<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425564" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mask</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hope - twisted image seen through mental mask, <br>Accepted self-delusion counterfeit, <br>Perhaps to help man’s conscience counter fate, <br>Perhaps to tint the rainboy. Many ask<br>In disarray the question 'What joys last? '<br>Now, the Present - an elastic date, -<br>Extends until it snaps, while 'soon' is late.<br>So little time remains till we are 'Past'.<br>Some think themselves a mirage, say their task<br>Allotted compensating former state <br>Misguided - yet in times when troubles spate<br>A help for blind from foetus to the cask.<br>So though some cling to crutch, to token creeds, <br>Karmic beliefs as such seem broken reeds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">21 November 1991 revised 20 December 2006 <br>robi03_0488_robi03_0000 ASX_DJZ </div><div style="margin:10px 0">for previous version entitled Happiness a Mask see below</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Happiness, - A Mask</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hope is a mirrored image of man's mask, <br>Arranged in manner often counterfeit, -<br>Perhaps to help his conscience counter fate, <br>Perhaps to tint the rainboy. Man may ask<br>In disarray the question 'What joys last? '<br>Now, - the Present - an elastic date, <br>Extends until it snaps, while 'soon' is late.<br>So little time remains till we are 'Past'.<br>Some think themselves a mirage, say a task<br>Allotted is to compensate their state -<br>Mistaken! - yet in times when troubles spate<br>A help for blind from foetus to the cask.<br>So though some need a token creed as crutch<br>Karmic beliefs seem broken reeds as such...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Acrostic sonnet Happiness a Mask <br>21 November 1991</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>© Jonathan Robin</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425564" data-title="Mask de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Hope - twisted image seen through mental mask, Accepted self-delusion counterfeit, Perhaps to help man’s conscience counter fate, Perhaps to tint the rainboy. Many ask In disarray the question 'What joys last? ' Now, the Present - an elastic ..."></div> </div> </div>

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