Stan Galloway’s most recent poem to appear here was The Old Knight (October 2012).
FWB
By Stan Galloway
I have not understood
what friendship was or is
for all these years,
and so have been
without its benefits,
but lately I am willing
to be taught.
what friendship was or is
for all these years,
and so have been
without its benefits,
but lately I am willing
to be taught.
Just open your mind and heart; it will happen.
Sometimes it takes a long time to “get it.” Then, when we think that we finally understand what things in life are important, it’s almost over!
Thanks for the encouragement Jeanette and Bobbie. These last couple of poems printed at vox have been less . . . happy than usual, but that is not an indicator of present circumstances, just that sometimes the more comtemplative part of life takes over in the poetic process. And publication chronology is always a distortion of writing chronology. Never tell an editor how old a poem is, let the poem speak for itself.