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Today Is …


02.07.12 Posted in today's words by

Christopher Roe’s most recent poem to appear here was The Mating Dance, published as part of Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags (November 2011).

Today Is … 
By Christopher Roe

 … for letting go
of all your yesterdays
to grab onto tomorrow

 … the purgatory
shapes of all of your tomorrows
with the strength of your intent

 … the honest sweat
of yesterday’s exertions
before the coming showers

 … nothing new
just as tomorrow can be
yesterday returned

 … what you feel
while making memories
for tomorrow to consume

 … merely a chance
based on chances taken
for the gamble of tomorrow

 … only the hope
between passion’s promise
and the shudder before the sigh

 … where we share
yesterday’s love made new
for tomorrow’s endless dawn.



3 Responses to “Today Is …”

  1. Sari says:

    I see layers in this poem.

  2. bobbie troy says:

    Hopeful with a tinge of sentimentality.

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