I regularly put this question to both male and female acquaintances: If reincarnation were a fact, and you had a choice, would you come back as a man or a woman? Results to date indicate that 100% of the males and 57% of the females would come back as a man.

These results may (or may not) have prompted the following:

The Way We Were

Fancy meeting him again,
that remnant of the past.
I thought I’d gotten over him;
was free of him at last.

Then up he pops in Martin Square,
where once we used to meet.
A decade older now, of course,
but my heart skipped a beat.

We stopped awhile for coffee;
I stifled back my tears -
and felt myself dragged back again
across the slow, sad years.

He said he lived alone these days;
he said his wife had died.
I thought about the way we were;
remembered how he’d lied.

He said they’d had a rotten life;
his hand reached out for mine.
So couldn’t we forget the past
and try a second time?

I said I had a plane to catch,
a client waiting there.
But sure, I said, we’d meet again,
right there in Martin Square.

The Good Book says we should forgive;
experience says we don’t.
Perhaps I’ll meet him as agreed,
but then - perhaps, I won’t.

(05-19-2013, 11:09 AM)Pilgrim Wrote:  I regularly put this question to both male and female acquaintances: If reincarnation were a fact, and you had a choice, would you come back as a man or a woman? Results to date indicate that 100% of the males and 57% of the females would come back as a man.

These results may (or may not) have prompted the following:

The Way We Were

Fancy meeting him again,
that remnant of the past.
I thought I’d gotten over him;
was free of him at last.

Then up he pops in Martin Square,
where once we used to meet.
A decade older now, of course,
but my heart skipped a beat.

We stopped awhile for coffee;
I stifled back my tears -
and felt myself dragged back again
across the slow, sad years.

He said he lived alone these days;
he said his wife had died.
I thought about the way we were;
remembered how he’d lied.

He said they’d had a rotten life;
his hand reached out for mine.
So couldn’t we forget the past
and try a second time?

I said I had a plane to catch,
a client waiting there.
But sure, I said, we’d meet again,
right there in Martin Square.

The Good Book says we should forgive;
experience says we don’t.
Perhaps I’ll meet him as agreed,
but then - perhaps, I won’t.

I do love a good story and you tell it so well, I say arrange the meet then stand him up, one small bump in the last line of S2 need a bit more on the meter perhaps (but my heart still skipped a beat. Anyway good fun and very much enjoyed. TOMH

(05-21-2013, 08:36 AM)TimeOnMyHands Wrote:  

(05-19-2013, 11:09 AM)Pilgrim Wrote:  I regularly put this question to both male and female acquaintances: If reincarnation were a fact, and you had a choice, would you come back as a man or a woman? Results to date indicate that 100% of the males and 57% of the females would come back as a man.

These results may (or may not) have prompted the following:

The Way We Were

Fancy meeting him again,
that remnant of the past.
I thought I’d gotten over him;
was free of him at last.

Then up he pops in Martin Square,
where once we used to meet.
A decade older now, of course,
but my heart skipped a beat.

We stopped awhile for coffee;
I stifled back my tears -
and felt myself dragged back again
across the slow, sad years.

He said he lived alone these days;
he said his wife had died.
I thought about the way we were;
remembered how he’d lied.

He said they’d had a rotten life;
his hand reached out for mine.
So couldn’t we forget the past
and try a second time?

I said I had a plane to catch,
a client waiting there.
But sure, I said, we’d meet again,
right there in Martin Square.

The Good Book says we should forgive;
experience says we don’t.
Perhaps I’ll meet him as agreed,
but then - perhaps, I won’t.

I do love a good story and you tell it so well, I say arrange the meet then stand him up, one small bump in the last line of S2 need a bit more on the meter perhaps (but my heart still skipped a beat. Anyway good fun and very much enjoyed. TOMH

Hello, TimeOnMyHands. Thank you for your comments.

The last line of each stanza has 6 beats. To have added a word to that line of S2 would have thrown the meter.

Regards,

Pilgrim.

pretty strange, chance encounters. in montana, chance encounters seem to be the norm. it is funny what like gives you it is like a deck of blank cards, each for your to design.
if only our lives were at simple as pokemon or magic

(05-21-2013, 09:44 AM)Pilgrim Wrote:  

(05-21-2013, 08:36 AM)TimeOnMyHands Wrote:  

(05-19-2013, 11:09 AM)Pilgrim Wrote:  I regularly put this question to both male and female acquaintances: If reincarnation were a fact, and you had a choice, would you come back as a man or a woman? Results to date indicate that 100% of the males and 57% of the females would come back as a man.

These results may (or may not) have prompted the following:

The Way We Were

Fancy meeting him again,
that remnant of the past.
I thought I’d gotten over him;
was free of him at last.

Then up he pops in Martin Square,
where once we used to meet.
A decade older now, of course,
but my heart skipped a beat.

We stopped awhile for coffee;
I stifled back my tears -
and felt myself dragged back again
across the slow, sad years.

He said he lived alone these days;
he said his wife had died.
I thought about the way we were;
remembered how he’d lied.

He said they’d had a rotten life;
his hand reached out for mine.
So couldn’t we forget the past
and try a second time?

I said I had a plane to catch,
a client waiting there.
But sure, I said, we’d meet again,
right there in Martin Square.

The Good Book says we should forgive;
experience says we don’t.
Perhaps I’ll meet him as agreed,
but then - perhaps, I won’t.

I do love a good story and you tell it so well, I say arrange the meet then stand him up, one small bump in the last line of S2 need a bit more on the meter perhaps (but my heart still skipped a beat. Anyway good fun and very much enjoyed. TOMH

Hello, TimeOnMyHands. Thank you for your comments.

The last line of each stanza has 6 beats. To have added a word to that line of S2 would have thrown the meter.

Regards,

Pilgrim.

You are correct, sorry I missed that, suffice to say then, I stumbled on the last line of S2 the word 'but' doesn't seem to fit IMO but as we have already established I am very often wrong.