Our reflections on anything can lead to very mixed emotions, but how do we feel about thinking back on our day, or even days?
We should be philosophical and accept that we will all have good days and bad days, or even good or bad longer periods too. More importantly it is how we deal with these bad, frustrating or disagreeable days that will mark our life. I was brought up to count my blessings and be “thankful for small mercies” as my dear mum used to put it, and to this day still try to do that.
I have also got into a habit of looking back over the day to recognise how it went, allowing some small congratulations to myself for perceived “successes” or good bits, whilst recognising and trying to learn from less happy events. Perhaps you do this too?
Anyway as ever I will turn to my poems to describe what I’m saying and perhaps strike a chord with it as well! To that end I present the first poem in this article and from my 3rd book Reviews of Life in Verse, with the poem called “Daze End”.
Daze End
Sitting in my favourite chair
In my most comfortable way,
Looking back at hours passed
To reflect how went the day?
Well some go very well
And others not so good,
So in the scheme of life
That must be understood.
But more important than this
Is your dealing with it all,
Smiling with the good days
Should give no cause to fall.
But what about the bad times
That can also arrive too?
Can we get up if knocked down
May define both me and you?
So how well the day went is crucial
But our responses so much more,
For if you react to adversity
Your life will be more secure,
Than if you just roll over
Bleating about your lack of luck,
So if not standing your own ground
You may regret your lack of pluck!
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Yes “reflecting” in my favourite chair, or sometimes in my bed, is often very interesting, and lasts much longer some times than others before I fall asleep, depending on the time or how tired I am. I do though, always find it rewarding, with on occasions a recall of some seemingly little event I had briefly forgotten, but was quite important to bring back to my mind.
Of course as I mentioned earlier I have always counted my blessings and never looked back with regrets and recriminations, as we can’t change times that have passed, only learn from them. Sadly it seems many do. I have tried to express this in my next poem called aptly “Days of Tears”.
Days of Tears
Days of tears will come for everyone
But for some will last much longer,
Depending on those choices made
Are you weaker, or lots stronger?
For we’re living today, decisions past
When maybe didn’t count to ten,
So whether we like it now or not
We must accept life as decided then.
Though possibly in previous times
Those options did seem right,
So now you must live with them
However hard they come to bite!
A wrong lover or chance declined
May seem sad in the here and now,
But reflecting back to decision time
You were so certain of your vow.
Perhaps to be childless did appeal
Rocking to your very own way,
But in days of flowing tears now
Accept your loneliness today.
For days of tears will always come
With regrets, and perhaps sorrow,
So best to count every blessing now
Or you may cry at each tomorrow.
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Days of tears then, and I’m sure we have all had those, at least for a brief time if not for a longer. So maybe I guess people might also consider the wisdom of “reflecting” if it is too painful to look back, but obviously that is a matter of individual opinions and perhaps how comfortable people are within themselves. Oh dear we have started to sail into choppy waters, but I will say again that I see this as the province of poetry and certainly my style of writing down my observations of the world and our experiences in it!
So now we seem to have arrived at the personal choice of how we live and consider our lives or “Days” as Ray Davies and his band “The Kinks” sang about all those years ago! Once again then the thoughts, decisions and your covenant with life is up to you, so reflect and consider well.
Before closing this latest monthly offering I will share one of my personal behaviours and comforts to me, thus I present a poem called Darkness” and from my 2nd book “More Poetic Views of Life”.
Darkness
Some people don’t like the dark
Others it just makes scared,
But there can be a comfort too
If all your soul you’ve bared.
Turning out the night time bulb
As if the power has all blown,
Can put you in a covering veil
Like in some protected zone.
Tired eyes will have their rest
And an aching body its ease,
So you can be lost in yourself
Where no one has the keys.
Many people cannot cope with this
It releases all their fears,
Some with recent broken hearts
Will collapse in flooding tears.
For any aching of the soul
Will damage the weak and brittle,
Leaving them knocked all about
Just as if they were a skittle.
But I can be at one with dark
So long as I have a beam,
To turn on if I feel the need
For I like my dark fed dream.
These take away the daytime trials
Which can leave us all aggrieved,
Thus slipping into my warm dark
My soul will feel relieved.
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Darkness would appear to be a very apt ending of “days” then, and “reflecting” as the sun sets, so on that conclusion I wish you all the best of days and reflections upon them!
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