In This World Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

In This World

Rating: 4.3


In this world and of this world,
we wonder whence we came and where to
morrow we will soon be whirled
through three score years and ten. Prepare! Two
moments matter, first cry hurled,
and last sigh [m]uttered, spluttered. There, too,
who remembers foetus curled
or corpse encoffined, both as bare to
any here. What flag unfurled
may wake the winds or ever dare to
show true way the world is twirled,
the how, the why, yet still speak fair... Who? ...

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
(2 November 1992 revised 28 November 2008)
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Greenwolfe 1962 22 July 2008

This is one of the few times I don't recommend a writing simply because there is really so little there. GW62

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Richard Jarboe 28 October 2006

In this world indeed. Some say they're in this world but not of it.You might be one of those guys. Good work, Richard

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