I really didn't want to do this one...

No, that title isn't true... mostly it's my sense of humour in a phase of hilarious punch-lines equating to lame puns or weak paradoxes.

So today's #Reverb10 Prompt? Well, it sounds a bit like preventing (or analyzing) regret... in a way? Well, you decide. But my response will include a poem so I can also submit it to the Poetry Potluck at Jingle Poetry.

2010 Reflective Prompt #20
Beyond avoidance: What should you have done this year but didn't because you were too scared, worried, unsure, busy or otherwise deterred from doing? (Bonus: Will you do it?)

My List

There were long lines

spaces too rare

waiting and doing

avoiding a snare.

I checked off pragmatics

I conquered a fear

I completed my goals

and missed something dear

now that I'm leaving

I finally see

many bleak days of toil

were really time to be free.

Too hurried to enjoy

rather scurry than wait,

and at the end of this employ-

ment, I know now - it's been great.

a less poetic translation

of what I just said

sometimes work is more

then what was stuck in my head.

Some days I was down
on my job- it's apparent

were all just great chances for my

perspective to be transparent

not that I lost all shots

to learn something new

I know I did many times

but missed quite a few...

poem by LyndiaP December 20, 2010