In our frantic rush
to achieve our lofty goals,
what is lost along the way?
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A narrow focus
plus speed may hit the taget
yet still miss the mark.
Month: April 2015
Straight and Narrow Ways
On this twisting path
how will we ever get straight
and how will we know it’s true?
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But is the straight way
the true path of truth or is
it just the highway to hell?
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Certainties
When even the good
earth proves unreliable,
can stability exist?
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Nothing stable stays,
except, perhaps, our wish for
such when times seem sweet.
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Lazy Days of Rays
On these sunlit days
when even the grouchiest
smile, what is ours to do?
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We could join them, like
Iguanas, and bask on some
sun warmed stones, leisurely.
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Meaning and Method
Since burdens mask truth,
must we remove mountain tops
to reveal our true meaning?
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Instead of masking
truth, burdens can force us to
climb mountains and find truth there.
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Overburden
Would you say meaning
is something found, created,
or simply not there?
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As artifacts lie
buried beneath ancient dross,
meanings are oft obscured.
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Being Found
Is there limit to
what may be found when seeking
with an open heart?
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When we’re present with
an open heart, there is no
limit to being found.
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A Broader World
When surrounded by
darkness what will help us find
our way back to light?
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Embrace the darkness!
Travel by feeling and smell
until the daylight returns
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Realms of Being
Who said poetry
Requires great effort and
Some visionary forethought?
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Sometimes we poets
enter a wordless realm where
effort and forethought don’t dwell.
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Minimalist Mondo
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About Those Plans
When everything else has
failed, what will be, alas,
our ultimate plan zed?
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That is precisely
when we set aside our plans
and listen for the Divine’s.
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Riding the Tiger
Please tell me a way
to make music when the heart
can not keep its wild beat?
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When the beat, my dear,
fluctuates from bar to bar?
Well now, they call that Ragtime!
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Entwined
We have tried standing
firm like Holly. Is it, now,
Ivy’s time to entwine us?
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Ivy and Holly,
evergreen reminders there’s
always time for both.
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Holly Disapproves
If you could tell me
why the ivy twines, I might
share some secrets too.
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Ancient Druids say
ivy twines like maidens’ hair
green, alive, in winter’s grasp.
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An Open And Shut Case
Why must some people
gather more than they can use
while others give all they get
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Each of us must choose
how widely we will open
our hands and hearts to others.
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Shining Stars
What will help us learn
to sing in chorus as well
as to sing alone?
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To flaming divas,
the task is pointless folly.
To harmonize means sharing!
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Companioned
Is it comforting
that, on this life long journey,
spirit guides accompany?
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Be it spirit guides
or guides enfleshed, it is good
to know we don’t walk alone.
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Hidden Dread
Why is it so hard
to simply say,”I’m sorry”
even when we know we’re wrong?
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A mea culpa
can, sometimes, open a door
to truths one would rather hide.
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Prerequisites
If the world is our
Oyster, why can we never
Seem to find the stinking pearl?
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Perhaps it’s because
we don’t open the oyster
and thus miss the pearl within.
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Hoist with our own Petard
If technology
joined forces with wisdom, what
manner of world might there be?
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A world alien
to egoist upright primates
who’ve learned to ape wisdom?
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Spring Longing
Why do cherries weep,
floral tears of softest pink,
in this joyous time of year?
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Perhaps we mistake
joy for sadness as they bend
to kiss the warming earth.
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Extrospection
How can we come to
understand others
when we barely know ourselves?
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Insight is quite rare.
It’s pretty scary inside there.
So much easier just to stare!
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Zzzzzzz
Ride the Wind
When in a hurry
how can we keep from being
flurried and uncalm?
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Bury the flurry.
Erase the haste and worry
not about the coming storm.
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Ardent Question
Could all this talk of
spring and bloom, bud and blossom,
yield libidinous ardor?
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That’s a question best
answered by the birds and bees
and those ever young at heart.
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It’s a Guy Thing
Did little boy blue
have to blow his horn because
nobody else would?
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The inuendo
that’s galloping through my mind
is best withheld, at this time!
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Wealthy Matters
Does great wealth provide
greater potential to cause
greater good or greater ill?
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It’s all a matter
of what matters to the one
who’s blessed with such wealth.
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Tough Choices
When the least among
us have so little, what do
those who have the most still have?
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Like those with little,
those who have the most still have
a choice of how to use it!
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No Fooling
Now that April fools
had their day, dare we hope the
“fools on the hill” are done too?
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As long as there’s fools’
gold to be had, you can count
on those fools to persevere.
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Bearding the Lion
Who is more foolish
today – the fooler or the
one caught being fooled?
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The true fool is he
who responds in anger to
one who honors him with glee.
Mondo Sedoka 