Re: Tired of Waiting / poem by Will Dockery
[email protected] (George J. Dance) Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:40:31 -0400
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> Will Dockery wrote: > On Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 2:46:02 PM UTC-4, George Dance wrote: > >> On Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 11:22:31 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: >> Tired of Waiting >> >> You tired of walking >> streets >> where we waited for you. >> >> Cruel daybreak >> tortures me with sound >> and memory of >> your street corner smile. >> >> Dreams reveal too much >> to remember: >> >> From black seedless midnight >> to feverish broad daylight >> you never get older. >> >> You stand >> in the dark >> dark side of the cold. >> >> Spring is trapped >> in the crystal. >> >> -Will Dockery >> >> A poem that got mislaid in the shuffle... >> >> I read it during the instrumental break in Blue Oyster Cult's "Burning for You." Nice... >> > > > Cutting through the dozens of troll posts from Corey, thanks again, George. > > 😀 Found it, in December 2025. You allude above to how it got there; it was bumped by "dozens of troll posts from Cujo" and NastyGoon. This response appears in the discussion at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=659131964#659131964 -- Via JLA Forums web gateway for alt.arts.poetry.comments: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655