<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460966" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In reply to your irate comment...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">...well, yes, I agree the 'Comment' box is for comments - but hold on -<br>I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry...<br>yes, growing up in the Bible Belt<br>must be purgatory with only heaven and hell<br>I mean who reads Dante? <br>just don't unload it all on me, OK? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I guess I should try to explain myself<br>(this could be a long one, <br>like the others I pass over on this site, <br>who's got time for Byron or Browning or Milton?) : </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trying to make sense of this world<br>in the allotted time, ho ho, <br>I've found it helpful in the mind<br>- though I'm not 'religious', <br>but not aggressively irreligious I hope; <br>but still rather pressingly interested<br>in life and death, that sort of thing -<br>the concept of some possible unity<br>through love, Providence, order, law<br>(the Sun doesn't take a day off) <br>call it what you will<br>(or not - the Indians have spent<br>thousands of years on this sort of language) <br>and the possibility of finding<br>things related in some way through<br>something more than Chaos Theory<br>(as in a teenager's room) <br>or Evolution from two atoms<br>(by Whose law, huh?) -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(are you still with me?) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so that as in the most beautiful<br>metaphors and analogies <br>that poets delight in, <br>you and I and butterflies<br>and blue jays<br>and the smell of Spring<br>and yes, love -<br>are in some way related...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think I'll stop there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=460966" data-title="In reply to your irate comment... de Michael Shepherd" data-description="...well, yes, I agree the 'Comment' box is for comments - but hold on - I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry... yes, growing up in the Bible Belt must be purgatory with only heaven and hell I mean who reads Dante? just don't unload it all on me, OK? I ..."></div> </div> </div>

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