Passing it on

[johnnysaturn]

I really don’t think
it’s healthy
this habit
you’ve contracted lately
of collecting breakables
to remind yourself
of your own fragility

I mentioned it
to your mother
who said perhaps
you should take up
hill-climbing instead

[Ron Wallace (Scotshawk)]

I like it; I think {Mountain-climbing} would work better, but that's sor of a colloquial thing I guess, and I see the point you're making of climbing hills as opposed to fragility. It's just for me hill-climbing doesn't make much of an impression. If I walk a quarter mile aound here, I'm climbing what passes for hills, and can't see it as a pass time. Regardless, the work is well stated and nicely done. Ron

[MichaelFirewalker]

Ha!!----gawd, I love that mother!----my kinda woman, that----girl's not so damned fragile, after all...just lazy...like me...

michael

[mfwilkie]

I like the poem, John, but I think the title could be better.

Maggie