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ysabetwordsmith

Poem: "Guarding the Change"

Feb 08, 2013 16:31

This poem came out of the February 5, 2013 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from kelkyag, siege, and wyld_dandelyon. It has been sponsored by Anthony & Shirley Barrette. This poem belongs to the series The Steamsmith.

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Comments 6

siliconshaman February 9 2013, 14:00:03 UTC

People often forget that the phrase "With great power comes great responsibility" cuts both ways...

Yes... ysabetwordsmith February 9 2013, 17:32:21 UTC

That's a good point. People often don't realize how much power they hold based on the responsibility they have.

kelkyag February 11 2013, 03:23:36 UTC

The last verse is ... perhaps an understatement.

Yes... ysabetwordsmith February 11 2013, 03:59:44 UTC

*cackle* I am mean to my characters. I rarely give unmixed blessings (or damnations). But they angst so beautifully!

cadenzamuse February 13 2013, 15:38:58 UTC

Love this one. The responsibilities of new maturity and the laying them off of old maturity. (Particularly apt to me today, after the Pope's resignation, which I quite honestly admire as someone deciding that stepping aside to allow someone who can better do the Papal duties is better than martyring oneself for an ideal of the Papacy that often leaves a long expanse of administrative standstill as the old Pope dies in the chair.)

Thank you! ysabetwordsmith February 14 2013, 06:04:32 UTC

>>Love this one.<<

Yay!

>> The responsibilities of new maturity and the laying them off of old maturity. <<

This is an important part of life, and one that rarely gets much attention. When you have sensible people in charge, though, they do things like this. There will be more of it in the series over time, because it takes place at a pivotal period in history, when Queen Victoria is just taking up the reins of power. So a bunch of other youngish people are going along for that ride.

>> (Particularly apt to me today, after the Pope's resignation, which I quite honestly admire as someone deciding that stepping aside to allow someone who can better do the Papal duties is better than martyring oneself for an ideal of the Papacy that often leaves a long expanse of administrative standstill as the old Pope dies in the chair.) <<

Agreed.