Neither in fame, nor fortune, nor men put your trust
For as weather and time turn metal to rust
The things of this earth
Begin to die straight from birth
Return ashes to ashes and dust to dust
In response to Mind and Life Matters weekly limerick challenge.
Meg Sorick, Author/Artist 
Love this, Meg. Somber, but true…everything ages, everything ends.
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Thanks, Kay. Sorry so gloomy! 😦
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Don’t be sorry! Life is a myriad of emotion, not all happy!
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For real…
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Wow, Meg. This is classic. I love it.
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Thanks, Diana! Much appreciated!
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This is magnificent, Meg. 👏🏻👏🏻
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Thank you, Rita!
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My pleasure
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And she’s back! The limerick queen!! Fabulous
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Hahaha! Yeah with doom and gloom! My new specialty! 😀
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🙂 maybe just a little
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I’ll have to do something funny for tomorrow. 😉
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I like it. I’m trying to do something a little different occasionally too!
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Keeps it interesting!
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This is one heck of a good limerick 🙂
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Thank you!
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That’s a great big OUCH Meg, but a great Limerick nonetheless.
xxx Huge Hugs xxx
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I know and I apologize! Thank you though, for the huge hugs – they are most welcome!
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Great limerick… moody as anything though!
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Thanks. Yes, my scribbling has been rather gloomy these days. I’ll have to lighten it up a little!
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A little… maybe a lot! 😉
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Oh boy! 😀
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:-p
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powerful limerick great writing 😀 ! Hope you can stop by and read my latest blog
http://goo.gl/9ctxa2 with warmth and wishes 🐇🐇@UDtherabbithole xx
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Thank you. I will check it out. 🙂
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But you’ve got to trust someone… right? Fame and fortune… sure… probably shouldn’t trust those. (Although I would trust my fortune… if I had one.) But I think trust in others… well… you may find trusting was a mistake with some (and God knows I’ve made some poor decisions…), but never trusting anyone at all is worse. I think anyway. Gotta take a few chances. Hell, at least a solid 80-90% of the time, I’m lonely as f-ck… but if I trusted no one, I think I’d be lonely 100% of the time. And this is coming from me. Queen of Darkness. 😀
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I thought about making that line ‘nor trust Kings’ instead of ‘men,’ but it felt clumsy. This poem is far more cynical than I feel in reality. I can’t seem to lift the gloom from my writing!
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😦 I’m pretty damn cynical… so for me to see the gloom… you’re doing a good job with that theme!
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I should start tagging everything ‘gloom’ and see what happens!
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Oh. I think you need to try another mood. 😛 Of course, I’m kind of a hypocrite… as I have my extreme-gloom moments.
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I have to make up something for booze Tuesday since the drink du jour wasn’t something I could get my hands on. I was going to write something funny …
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Good idea! Just write about coffee… or Coke… Or the horrible stuff they make you drink before certain medical procedures… LOL
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I thought about a non booze post. I could write about that super expensive coffee that comes from civet poop.
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Ewww
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I know! Friends of mine went to Thailand on vacation and had it there. It’s the priciest coffee in the world. Gross!
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I love this; I’m going to check this challenge out!
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Oh its a lot of fun! I’m glad you’re joining us!
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Bravo Meg!
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Thanks, Daisy! 🙂
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Love this Meg. Especially loved the line of turning to rust. Good one.
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Thank you!
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Bravo. That is all.
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Thanks, Nicola!
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Sombre maybe. Great yes! Love it.
Dear Doctor Meg is not so bad, she’s really not a drinker.
She likes to read, and write, and dream, she’s much more of a thinker.
So, if my readers were mislead, I say, on bended knee
Apologies, a thousand fold to Doctor Meg from me!
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Ah Peter! That’s brilliant! No apology necessary- it’s all in good fun!
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Dark, but true.
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Gloomy but great 🙂
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Thank you, Dra!
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Trust no one but yourself, huh!? Good one, Meg!
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Thanks, Rashmi! I’m not really that cynical! 😜
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I know! 😀
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Very profound.
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Thank you!
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☺ 🌷
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