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Laurie Easton Parker's avatar

Excellent. A timely theme. Also, I'm so impressed with your consistent rhyming over such a long poem.

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Sunny M's avatar

Thank you, Laurie! I love rhyming, and I find that for me it is largely a matter of simply getting my brain into the rhythm and flow of the lines.

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Weston Parker's avatar

"how strange that they think

they don’t dwell in our grasp"

I think this is a very fine poem and captures the "vanity of earthly greatness" so well. thank you

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