I like the short two-line stanzas, each the ideal conveyance for a single image (and maybe a thought about the image). Strong poem, Joe. Thanks for posting it!
2019-08-21

That's life enjoy while you are living and always keep on smiling because smiling is the best pain killer! nice poem Josephus
Thank you for sharing!
2019-08-20

Marie Cadavieco
Ah! That is the secret! Keep tasting! I enjoyed reading this, brings home the fact that in reality, life does not slow down and stop, it just carries on, bringing new surprises, and we can travel along or get off, as we choose, until choice is taken away from us.

As Browning said (putting words into the mouth of Fra Lippo Lippi) "Oh, Oh! It makes me mad to see what men shall do, and we in our graves!"

When my mother had recovered from her third cancer (all primaries) at age 72, she said to me, I'm not dying yet, I'm too nosey, I don't want to miss anything! And went on another 8 years, when that last enemy took her by stealth.

Very enjoyable poem.
2019-08-20