize
                    always beyond grasp
                    in the Tantalus zone



                             - Brendan Tripp
                                06/06/2002

                    Copyright © 2002 by Brendan Tripp
 
 



visit the BTRIPP home page



Subscribe

  • Writing your truth ...

    This is one of those books that was sitting around in my to-be-read piles for years (I got it via one of the B&N after-Xmas on-line clearance…

  • What should be and what not ...

    I thought I was done with having to “pad” orders to get up to free shipping minimums when I signed up for Amazon's “Prime” service, but since their…

  • Falling out ...

    So, maybe it's “just me”, but this seems to be an example of how fickle the serendipity of the dollar store can be. I allow the “just me” option,…

  • Post a new comment

    Error

    default userpic

    Your reply will be screened

    Your IP address will be recorded 

    When you submit the form an invisible reCAPTCHA check will be performed.
    You must follow the Privacy Policy and Google Terms of use.
  • 0 comments