{"id":3731,"date":"2019-05-09T16:27:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T16:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2019-05-09T16:27:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T16:27:58","slug":"no-clues-by-charlie-brice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/no-clues-by-charlie-brice\/","title":{"rendered":"No Clues by Charlie Brice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

No Clues<\/span><\/p>\n

by Charlie Brice\n<\/p>\n

At 68 you dream
\nthat you are flunking math
\nwill never graduate from college
\nawake a total failure
\nit takes twenty minutes to remember
\nthat you have a Ph.D.
\na successful career<\/p>\n

You crack
\nyou break
\nparts chip off
\nyou strive to be better
\nrarely succeed<\/p>\n

Someone doesn\u2019t like your poems
\nsomeone does
\nmost are indifferent
\nthe chip is on your shoulder<\/p>\n

Time is both savior and executioner<\/p>\n

You live long enough
\nto have something to say
\nbut not long enough
\nto say it fully<\/p>\n

You want to grow into yourself
\nbut aren\u2019t sure what that means
\nyou resist common conformity
\nbut want to be loved and admired<\/p>\n

Life is a crossword puzzle
\nwith no clues
\nyou fill in the blanks
\nand hope that
\nwhat goes down and across
\nintersects<\/p>\n

spells p e a c e
\n           e
\n           a
\n           c
\n           e<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

Charlie Brice is a retired psychoanalyst and is the author ofFlashcuts Out of Chaos<\/i>\u00a0(2016),\u00a0Mnemosyne\u2019s Hand<\/i>\u00a0(2018), and\u00a0An Accident of Blood<\/i>\u00a0(forthcoming), all from WordTech Editions.\u00a0<\/span>His poetry has been nominated for the Best of Net anthology and twice for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in\u00a0The Atlanta Review, The Main Street Rag, Chiron Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, The Paterson Literary Review<\/i>,\u00a0<\/i>and elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlie Brice is a retired psychoanalyst and is the author ofFlashcuts Out of Chaos (2016), Mnemosyne\u2019s Hand (2018), and An Accident of Blood (forthcoming), all from WordTech Editions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems-about-truth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t