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Rippling Away from the Past Toward a Better Tomorrow

A tanaga poem

Poet’s photo of ducks bonding and creating ripples on Arlington Pond, Salem, NH, on which I lived from Dec. 2020 to May 2021

Epigram

“It may be that if I lead the life I’ve planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another, and that one a third; it’s just possible that a few people will see that my way of life offers happiness and peace, and that they in their turn will teach what they have learned to others.” — the character, Larry, in Somerset Maugham’s masterpiece, The Razor’s Edge

Another Nostalgia Pond

a petal of gratitude
ripples across the world’s pond
forward looking attitude
don’t pine for past, heal and bond

I riffed that poem yesterday as my comment on

Carolyn Hastings

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The Nostalgia Pond

My poem derives from Carolyn’s. Click in to see hers and for the description of a tanaga poem — a form of which I had no previous…