TRIP TO ELTHAM PALACE POEM 10

Sometimes when you lose something, you gain something. Perhaps it is the way of life or the universe - to make room for the new, you must make space. Moving on can be painful, as the familiar is comforting. It also can be renewing and make you stronger, as the familiarity is no longer necessary to you.

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"To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest ... " H.P. Lovecraft

Beyond

Beyond the crowd upon a hill,

The palace lay,

Content and quiet in austere

Melancholic grandeur it overlooked

A pleasant land full of pasture

With poetic landscape and remembrance

Of adventure and crisis alone.

The trees had grown so high and deep,

The ancients could have resided

There within,

Their leaves frolicking with ancient

Grandeur as their ballast.

How precious are the moments that

We cherish and hidden from view

There is nothing to stop true love’s vow

Being encased in our childish kisses.

Full figured, blossomed and chaste,

Hidden from view,

Our love was grown.

"Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand." Sophie Kinsella

Sometimes in life, I've felt that it is better to be the first to move, so as not to feel like you are the one left behind. As lonely as you can feel when you are travelling or moving to a new place, there is so much to do and so many people to see, just to get your life in order that there is no time for regret. The internet gives us so much access to our friends internationally, so I feel that I am this way close to my friends. This was how I started sharing my poems - and now I share them with you!