Where Is Your Silver Lining
When You Have No Gold Left Within
Where is your silver lining when you have no gold left within?
I gather that you could never discover one in Berlin.
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I remember seeing a silver lining around the bend.
It was a mind-filled mirage that had to be prudently penned.
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Where is the so-called silver lining in any bloody war?
All those who died or those who were maimed only portray the gore.
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Is there a silver lining to a longer life all alone?
Not at all and even for a plant which can also bemoan.
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When Anthi smiles or laughs I can perceive a silver lining.
My life brightens up and even the Moon’s sliver is shining.
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If every cloud has a silver lining before the rainbow,
let us become clouds at least once in our lives and rain aglow.
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- All these couplets are mantinades. A mantinada typically consists of a Cretan 15-syllable rhyming couplet.
Chet Baker - Look for the Silver Lining
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Patrick M. Ohana
A medical writer who reads and writes fiction and some nonfiction, although the latter may appear at times like the former. Most of my pieces (over 2,200) are or will be available on Shakespeare's Shoes.
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