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The Heart of Darkness

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

My son, if the moon

could talk to the sun, what do

you think she would say?

~

“You light up my life,

give me hope to carry on,

and you fill my nights with song.”

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Tagged interpretation, LeAnn Rimes, lyric, meaning, music

Sep·30

Only Then

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

If the proof is in

the pudding, is it fifty,

or sixty, or older still?

~

At whatever age

we are, the test of any

pudding comes with the eating.

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Tagged proof, pudding, still, whiskey

Sep·29

Peircing Gaze and Razor Pen

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

What draws a poet

to look both at and beyond

the ordinary?

~

Longing deep enough

to strip away the surface;

endless search for hidden truth.

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Tagged expression, insight, meaning, poetic vision, seeking, sharing, writing

Sep·28

Elective Matters

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Is the problem with

running, knowing when to start

or, more likely, when to quit?

~

To run or not to

run lies at the very heart 

of this elective matter.

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Sep·27

A Two Headed Dragon

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When temptation rears

its seductive head, how do

we go about keeping ours?

~

Relax. All’s not lost.

That ugly, hungry, head might

be creation’s crown instead.

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Tagged creation, motivation, seduction, temptation

Sep·26

Burned Out

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

What is one to do

when the universe calls for

steam but all the wood is burnt?

~

This is what happens

when the universe calls and

we and the wood are burned out.

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Tagged decay, drive, energy, entropy, fire, fuel, heat, heat death, passion

Sep·25

Ways and Means

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Which is easier:

to go with the flow or nod

and appear to know?

~

Neither the dead fish

nor the bobble-headed doll

are finding much wisdom.

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Tagged actors, complainers, drifters, goals, means, paths, seekers, ways

Sep·24

Simply True

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Is there anything

simpler than wanting ease

that’s harder to get?

~

Wanting is simple;

getting hardly ever is –

a simple, uneasy truth.

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Tagged desires, gifts, needs, wants, wishes, work

Sep·23

Simple Gifts

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When simplicity

is not so simple, why not

go for multiplicity?

 ~

Simplicity is

simple! You simply have to

labor for its creation.

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Tagged grace, labor, prace, simplicity, work

Sep·22

Eyes To See

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Does the cult of fame

serve more as an indictment

of the famous or of us?

~

Blind worship cannot

serve either the worshiped or

the worshiper well.

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Sep·21

Unanswered Question

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

When real issues go

ignored and lies unchallenged,

what happens to a nation?

~

The state of nations

rests in the quite able hands

of its honest citizens.

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Sep·20

Extended Relief

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When the pain rises,

like mad sparks, shocking vision,

where can relief’s glimmer be?

~

I’ve heard when one’s heart

also opens to the pain

of others,  relief can come.

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Sep·19

Assessing Obsolescence

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

How do we shift gears

when we’re stuck in park and can’t

seem to get moving?

~

Perhaps shifting gears

is simply insufficient.

Maybe we need to switch cars.

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Tagged age, change, gears, progress, vehicles

Sep·18

Eye Of The Beholder

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Would you call manic,

that reckless fool, who’s surfing

this hurricane’s jagged break?

~

He’s the one who’d call

us comfort-loving fools. Who’s

to say where the real truth lies?

 

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Sep·17

Riding the Storm Out

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

After we’ve taken

a fall, how best to cope with

the waves of feeling?

~

Just wave them good-bye.

Although they may rock us now,

they are on their way elsewhere.

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Tagged emotion, fleeting, passing, transient, waves

Sep·16

The Sixty-four-Thousand Dollar Question

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Can capital learn

the hard lessons of labor,

or must they labor in vain?

~

The question persists:

do we have the capital

to acknowledge labor’s gifts?

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Tagged capital, labor, learning, management

Sep·15

Hidden Produce

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Is it possible

to glean anything of worth

from a fallow field?

~

The worth hiding in

fallow fields, is found within

the calm of resting soil.

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Tagged capacity, diminishing returns, drive, earnings, exhaustion, fatigue, produce, production, yield

Sep·14

Coarse Correction

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

When good works fall prey

to baser human actions,

how, again, to find our way?

~

It all begins when

we’re willing to see the truth

and change course from there.

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Sep·13

Opium of the Masses

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When it’s night and storms

fill the sky, are poets born,

or tellers of horror tales?

~

From each according

to ability and need

of the audience!

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Sep·12

Fortune’s Favor

Posted by 2garrabrants

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When the last grain falls,

the ticking clock is silent,

how will your beat carry on?

~

Fortune favored me.

My children are poets, not

dead beats, so the song goes on

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Tagged legacy, time

Sep·11

Unknown Turnings

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

How many roads must

we go down before we find

our way back to each other?

~

Just keep on driving.

We may not meet on the way

but at the destination.

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Tagged destination, in passing, journey, meeting, roads, unity

Sep·10

Curiously

Posted by 2garrabrants

1

After spending time

With grandkids in museums,

Any insights or musings ?

~

Curiously, they

were more interested than I.

Evolution must exist. 

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Tagged art, curiosity, grandparents, kids, museum

Sep·09

A Divine Collect

Posted by 2garrabrants

1

How can we insure

with each passing year, we’ll grow

wiser, more compassionate?

~

We must be like gods:

hearts open, desires known,

from ourselves no secrets hid.

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Tagged compassion, faith, grace, introspection, wisdom

Sep·08

Subjected

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Like Henri Michaux,

poets should write what they know,

so what will be your subject?

~

Sassy sons who plague

their mothers with questions such

as this is what I know best.

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Tagged experience, travel, wisdom, writing

Sep·07

Habituation

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Even though we know

nothing is permanent, what

is it that makes change so hard

~

Taking a new road

always seems to take more time

than the old, well traveled path.

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Tagged change, conveniences, fears, habits, paths, roads

Sep·06

Secrets

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

When secrets are hid,

could it be best they stay so,

or must they all be revealed?

~

 It’s no secret that

we wish complex questions such

as these had simple answers.

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Tagged better, Hidden, revealed, secrets, worse

Sep·05

Shocking Truths

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

Why is it so hard

sometimes to be clear what is

 wheat and what is chaff?

~

The tooth always knows.

The art lies in saving teeth

the shock of letting us know.

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Tagged chaff, discovery, mill grit, shocking, unpleasant, wheat

Sep·04

Running Hot And Cold

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

As days shorten and

weather cools, how long before

we miss the heat of summer?

~

When it grows cold and

we lose electricity,

you can bet we’ll miss the heat.

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Tagged change, complaint, longing, seasons

Sep·03

Body Surfing Stormy Seas

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

As the winds of change

ripple across the surface

of our lives, should we dive deep?

~

To dive or to leap-

questions pondered by all who

play in ever changing waves.

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Tagged dive, leap, storms, surf, survive, waves

Sep·02

Profit and Loss

Posted by 2garrabrants

0

At what cost, writing?

And at what price is meaning

when sacrificed to profit?

~

Writers profit by

finding meaning and pleasure

in the words that come their way.

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Tagged cost, meaning, profit, sacrifice, weiting

Sep·01

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