Thursday, October 27, 2016

Compromise their stand

                                                                                    Attribution: Diego Delso, 
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Image: Sacrificing Comforts of
Long Distance Train Travel (here)

Neither here nor there
Face unflagging sacrifice
Compromise their stand
Neutrality breeds contempt
Fence sitters risk positions

A Tanka for Susan's at PU's
Mid-week Motif  -  neutrality

9 comments:

  1. Uncertain your reference--but fencesitters could get knocked over when the train comes through, for sure.

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  2. Neutrality breeds contempt.. most certainly Hank, one can not afford to not have an opinion and remain mute. Powerful write.


    Lots of love,
    Sanaa

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  3. Sometimes you have to pick a side.

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  4. Powerful Often you have to stand up and take position and not sit on the side watching

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  5. I'm afraid I'm one of those fence sitters sometimes! :)

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  6. So true.I took the object of the last two lines to be the fence sitter

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  7. I agree with you. Neutrality does bring contempt. No one is totally unbiased, so pretending to be is contemptible.

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  8. Some thought provoking words Hank.
    Yvonne.

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  9. As Cosmo said in his poem, silence is tacit approval, so a silent fence sitter is really saying yes - only contemptibly so!

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