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Lyle Berry (Age: 61)
Florida, United States

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Engineer by day, poet, singer, songwriter, guitarist at night and weekends. I've wandered all my life strumming my guitars and singing my songs. Hence the nickname "Minstrelman".

I play bass guitar with a classic rock trio in Hobe Sound, FL.
I also play harmonica and synthesizer.
My hobbies (besides music) include fishing, kayaking and knife collecting.
Here's a poem I wrote which too often sums up my life.Thanks for reading!!
God bless!!!!

Ode to Lost Opportunities

Oh, you know who you are!
Things I should have done,
Girls I should have kissed,
Flowers I should have sniffed.

Candies I should have popped into my mouth,
Kittens I should have cuddled,
Dog’s ears I should have scratched,
“Would you like to dance?”’s I shouldn’t have whispered
so inaudibly…

Springs and Falls I should have inhaled
(then rubbed and absorbed into my flesh like myrrh),
Sand and sea-foam I should have enjoyed with my toes,
Warm woods I should have explored…

Inviting streams I should have dove headlong into - no fear of rocks.
You know all too well, as do I!
Patience I should have demonstrated -
Children I should have been a real parent to.

Hands I should have stretched out,
Compassion I should have shown,
Offerings I should have made.
Hungry folks I should have fed,
Dues I should have paid,
Help I should have offered,
Wrongs I should have righted.

“Sorry”s and “Please, forgive me”s, I should have pleaded,
“I love you”s I should not have said,
“I love you”s I did not say, but should have - too late!
“Good-bye”s and “fare-thee-well” s forgotten.

Birthdays, holidays and special occasions overlooked in selfishness,
Deaths ignored and funerals thus avoided,
Preoccupied with worry,
Overwhelmed and absorbed with self.

Justifying and rationalizing always:
“I did the right thing at the time – Ha!”
And of course it is all-irrevocable;
Can’t go back, you can never go back.

Cannot do, cannot undo, cannot redress, cannot unbreak!
“Sorry!”doesn’t cut it now, if it ever did.
“If you can’t change it, why worry about it?”
“Oh, yeah, sure, easy for you to say!”

But it’s a knife in my guts…the guilt, the regret, and the remorse
The embarrassment, the pain, the agony, the epiphany
of a lifetime
of lost opportunities.

Copyright 2007
Lyle R. Berry
aka Minstrelman

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Books
Pg Ages Date Hits Praise Title
233 18-127 05-22-05 695 Collective Works of Minstrelman
Stories
Ages Date Hits Praise Title
18-127 08-27-03 637 Rhapsody in the Rain
18-127 08-08-03 608 Jingle Bells and the Timberwolf
18-127 09-25-01 913 Forgotten: How to “Be”
18-127 08-30-01 853 Fer-de-Lance (Revised)
Poetry
Ages Date Hits Praise Title
18-127 10-11-07 125 One Inch At a Time
18-127 08-03-07 142 The Doves and I
Poetry
Ages Date Hits Praise Title
18-127 07-03-07 152 Gimme Three Steps
18-127 06-26-07 123 Mimic
18-127 05-27-07 231 Serenity
18-127 02-03-07 322 Gather Round Me
18-127 08-23-06 274 The Sweet, Sweet Past
10-127 08-16-06 301 The Herons (3 Sedoka)
13-127 10-22-04 658 Siblings ~ Inspired by Halloween ~
13-127 08-03-04 1466 Almost Home ~ A Love Ballad
18-127 12-08-03 554 Christmas Lament - a Haiku
18-127 06-16-03 613 My Skeletons - Revisited
18-127 11-17-01 1292 Afghan Rap
16-127 09-20-01 677 Skeletons
18-127 09-13-01 672 Dark Serious Duck


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