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The Book Club :
Poems about infidelity

Topic is Sleeping.
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 bluepoppycat (original poster member #49679) posted at 5:09 PM on Monday, October 19th, 2015

The AP sent WS a LOT of poetry. I've been finding myself reading my old poetry books again, and of course just finding the theme of infidelity and hurt. CK Williams Dream of the Mind has a few, and I found these by Olav Hague

Slowly the Truth Dawns

To wake, to know

your heart sinks

dark and heavy

hardening into stone

Slowly the sea lifts its waves

Slowly the trees turn red in the gorge

Slowly the fires begin to lap in hell

Slowly the truth dawns

and

One Word

One Stone

across a cold river

It will take a lot more stones

if I'm going to get over.

any others that people might share or recommend ?

Me BS - 47 at the time
Him WS - 52 at the time
together - 10 years
DD 1 - 19/7/15 PA
DD 2 - 11/9/15 EA NC broken a week after being established (same OW) thought they could be 'friends'

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looking forward ( member #25238) posted at 9:54 PM on Monday, October 19th, 2015

This is a poem my husband wrote and gave to me on my 60th birthday.

Changes

I find myself now in the 'autumn' of my years.

Never would have guessed

it would be filled with so many tears.

The seasons of my life

Have passed so quickly by

My memories have blown away

Like leaves blown through the sky.

The ones I loved and counted on

Had changed their colours too

The garden that I lived in..

Was changed from green to blue.

My autumn's here, my days grow short.

Winter's not far away..

The life that I have left to live

Might be but just a day.

So as I watch the leaves turn red..

To orange and yellow too..

I ponder my life's journey

In my Autumn spent with you.

And when my winter's end arrives

And death's cold grip takes hold

I'll think of you and me and us

Our love story has been told.

Together 56 years, Married 51 years. Sober since 2009. "You've always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself." (The Wizard of Oz)

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Opinionsplease ( member #47624) posted at 9:28 AM on Tuesday, October 20th, 2015

Strongly recommend

Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband.

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Opinionsplease ( member #47624) posted at 9:29 AM on Tuesday, October 20th, 2015

Strongly recommend

Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband.

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UnlovedAndBroked ( member #47870) posted at 5:52 PM on Tuesday, October 20th, 2015

I've got one for ya. It's an original.

I call it... Done.

You cheated on me

I still don't quite get why

Here, I've got your bags

Give a smile, wave goodbye

Dedicated to my real doozy of an XWW.

"There are a million things in this universe you can have and there are a million things you can’t have. It’s no fun facing that, but that’s the way things are." - James T. Kirk

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Topic is Sleeping.
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