JokerGem
  Junior Editor

This could be a good epitaph.

hey, just so you know, the Lewis Carroll question finishing the line, “You are old, Father William...” is malfunctioning. Even when you select the correct answer it says you’re wrong.

indeed, it is true. Which can lead to feeling exceptionally drained...the need arises to be more proactive about protecting your space and often the urge grows stronger to want to withdraw to one’s own space and company. But we have alot to offer and tend to only realize too late we’re being taken advantage of.
The perpetual opposites impelled to come together, make the world turn, l suppose.
Yes, thanks for writing it--I find the pantoum form to be so fascinating. more »

Introverts do see the motives because we are tuned in to our intuition. Extroverts most likely think WE’RE the assholes, but they can’t rationalize the reason.

Very intelligent poem and l like that challenge thrown out to the ‘talkers,’ to actually say something profound!
...Feeling this more »

Kennan– nifty poet for sure.
There's a clever yet bitingly critical slant to this, and it is undeniably keen and sharp.

I'm glad I comb through the contests that I didn't participate in because it allowed me to find this diamond! Great poem speaking to the reaching and living of our higher selves. Maybe if there weren't so many entries poems like this would get more recognition--I, for one, loved it. more »

Awesome...when I get a chance I'll check some of them out!

Great story, Kurt!
I really enjoyed it.

Aphoristic and astute ~
...very pleasing to read someone who is on this level.

Another slick offering from you. The allusion of the guest house as, roughly, the conscience is a solid anchor for the poem. I also love the reference to Wendell Berry’s “The Peace of Wild Things” and this could aptly serve as a companion piece to it. --Thank you for sharing this to the site! more »

Thank you, kindly Sue.
Yeah, seems as though most of these are going unsung.

Splendid writing
I’d think this has ‘every man’ appeal.

I thought this was excellent –
–so much said in just a few words (which is poetry at its finest).

Excellently done-
It transported me.

so simple, yet so profound!
I have found this poem to be exemplary and most deserving of a prize.