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A Broader View

Posted by 2garrabrants

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In our frantic rush

to achieve our lofty goals,

what is lost along the way?

~

A narrow focus

plus speed may hit the taget

yet still miss the mark.

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Tagged goals, journeys, paths, roads

Apr·30

Straight and Narrow Ways

Posted by 2garrabrants

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On this twisting path

how will we ever get straight

 and how will we know it’s true?

~

But is the straight way

the true path of truth or is

it just the highway to hell?

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Tagged destinations, journeys, paths, roads

Apr·29

Certainties

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When even the good

earth proves unreliable,

can stability exist?

~

Nothing stable stays,

except, perhaps, our wish for

such when times seem sweet.

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Tagged predictable, reliable, tremors, uncertain

Apr·28

Lazy Days of Rays

Posted by 2garrabrants

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On these sunlit days

when even the grouchiest

smile, what is ours to do?

~

We could join them, like

Iguanas, and bask on some

sun warmed stones, leisurely.

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Tagged comfort, heat, light, love, mood

Apr·27

Meaning and Method

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Since burdens mask truth,

must we remove mountain tops

to reveal our true meaning?

~

Instead of masking

truth, burdens can force us to

climb mountains and find truth there.

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Apr·26

Overburden

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Would you say meaning

is something found, created,

or simply not there?

~

As artifacts lie

buried beneath ancient dross,

meanings are oft obscured.

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Tagged archaeology, dig, meaning

Apr·25

Being Found

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Is there limit to

what may be found when seeking

with an open heart?

~

When we’re present with

an open heart, there is no

limit to being found.

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Tagged heart, seeking

Apr·24

A Broader World

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When surrounded by

darkness what will help us find

our way back to light?

~

Embrace the darkness!

Travel by feeling and smell

until the daylight returns

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Tagged sight, sound, touch

Apr·23

Realms of Being

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Who said poetry

Requires great effort and

Some visionary forethought?

~

Sometimes we poets

enter a wordless realm where

effort and forethought don’t dwell.

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Tagged poetry, wordlessness, words

Apr·22

Minimalist Mondo

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Apr·21

About Those Plans

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When everything else has

failed, what will be, alas,

our ultimate plan zed?

~

That is precisely

when we set aside our plans

and listen for the Divine’s.

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Apr·20

Riding the Tiger

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Please tell me a way

to make music when the heart

can not keep its wild beat?

~

When the beat, my dear,

fluctuates from bar to bar?

Well now, they call that Ragtime!

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Apr·19

Entwined

Posted by 2garrabrants

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We have tried standing

firm like Holly. Is it, now,

Ivy’s time to entwine us?

~

Ivy and Holly,

evergreen reminders there’s

always time for both.

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Apr·18

Holly Disapproves

Posted by 2garrabrants

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If you could tell me

why the ivy twines, I might

share some secrets too.

~

Ancient Druids say

ivy twines like maidens’ hair

green, alive, in winter’s grasp.

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Tagged Holly, icons, Ivy, spring, verdant, winter

Apr·17

An Open And Shut Case

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Why must some people

gather more than they can use

while others give all they get

~

Each of us must choose

how widely we will open

our hands and hearts to others.

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Apr·16

Shining Stars

Posted by 2garrabrants

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What will help us learn

to sing in chorus as well

as to sing alone?

~

To flaming divas,

the task is pointless folly.

To harmonize means sharing!

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Apr·15

Companioned

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Is it comforting

that, on this life long journey,

spirit guides accompany?

~

Be it spirit guides

or guides enfleshed, it is good

to know we don’t walk alone.

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Apr·14

Hidden Dread

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Why is it so hard

to simply say,”I’m sorry”

even when we know we’re wrong?

~

A mea culpa

can, sometimes, open a door

to truths one would rather hide.

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Apr·13

Prerequisites

Posted by 2garrabrants

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If the world is our

Oyster, why can we never

Seem to find the stinking pearl?

~

Perhaps it’s because

we don’t open the oyster

and thus miss the pearl within.

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Tagged oyster, pearl, world

Apr·12

Hoist with our own Petard

Posted by 2garrabrants

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If technology

joined forces with wisdom, what

manner of world might there be?

~

A world alien

to egoist upright primates

who’ve learned to ape wisdom?


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Apr·11

Spring Longing

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Why do cherries weep,

floral tears of softest pink,

in this joyous time of year?

~

Perhaps we mistake

joy for sadness as they bend

to kiss the warming earth.

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Tagged cherry blossoms, joy, spring, tears

Apr·10

Extrospection

Posted by 2garrabrants

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How can we come to

understand others

when we barely know ourselves?

~

Insight is quite rare.

It’s pretty scary inside there.

So much easier just to stare!

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Tagged extrospection, introspection

Apr·09

Zzzzzzz

Posted by 2garrabrants

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As time grows shorter

blank page asks, “What is the sound

of one poet napping?”

~

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Tagged question, Zen

Apr·08

Ride the Wind

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When in a hurry

how can we keep from being

flurried and uncalm?

~

Bury the flurry.

Erase the haste and worry

not about the coming storm.

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Tagged flurry, haste, hurry, worry

Apr·07

Ardent Question

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Could all this talk of

spring and bloom, bud and blossom,

yield libidinous ardor?

~

That’s a question best

answered by the birds and bees

and those ever young at heart.

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Apr·06

It’s a Guy Thing

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Did little boy blue

have to blow his horn because

nobody else would?

~

The inuendo

that’s galloping through my mind

is best withheld, at this time!

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Tagged blow, boys, horns, inuendo

Apr·05

Wealthy Matters

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Does great wealth provide

greater potential to cause

greater good or greater ill?

~

It’s all a matter

of what matters to the one

who’s blessed with such wealth.

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Apr·04

Tough Choices

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When the least among

us have so little, what do

those who have the most still have?

~

Like those with little,

those who have the most still have

a choice of how to use it!

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Tagged abuse, greed, noblesse oblige, purpose, use, wealth

Apr·03

No Fooling

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Now that April fools

had their day, dare we hope the

“fools on the hill” are done too?

~

As long as there’s fools’

gold to be had, you can count

on those fools to persevere.

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Apr·02

Bearding the Lion

Posted by 2garrabrants

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Who is more foolish

today – the fooler or the

one caught being fooled?

~

The true fool is he

who responds in anger to

one who honors him with glee.

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Tagged fool, foolishness, fun, glee, grouch, grouse

Apr·01

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