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All of Me


So many things
I'd never do
are done and that is all
these many things
I hate I've done
are done—I can't recall;

But if I could
go back in time
undo what I have wrought,
would it still
lead me then
back here just where it ought?

Perhaps I did
just what I did
to make me who you see,
and without
the experience
I'd only be half me.

I'm not so bad
and I've become
a giver of love and light,
I made it through
a messy youth
I'm fighting the good fight.

So many things
I'm glad I did
but thought I'd never do,
and are you glad
that you have done
the things that make you you?

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© 2013 NavWorks Press and DE Navarro. All rights reserved.

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Published in Dare to Soar, 2013. Available at any bookstore worldwide.

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DE Navarro teaches poetry and runs a poetry WordShop™ at We Write Poetry


 

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DE Navarro

David Eric (D.E.) Navarro, author, poet, essayist and editor, is a poet-philosopher of the pure land school of haiku. He is also a clinical research medical writer and copy editor as well as a biblical research scholar and teacher. He moved to Tucson, Arizona in 2018 to finally settle down after 40 years of roaming around the globe. He holds a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies (emphasis on arts and humanities) with Purdue University, and has degrees in Communications and Theology. His love of poetry and the writing arts started at age 8. A collection of his poetry was first published in the 1980 Winter Issue of the Purdue Exponent Literary Edition and many of his poems, essays, and articles have been published in various magazines, venues, and journals ever since, including the NY Literary Magazine, Miracle Magazine, Poetry Festival, and Better Than Starbucks; and in anthologies such as Between Life and Language, Ingram Publishing, 2009, The Black Rose of Winter, Lost Tower Publications, 2014, the Bukowski Erasure Anthology, Silver Birch Press, 2015, and Com-pen-di-um, CA Gallagher, 2016. He is author of 6 volumes of poetry, his latest being A Tree Frog's Eyes: Haiku, Blurb San Francisco, 2020. He is Founder of NavWorks Press and the Pure Land School of Haiku, and originator of the online We Write Poetry forums where he teaches poetry and haiku and enjoys mentoring new poets and writers. He also did a series of in-person poetry workshops for the public library system in Tuscaloosa, Alabama from 2007-2010. He is very involved in a number of online poetry and haiku groups and communities on various social media. For more information about his work and to see all the things he is involved in, please see his website at https://www.de-navarro.com. For a list of his books, see his Amazon Author Page at https://www.amazon.com/David-E-Navarro/e/B00H55NBIQ/.

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