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Sticks and Stones

by The Walrus 

Posted: 21 December 2003
Word Count: 36


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The startling ease
With which
Those from afar
Choose to sling
Missiles of morality.
It is a common fact, afterall
That glass houses
Are fragile.

Wiser perhaps
With or without the facts,
To hold one’s counsel.






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Fearless at 19:43 on 21 December 2003  Report this post
Hmmmm, wonder what brought this on. No matter.
But perhaps people shouldn't live in glass houses.

fearless

roovacrag at 20:28 on 21 December 2003  Report this post
Who was it from afar?
A feeling, A dream,
A passion.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX AL

Bobo at 22:45 on 21 December 2003  Report this post
Walrus - a great voice of outrage! Others have a tendency to judge and preach - it's wrong, but can we each put our hand on our hearts and swear it's something in which we've never partaken? We each know our own truth ( well, more or less! ) and that is all we can light our path by. Fuck the fickle onlookers! Loved the power of this piece - achieved in so few words.

BoBo x

The Walrus at 09:08 on 22 December 2003  Report this post
Thanks for your comments guys. Nothing ambiguous in this one! We can all be self-righteous hypocrites!

The Walrus

dr_mandrill at 16:13 on 22 December 2003  Report this post
Damn right people can be hypocrites. Sometimes I wish people would just shut up. Then I wish I would just shut up.

Um... anyway, good poem. I really like the word 'counsel', it makes me think of Gandalf.


dm

The Walrus at 17:26 on 22 December 2003  Report this post
Dear dm

LOL at your comment... thanks.

The Walrus


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