I got used to being a verb
usually transitive of course
holding lovers, moving mountains
rushing about banging into things
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There is nothing like grammar-transitive and intransitive verbs, subject, object, simile, metaphor- to give illumination about life's possibilities and the unlimited powers of the individual person. The last three lines bring sad closure and the complete passive mood. Masterful.
WOW...I am very impressed by your poem Barry. What a unique way of looking at oneself through similes and metaphors.10+++ and into my favorites :)
all the writing i've done, never thought to personalize, personify the tenses as periods of time. So effective, so well done. Thanks..
Thanks very much Marianne. Sometimes I feel like I am writing the same poem over and over in a slightly different way. But once in a while I stumble on something unique.
For me, a philologue-grammarian, it is an apocalypse, I wonder at the perception.How beautifully it succeeded to pepict the transitions a human being is going through.
Thanks again Dimitrios. As you are catching up, I cannot respond to every comment. But as always I appreciate.