Re: Tired of Waiting / poem by Will Dockery

[email protected] (George J. Dance) Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:40:31 -0400
Newsgroups alt.arts.poetry.comments
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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. 


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