Gershon Wolf Poet Couplet

Whispers of Mortality

The earth remembers
  every September
    The dawn of Time
    fateful, sublime

  Six days of Creation
  singular innovations
    Last is Man
    land's also-ran

  Lips part, mortality
  whispers the earth

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Linda Alice Fowler May 13, 2023 at 11:00 AM Nothing lasts forever, not even Earth...sadly. Live it like you own it! :) Gershon Wolf May 13, 2023 at 8:39 PM Ha, ha! I'm just a boarder, passing through this corridor.

Daniel Turner May 12, 2023 at 2:25 PM Not sure where you got your timeline but the earth is laughing at out mortality. In her lifetime she has seen the beginning and will witness the end. We, mortals, are here but a season. Gershon Wolf May 13, 2023 at 8:38 PM Yet, to every season there is a reason...

Kim Rodrigues May 12, 2023 at 8:14 AM Our steps on the earth, short - make them meaningful! Gershon Wolf May 13, 2023 at 8:38 PM I try to -- make my steps meaningful -- and then I step in dog-doo.