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Thank you, my friend. Very: Thank you, my friend. Very kind.   I was looking at old time pieces in a small antique store earlier in the day, and later on in the day sparked a mingling of thoughts. I'm quite sure that George's poem "The Hands On The Clock Tick Backwards" got me writing, as well.

That is a very interesting: That is a very interesting quote.  And I think that drive to enlarge one's knowledge is what poets diverse in the historical eras in which they lived, and their chosen subjects, advised that poetry was most valid when preparation for it has been accomplished.  I think Callimachus, John Milton (especially him), Alexander Pope and our late contemporary, J. V. Cunningham would agree tbe poet must be prepared to carry out the vocation, and that is tbe enlargement of knowledge of which Maimonides spoke.

Cheers : Thank you for your comment. It Mamés me recall one of my favourite quotes by Maimonides and resonates deeply with me and my own philosophy of life long learning “May there never develop in me the notion that my education is complete but give me the strength and leisure and zeal continually to  enlarge my knowledge."

Thank you for this: It's never justified to kill 2 people (or 5, or 10, or a 100) - let alone children - to save 1. But as long as we continue of this way, we will keep impregnating our world with war into the future.

And you do succeed in finding: And you do succeed in finding that Poetry in those moments.  One of the great learning experiences of my life was figuring out, while still in middle school, that dismal or stormy days were also as poetic as sunny, summery days---just in a different key, so to speak, and in a different form.  And, in that same way, your poems about the mundane moments demonstrate exactly that.

a lovely read. thank you: a lovely read. thank you

Been there and experienced: Been there and experienced that, and you describe it very, very well.  I also want to applaud your metaphors and similes:  they are so strikingly original, yet so easily comprehend, that I was struck by how precisely accurate they were in describing how the experience feels.  I actually paused over several of the lines because they are so well constructed and so powerful.  I think this poem is, and will continue to be, one of the main centerpieces of your entire collection.