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Pat

I am not sure about your line spacing since the Forum does bad things to them often.  As I put your poem in NotePad to eliminate the line spaces, I eliminated the extra player (the narrator).  Sorry.  You know that I try to break things so that you can see them fresh.  I tend to get married to the arrangement of words AND my story and can't revise it, only tinker with the "weeds."  Here's what I think is happening:

Oh, to Taste

A bald eagle sits high
in the tallest pine
tasting the tippy top

He does not live here
A white cloud whispers
Your turn

Pat,
I like what Todd did to this poem... except I do prefer the narrator stanza with "to simplify" deleted.  It took me some time to be comfortable with Tippy Top.  It seemed too childish for the bald eagle image following.  I much prefer Todd's suggested title.  Is there a really nice haiku in the middle of ths poem...?  I'm really partial to raptors and their image in a people poem.  Thanks for sharing.  Dewell

I was in shock, just now, to find the spacing.   I thought I had couplets.   : )   Hilarious.  What an adventure.  This means I must do something so that my poem in this program is not so scattered and spread.  It's always comes out weird looking, but never so strange as this.   Okay, I'm trying to get ready for a reunion. . . . it may be late tonight or Sunday before I can look at poems, but don't give up on me.  I knew the poem needed help.  Glad I sent it.  Pat

I had alternated single lines and couplets.   Oh well. . . . the world is trying to swallow me up.  I am in a battle here.  More later,  Pat

Pat,  I have trouble with brevity.  I can see how someone else has over run their work with words, but not my own.  What Todd has done has taken the part out where you tell us the situation, but not the picture of the situation.  All of what you told us is summed up in the words your turn.