Oneof my Favorite Poems

[JimT]

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[jeepnik]

It should be printed on the exterior of every emergency blanket.

I have noticed one thing. Children and old people often do better surviving than mid life folks. Why? Kids don't know they can die, they just fall back on instinct. And old folks are too darned stubborn to die, plus they have a long history of figuring things out.

[Bill in Oregon]

Useful message. Sometimes feels like we are reading Kipling when we read Service -- and vice versa.

[samsi]

Useful message. Sometimes feels like we are reading Kipling when we read Service -- and vice versa.

Curiously the only poets represented on my bookshelf are Kipling and Service but the effect noted by Bill never occurred to me until now.

[Bill in Oregon]

Kipling could be so very much darker.

https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/p ... ngbrit.htm