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.
Mondo
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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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.
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Heart Problems
On our myopic
leaders: Is their vision fault
a problem of eye or heart?
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To see or not to
see is a question for all
leaders’ and followers” hearts.
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Blind Bindings
When did our leaders
lose concern for others and
turn the focus on themselves?
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Mighty myopic,
are they not? They can’t see past
their fear, to clearer futures.
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Unseasoned Freedoms
Our founding fathers
did not fight for our freedom
to impress others, did they?
~
You might be thinking
not of our founders but of
Young Turks on the hill.
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Buyer Beware
But what about those
who peddle us their poisons
in liberty shaped bottles?
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Just as clothes don’t make
the man, neither does container’s
shape reveal what lies within.
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Hard Though It May Be
When confronted by
harsh and bitter, unpleasant
truth, what is the best response?
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Because the truth can
set us free, we must embrace
unpleasant liberators.
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New Spring for Old School
How likely is it
that we will ever see real
liberty at Liberty?
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I suspect I’m not
“at liberty” to say, but I’ll
bet “Sweet Briar” flowers first!
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Heavenly Offering
Since we’ve managed
to vint heavenly nectar,
what is manna’s recipe?
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Manna’s recipe,
at the risk of sounding not
modest, is momma’s.
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What Light Can Do
And when that light shines,
What manner of creepy things
Will scurry for deeper clefts?
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When light reaches breadth
and depth, perhaps then creepy
things will be transformed.
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Final Thoughts
And what, do pray tell,
Is it, about our demise,
That seeds such dread in us?
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Ah, if only it
were not so final perhaps
we’d be able to relax.
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Best Laid Plans
With united goals
and singular purpose,
how can we be overcome?
~
Trust me, my dear son,
when I say we have somehow
always found a way.
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The Real Deal
Words can not describe
The truth of any thing. So,
Why do we talk constanly
~
The truth that silence
brings can pierce our defenses
and reveal reality.
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Cutting Critique
When ignorance is
bliss becomes the foundation
of belief, what can be done?
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You can quote Occam
to the closed minded fools,
but his razor will miss them.
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Rock Hard
If the Almighty
made this yesterday, can’t he
heal all our rifts tomorrow?
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The earth might be more
cooperative than our
hardened human hearts.
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Comings And Goings
Since years always pass,
isn’t it better to note
as they come not when they’re gone?
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While it is good
to note comings and goings,
it’s great to be present now.
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The Colbert Solution
It’s tough not to cry
In the face of Old Nick’s lies.
Is indignation better?
~
Don’t let Old Nick snag
you with his lasso of lies.
Tie him in knots with laughter.
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Devil’s Guising Grounds
If angels dance on
the head of a pin, what is
the devil’s venue?
~
The Supreme Courthouse?
House of Representatives?
The C.I.A. Headquarters?
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A Comedy Of Errors
Why do we allow
the mongers to peddle us
fear in these wholesale job lots?
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We’ve forgotten how
to laugh them out of business.
Let’s begin right now.
Mondo Sedoka 