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Intractable

In as much as it’s defensible, Like a boot stamp on the innocent, The uncompromising all, Pernicious awareness of mortality. ©Feb 19th 2018

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 1/11/2019 3:55:00 AM

"the uncompromising all" of it is the part that keeps it in the shadows, until it leaps out and bites us personally.

Carolyn Devonshire

Date: 11/26/2018 2:42:00 PM

Once we become aware of our own mortality, life is never the same. What a great way to sum up these complex feelings in four short lines!

Becca Teagan

Date: 11/19/2018 10:24:00 PM

you have an interesting style, for sure, and I like it.

David Byrne
Date: 11/19/2018 11:25:00 PM

Thank you Becca.

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 11/18/2018 1:02:00 AM

Another gem for my bag of jewels David! How are you? Blessings, Connie

David Byrne
Date: 11/18/2018 6:37:00 PM

Hi Connie, been busy for the past couple of years. Now living in Japan and I have a beautiful new two-year-old daughter that we called Minerva or Minnie for short. She has made my life blissful. However, she has also taken up all my poetry time.......lol!How are you?

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 11/7/2018 3:09:00 PM

Deep and wise!!