General Poetry posted September 3, 2024

Chapters:

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Exceptional

another idiom

A chapter in the book A Poetic Idiot's Approach to Idioms

Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight

by Videl Sky

One My poor little dog went to live on a farm, Daddy drove her over with the Ford. A link is missing from our small family.   Two Mom got cancer; dad drank himself to death. I went to live with my grandparents in Delaware, Waving goodbye to my friends as we departed.   Three My first girlfriend and I went our separate ways, It tilted the stable axis of my whole world. I was over it by the next Wednesday.   Four My small business failed and went bankrupt And my wife had to help shoulder the burden, That day marked my fall to booze and bourbon.   Five Our first baby was supposed to be a girl, But she never uttered that first wailing gurgle. So, we cried instead of our little baby Grace.   Six It was just passed midnight, and I received a message. A photo, from a friend, of my wife kissing another man. The divorce papers were delivered come morning.   Seven ‘I failed to win custody of our two children,’ I whispered into a glass of Canadian Club - Drinking to the point of complete collapse.   But, because time doesn’t wait,   I brush off the dirt, and I set my back straight - I may fall seven times, but I stand up eight.