Epitaph

Willow

Apr 27

Love this very much 🤍Strength definitely does not need a display to be known....

Thank you Willow

Funny I was thinking something related to your words, but from my perspective...hard to read everything but I'm taking more time to read yours🤍

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Ever Blue | Serial Romance

Apr 27

Poignant. It feels like Solomon. "I have seen how much effort and skillful work spring from rivalry between people; This too is futility, a chasing after the wind..." Still--please stay.🥹

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cassandrean•phoenix 🍉

Apr 27

I wish that next time I gotta vanish, even virtually, I'll find and read this out loud 🖤

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Love this! Showiness does not equate to strength.

Thank you Mike

Love that ending 🔥🔥

Thank you small wounds

Absolutely love the strength and power in some restraint. Awesome job. Thank you 🙏🏻

Thank you Eleora

This reminds me of that scene in Braveheart where the Scottish king tries to validate hate as a noble attribute of a king, and his son says as he closes the door “my hate will die with you.”

Awesome piece as always Pan’soosh. Your depth knows no bounds

Thank you Miles

This was such a well written piece! I loved 🥰 it’

Thank you Ali

I would add too, that it is not important that our names are known, but that work IS. The work should, if it is meaningful, stand long after we are gone.

Think, EBB. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Too true, but what remains, if we are lucky, is a bit of verse -that eternal echo in the sounding back to even those unknown. 🥰🪶💜

The imperative is to WRITE! WRITE! Let your words ring on and on as song!

Thank you Aria

Wow. That is stunning, thanks so much for sharing. Every word of this wonderful poem lands 🙏

Thank you Tony

Absolute pleasure 👌

I'm in love with this poem

Thank you!

Wow, stunningly powerful ~ and poetic!

Thank you Nina

Amazing poem, so poignant! However, I hope that you are well. You have a touching way with words and your insights are on point. Thank you for sharing your talent. Godspeed.

Thank you Mac

Pancakesushi,

I feel your epitaph but I have had to prove my value, or trumpet my worth. It has been something I have had to grow into understand and accept in light of so many of my 80 years not having felt of value. Nevertheless, I have arrived there and continue to do so but am closer to ready to depart. Thanks for being these emotions to light for me. Fondly, Michael

Thank you Michael. I hope you will endure for many more years

PS, As I said I am not yet ready but at 80 the reality is that there is more to look back on than there is to anticipate! Fondly, Michael

Michael, we live in a juggernaut which is sure to roll over us when we do not self-promote. What looks like the crassest of self praise to the rest of the civilized world is only straight survival here.

True enough, but I find it abhorrent. I trust in people finding my work

True enough.👌