When the need to be
right is so strong, how can we
ever admit we are wrong?
~
When we surrender
ego in the name of peace,
we demonstrate divine strength.
When the need to be
right is so strong, how can we
ever admit we are wrong?
~
When we surrender
ego in the name of peace,
we demonstrate divine strength.
Can we, together,
like a band of brothers, stand
united despite wedges?
~
If that band also
includes sisters we can stand
united despite wedges.
What helps us open
our hearts when the first thing we
encounter is pain?
~
Water is made of
hydrogen and oxygen;
likewise love and pain make life.
Why do ladies dap
their wrists and necks with drops
of whale regurgitation?`
~
Why do gentlemen
persist in asking foolish
questions such as this?
If we don’t know if
we’re coming or going, what
exactly is it we know?
~
Listen! Your heart knows
emotions differ between
motion to and motion from.
If agony serves
us as proof of life, are you
living to your fullest yet?
~
Living life to its
fullest, we experience
both extremes and the middle.
When someone asks, “How
do you do?” is it ok
to let them know that you don’t?
~
A “Howdie do” can
be courtesy or question.
Which can be hard to fathom.
Must we always rush
or can enough be enough
so we can enjoy the hush?
~
UnAmerican
questions such as these are proof
we need to guard our borders.
As we look ahead
to a new school year what would
be better to leave behind?
~
Car accidents and
shattered cell phone touch screens and
chronic procrastination.
How can flowers bloom
buffeted by ceaseless gales
mired in this vile sludge?
~
Is it our current
political climate of
which you poetically speak?