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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.
I remember seeing a silver lining around the bend.
It was a mind-filled mirage that had to be prudently penned.
Where is the so-called silver lining in any bloody war?
All those who died or those who were maimed only portray the gore.
Is there a silver lining to a longer life all alone?
Not at all and even for a plant which can also bemoan.
When Anthi smiles or laughs I can perceive a silver lining.
My life brightens up and even the Moon’s sliver is shining.
If every cloud has a silver lining before the rainbow,
let us become clouds at least once in our lives and rain aglow.
All these couplets are mantinades. A mantinada typically consists of a Cretan 15-syllable rhyming couplet.
