Yesterday's

By sIo

how can you be old 
when you are tomorrow

steady, certain, and withheld 


if only for
a few 
short

hours

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Copyright 2016 Joanna Smith
Published on Monday, December 12, 2016.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • Anna McCarra On Friday, January 13, 2017, Anna McCarra (382)By person wrote:

    This really made me think as well. The way you wrote this, it potentially could allude to many things. Even if just taken literally for a poem about the passage of time, it's a very interesting way to describe it. And it's a question...which is part of why it gets me thinking. Scholar

  • Phalanx On Wednesday, December 21, 2016, Phalanx (677)By person wrote:

    I suppose no matter how old we get, we all have our good moments.

  • A former member wrote: Something beyond wisdom in the first two lines. This poem centers me.


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