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With Us: pantoum
The world is too much with us to pretend
that it is just a temporary slot,
a way to pass some time from start to end
or make it believe it’s separate. It’s not
that it is just a temporary slot,
a proving ground for weighing thought and deed.
It is the whole of everything we’ve got.
There is no other lifetime guaranteed. Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, eternity, existence, impermanence, Mayalan verse forms, pantoum, poetic forms
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