Where oh where has my
young son gone, where oh where can
he possibly be?
~
Grown old and jaded
everyone, bitter and
salty, as the sea.
Mondo
Would Grow Woods
What if money did
grow on trees – would we change our
currency to leaves?
~
Smarter people would
invest in groves; the greedy
would denude the whole forest.
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Ways Of Knowing
If delusion is
belief despite evidence,
what then could faith be?
~
For some,trust in what
can’t be seen is delusion;
for others it’s simply faith.
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Silent Night Senescence
What is it about
the sound of crickets that stirs
such simple longing?
~
Like punctuation,
crickets chirping lends structure
to timeless, silent evenings.
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A Logical Question
Where does logic go
when desire ventures out
from beneath that heavy rock?
~
Logic wants to know
what desire was doing
under that rock anyway.
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Marching Weather
Could you tell me why
we have to have July with
its heat, mosquitoes, and flies?
~
So we can look back
with longing fond affection
once August invades in force.
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A Slow Release
Given this horrid
summer inferno, how do
we refrain from eruption?
~
If every day we
let off a little steam, we
might prevent an eruption.
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Different Paths
When we seem to be
going nowhere fast, should we
switch direction or change speed?
~
Changing direction
or changing velocity
will not change destination.
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All We Have
When lives fall apart,
how do we reconcile
what is with what was?
~
Sometimes willingness,
courage, and grace are all we
have to see us through.
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Many a Truth…
How might we look past
the ridiculous and find
the truly sublime?
~
The subliminal
message is often hidden
within ridiculousness.
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Self-Evident
How can we declare
Our independence from blind
demagogues and their dogma?
~
If we acknowledge
our interdependence, we
will see independently.
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Seeing Clearly
If we can’t see out
far and we can’t see in deep
why do we bother?
~
Foresight and insight
shine in contradistinction
to insidious hindsight.
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If A Tale Falls In The Forest…
But why must we hear
all of these bogus tall tales
from the mouths of candidates?
~
They can tell those tall
tales, but nothing says we have
to take the time to listen.
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Listen and Learn
How long must we wait
until we’re willing to hear
everyone’s story?
~
Not all tales merit
an ear but the sooner we
listen, the more we can learn.
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Free Fall
When flying blindly,
how can you tell when you’re in
uncharted territory?
~
I find myself in
uncharted territory
pondering your koan.
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Spiritual F-Disk
When filled with regret
how can we create some space
for love to enter?
~
When your heart’s hard drive
fills with regret and hate,
delete those useless programs.
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Blurred Vision
Why must we wage wars,
attacking and defending
symbols we imbue with power?
~
Symbols are seen as
sacred or a threat when viewed
through amygdala’s blurred lens.
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A Matter of Perspective
Why do we think we
can achieve long term goals
with short sighted plans?
~
Time is relative.
To a germ, all goals are long.
To the sun, all plans are short.
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Freighted
Why must weekdays seem
to travel life by freight train
while weekends ride the TGV?
~
Whether days move fast
or days move slow depends on
the load they carry.
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Beneath the Skin
Is there anything
more beautiful than a wise
and forgiving heart?
~
Perceiving beauty
takes an inward journey for
both beholder and beheld.
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Pilgrims’ Progress
Since the road ahead
is shrouded in mystery,
Must we walk that road blindly?
~
Step by step we walk,
seeing only as far as
hearts and minds and eyes can see.
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The View from the Road
Why is it only
in retrospect that the path
we trod grows more clear?
~
The pathway behind
wears the marks of our passage
while the road ahead is clear.
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Schadenfreude or Schadenersatz
Is it so shallow
to wait in gleeful hope
for that house of cards to fall?
~
We don’t have to plumb
the depths to hope for a house
built on lies to fall.
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This Little Light of Mine
How to shine a light
so bright that the willfully
blind at last can see?
~
I fear that, in truth,
any light, sufficiently
bright, would do more harm than good.
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Trumped?
What cosmic message
is conveyed by that turkey
strutting into the roadway?
~
Some think they hold cards
enough to trump those cosmic
messages and win the game.
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Illusory Archetype
What might the Source have
been thinking when families
came into being?
~
“As with every gem,
perfection should be most rare.
This can be your little flaw?”
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Wherever We Go, There We Are
When emotions run
unfettered through our hearts,
what might they find there?
~
One thing is certain –
what they won’t find there are thought,
balance, and moderation.
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All’s Fair
When emotion takes
over and reason takes flight,
are we in for love or war?
~
In both love and war
reason always surrenders
to emotion’s whip.
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Ins And Outs
When, at last, we find
that place in which we find peace,
must we ever venture out?
~
Tempting as it is
to settle in, we must take
our leave with the peace we found.
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Calming Waters
When summer heat holds
us in its sweaty grasp, how
can we not lose our cool?
~
To retain our cool,
seek the shelter of shady
glades and shadowed pools.
Mondo Sedoka 