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It is a fact We must act! Indifference can no longer be tolerated As a nation’s foundations are obliterated With elected traitors who usher in tyranny While we the people wear rose-colored glasses Only seeing what we want to see State controlled media manipulate We remain idle as an administration ...

nekot wrote:Those last two words wrap it up so nicely - "weather is" - while at the same time, leaving it unwrapped too.

I like that comment. It says something that gave me a different -- and better -- insight into that peculiar last line.
Thank you nekot. --David

:hello: I think more people than you realize care about your inner temperature and well being! So sorry that you are feeling cold inside. I'd like to think you are adjusting your inner barometer and adding more warmth as needed. As for me, My thoughts and actions help to adjust my inner thermometer...

bags123 wrote:Must agree with you. Sometimes a parched soul is worse than any storm.

Thanks bags. Hope all is well. David

b"h 7/13/13 It's been hot for weeks -- hot and humid here In New York. But I have been cold for years -- cold And confused. The weather has little effect on Me. The temperature has nothing to do with Reality... It's a measure of something -- I'm sure it Is -- but there's no thermometer for anything...

Thanks for commenting. Hope all is well. --david

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A warm and wooly thing. Enjoyable. I always like tales of the moors; and sheep are cool too. It all adds up to a pastoral picture -- pretty and peaceful. --David

Beautiful. Sweet. Very. Good! --David

I thought I knew what this poem was about -- just what it seems to be about. And I thought the man was the Pete of The Who. But then I got lost in all the sexual and baseball innuendo... Look, I'm sixty-two years old, but I'm still kinda naive. Anyway I lost the thread... or dropped the ball, as it ...

but you HAVE returned the love...

b’’h
1/3/13



To give is good — a forgone fact —
Tho’ cast in vain deceit —
Since be it somewhat selfish act —
What giving — but — receipt?

Very simply put, David! So simple...but oh, so true...thanks for your candidness!!!... -Travis :thumbsup: My mother brought me up to say Thank You; I somehow missed saying it to you. So Thank You Travis! I am grateful for your kind comment and I am glad you dig the poem. Hope all is well. --David

this is really great. it is like a picture and a memory. it has a beautiful quality and takes me back through the years! bravo! --david

this is a terrific poem expressed clearly and creatively. the ending is superb. wonderful, pr. david