When Friends or Strangers with hands to clasp,
The Weathering of Life we usually ask.
'Hello Good Sir and how are you'?
For this it seems the Prevailing View.
'I hope your well', we generally say,
It's the topic acute throughout the day.
Oh never say 'I'm doing fine',
There's such a lie within the line.
'It could be worse', I've often heard,
The meaning of which is quite absurd.
The Answer you give and this mark well,
A most Candid line is what you tell.
'I'm Treading Water from Dusk till Dawn',
'By those ups and downs by which are Borne'.
'For some days good' and Some days bad',
An emotional Piñata of Happy and Sad'.
An Appropriate analogy I think you'll find,
As life's not smooth, it's the Rocky kind.
From day to day all Obstacles laid-
And we're Treading Water from Cradle to Grave.
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Author:
Kevin Hulme (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: We are are Spinning Plates also. I was in two minds about this . But since I spent time on it ...
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Of all water skills, treading was the most dreaded. Good stuff here🕊️🤩🙏
Yes . Those lessons at the School Baths.
Thank you for your message and Reading.
We could now say they were training for a lifelong career in keeping our noses above water. 🤩🕊️🙏
This poem has good flow and meter with very nice rhyme. I tells its tale well and indeed we seem to be most of the time
Which two minds were in fact involved in this creation? jointly they seem to have got themselves sorted nicely. Dunno which was responsible for the rhyme, but it works well. The overall management seems to have provided a simple truth.
BTW, a response by me to this question is simply "Getting There" and to date no one has wished to know the identity or address of 'there'...
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