Saturday, September 12, 2020

A Poem Inspired By Sarah Feldman Comments

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I always assumed I would behave
with just the right measure of pride
and humility. This I will achieve
with Socrates's aplomb and whatever
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Daniel Brick
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Soran M. H 28 September 2020

broken lives in the crumbling cities of a rotten society. Will this creative fire burning within reconcile me to loss and ruin. Such hopes were strong in my youth when everyone was an ally, even a friend, definitely a fellow journeyer. What concerns me now is the darkening web

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Soran M. H 28 September 2020

a crowd? How long will we strangers to each other?

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Glen Kappy 14 September 2020

" the World itself is vexed: we live broken lives in the crumbling cities of a rotten society." I relate to this, Daniel, but we share a strategy—pull Nature to the foreground. Another, for me, is realizing our current time is an eye-blink in historical and, more so, geological time. -Glen

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Deluke Muwanigwa 12 September 2020

Great poem. Yeah we should all be friends.

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Ace Of Black Hearts 12 September 2020

Strangers can become good friends. Time is everything in the end. Do not worry about the entire crowd, because not all will see you or even acknowledge you exist. It's the few not the many, that become your center, your support when things get rough, when things go completely wrong. Thanks for the inspiring poem.

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