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A Time For This -- But Never a Time For That

A Time to Know A Time to Guess But Never a Time To Falsely Profess A Time to be Happy A Time to be Sad But Never a Time To be Raving Mad A Time for This And Even for THIS ~But Never a Time for That A Time to Disclose A Time to Suppress But Never a Time To Cruelly Oppress A Time to Attack A Time to Defend But Never a Time To Try to Offend A Time for This And Even for THIS ~But Never a Time for That A Time to Accept A Time to Refuse But Never a Time To Resort to Abuse A Time to Think A Time To Do ~And Always a Time For "I Love You"

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Susan Gentry

Date: 4/21/2018 2:50:00 PM

My time to say I enjoyed this rhyme. Some sage advice. I thought the 2nd to last verse was kinda awkward. Could have been me. Stopped my flow of read. I get it and could not off hand think of a better way to say it right off or would.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/21/2018 10:09:00 PM

Susan, your advice is hereby appreciated, registered, and acted upon. Here's what I've done: First, I eliminated the asterisks separating the last two verses. More importantly, I also changed the last line of the penultimate verse to read, "To Resort to Abuse." It makes the rhyme in the stanza clumsy---the verb, Refuse, with the noun, Abuse---but I think the poem still flows well enough, especially visually. Thank you so much!! :) gw