Can't Learn an Old Dog new Tricks

Can't Learn an Old Dog new Tricks

 

 

I bought and read Strunk and White's 

Elements of Style

and did not see anything familiar

to that thing I call writing

 

there are Elements

no Style

just a rollercoaster ride

of free verse

 

and screaming when I get 

to the top of a thought

and precariously hold on to the 

rail of it

 

when the ride stops, I disembark

from my barking tirade

of "all over the place" spew

still thinking of you

 

and how missing you has

deteriorated my penmanship

the format of my life

and the technical aspects

 

of what I try to still call

a heart.

 

 

erin-cilberto

6/4/2021

Reviews

[Relic]

Love gets messy sometimes even if you try to do the right things. The ups and downs after it's over can be a bit much.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

So true, thank you, Relic,
j.

[Ted Kniffen]

The only thing I learned from scream therapy ... silly rabbit, tricks are for kids, and penmanship is a lost art.

good one j.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I love Tricks....great cereal..
Thanks for your words, yes, penmanship? what is that?

[Lorry]

The foreword of an artist, trying so valiantly to explain the inexplicable insidey headworkings of a life that grew from then to now, in what now seems to be the blinking of an eye that is the life you live and learn from with every written word.
And long may it continue.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your wise words, Lorry,
j.

[Chris Shaw]

Life is a roller-coaster ride. We have to take the rough with the smooth. No one else can do it for you. Soft hearts always suffer most J.

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Yes, that is a sad fact, they do...thank you, Chris,
j.

[Touché Armada]

To not diminish your artistry ... Fabulous. I love it.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Armada,
j.

[andrew mitchell]

Same heart same heartaches. Yes it is a roller coaster ride riding the highs and lows. Maybe old dogs fall for the same traps too.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, we do...thank you, andrew,
j.