Slip, Sliding Away

Author: arkay ASL Info:    50+/m/Atl.Can Elite Ratio:    4.84 - 450 /320 /56 Words: 24

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Slip, Sliding Away

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Stepping out on ice, Falling flat on his fanny- Slipping and sliding. Maintaining a sense of pride No longer his great desire.

Submitted on 2004-12-02 10:38:15     Terms of Service / Copyright Rules
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This is a clever tanka! :D Kinda funny how momentum and inertia make abstract ideas like pride fly out the window, eh? thanks for a lighthearted read. :)

| Posted on 2004-12-02 00:00:00 | by latentlylyrical | [ Reply to This ]

Cool poem...self preservation comes before pride and his first concern becomes getting off alive...great metaphor for life. Enjoyable on many levels

| Posted on 2004-12-02 00:00:00 | by Daniel Barlow | [ Reply to This ]

Certain wisdom there. There are certainly things we need worse than pride, like just about everything. In fact pride is probably a much greater liability than most realize. Never heard of a tanka, is that a particular form? Dave

| Posted on 2004-12-02 00:00:00 | by Sandburg | [ Reply to This ]

From the title I thought this would be a little more Paul Simon. There's a lot of alliteration, and that's always good. This is how I felt once after running into a radiator pipe where I used to work.

| Posted on 2004-12-02 00:00:00 | by cuddledumplin | [ Reply to This ]

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