Thursday December 9, 2010 Tuesday Theme/ Poets United

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Theme Thursday/ Prompt: Test

Test
The idea of a test can be tricky,
As much as you might like,
A test is rarely fun,
More like a trip to the dentist.

You have a sick feeling in your stomach,
Your hands are clammy,
You mouth is dry,
And visions of horrors dance in your head.

Our first tests probably were,
Games like hop-scotch,
Marbles, checkers, tick-tack-toe,
These tested our skills,
And always seems fun.
But it was a preparation.

In school the tests got harder,
Tested what you learned,
These were difficult for a girl,
Who talked too much,
Had her head in the clouds,
Rarely touched feet to ground.

For years after college,
Though this never happened,
I dreamed it many times.
I attended class,
The professor asked everyone,
To get out his blue books.

It must have been a terrible fear,
One day I would go to class,
Totally unprepared,
I would have forgotten everything.

As we move through life,
The tests get harder.
They aren't about grades,
But life and death are involved.
Each day is a day in the lab of life,
Experimenting, learning,
Testing results.

It seems the successes are never as high
A the failures are low,
With each failure,
We dive deep,
To explore the murky depths,
We chid ourselves,
With -- we should have known,
Should have done better.

We stumble forward,
Sometimes beat up,
Black and blue,
Bruised and battered.

The fighter in the ring,
Testing our strength,
And what we know.
The sound of the bell,
It's just fight night, after all,
Just another test.

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Poets United; The Thursday Think Tank, Prompt -- Forgiveness
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To forgive and to forget is difficult,
Perhaps you can do it,
It takes a better man than I.
But I would say it depends on the offense,
And the sincerity of the apology,

If you are the offender,
Apologize right away,
From the bottom of your heart,
And accept all consequences.

If you have been offended,
It is important to learn from past experience,
Stay vigilant.
Do not put yourself in position to,
Wake up to find a gun to your head.