On a bright, sunny
day what causes some folks’ thoughts
to turn toward the gray?
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Sadly, some people
see not light in their spirit
nor beauty in their mirror.
Poetry
And So It’s Writ
Could it be, that we
write ’cause we can’t draw a tree
and ’cause we can’t hit high C?
~
Why we write remains
a mystery. For some it’s
a simple necessity.
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Remembering Lucy
How bad can a day
that begins with tangerine
clouds turn out to be?
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Tangerine trees and
marmalade skies made good days
for John, Paul, George, and Ringo!
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Worldly Muse
Given a whole world
full of wonders and mentors,
what will be your muse?
~
The world is my muse,
my amusement, my koan,
and my temporary home.
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Meeting Skogynn Pryv
If you were going
to St Ives, how many folks
would you likely meet?
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Seeking quality
I would like to meet only
Cornwall’s Grand Bard, Mick Paynter.
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Grim Tendencies
Why must our journey
so often lead us into
these grim and marshy places?
~
Though our journeys lead
through beauty, it’s the grim we
tend to remember.
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A Well Travelled Tributary
How best to travel
when the way is dark and we
have lost both our will and our way?
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Wallowing blindly,
enduring the tract less void
may be part of the journey.
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To Leave Or Not To Leave
And in leave taking,
what responsibility
do we owe to those we leave?
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Hard questions like these
have no easy answers, but
love will help us address them.
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Taking Leave
When wracked with pain
insurmountable, is an
exit plan permissible?
~
Whether suffering
or not, we should all ponder
how we’d prefer to leave this life.
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A Gentle Delusion
Does father really
know best or does mother just
let him think he does?
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Neither Father nor
Mother know as much as they
believe. Ignorance is bliss.
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It’s All In The Game
When shooting the moon,
Should you lead your target or
Just aim high and say a prayer?
~
In the game of hearts,
it’s all in the hand you’ve been
dealt and how you play your cards.
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Diddling the High?
If cows jump over
moons, what is left for us mere
mortals to attempt?
~
Teach cats to fiddle,
and the little dog to laugh,
or tableware elopement?
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Soul Food
When hunger rumbles
deep within our starving souls,
what repast will fill the void?
~
When the soul hungers
the divine rejoices to
have a chance to fill the void.
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Bon Appétit
If you were planning
a menu for a full life,
what would you include?
~
A meaty vocation,
an aged vintage romance,
and some salty memories.
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Fulfillment
A warm loaf of bread,
a cool jug of wine and thou…
Did Khayyám miss anything?
~
A bit of heaven
such as this needs only deep
gratitude to be complete.
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All that Glitters
Is there anything
better than a golden end
to a rain soaked day?
~
A golden Lager
and tropical cabana
might win by a nose…
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Quality Dining
Considering meals,
is it quality food or
company that makes the day?
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Even quality
food turns to mush when we dine
with company less sublime.
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Edgewise Words
Is it better to
sup with jays or eat crow? – a
major question of our times
~
A meal with either;
Heaven for the introvert.
No burdensome social noise!
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Controlling Questions
Why do we struggle
to control actions beyond
us before we leash our own?
~
To control or not
to control – what, when and how –
those are the questions.
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Choices
When frustration rules
and patience flees, how can we
regain our own sovereignty ?
~
What is sovereignty?
Freedom to choose? Or control?
Control is an illusion!
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Contingencies
Is it a comfort,
when viewing the road ahead,
that we’ve gotten where we are?
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It all depends on
whether we are behind bars
or walking free.
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A Limb and a Prayer
When we so yearn for
solid ground, what will help us
on this uneven terrain?
~
For a species born
in trees, unused to ground,
surely comfort can be found.
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Weighing Alternatives
When facing a fight
will weapons and wits win us
wars or weave us worse worries?
~
First we must learn what’s
worth fighting for and then do
our best to win without war.
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The Might to Heal
So, all in all what
would you say to those who think
pens are mightier than swords?
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Swords might cut or kill
but mighty pens might heal, which
simple swords might never do.
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What Writing May Do
Writing may help fill
our spiritual void;
what else might it accomplish?
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Writing can also
empty our ego as we
struggle to give the void form.
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Almighty Pen
What more can be said
by orators or poets
that hasn’t been said before?
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As much can be said
as can be seen and be felt.
Thus is poetry’s power.
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First Things First
If we just follow
the faith deep within our hearts,
can we not find paths to peace?
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Ah, but there’s the rub.
We must first find the time to
meet the faith that lies within.
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Faith not Religion
What can the world’s faiths
teach us when they seem at such
odds with each other?
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They may speak their truth,
these Rabbis, Imams and Priests,
but true faith, dwells within.
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No Beyond
And while we’re looking
beyond obvious meanings,
what’s up with the nightly news?
~
Whether night or day,
the news, though changing, remains
the same -some good, mostly bad.
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True Motives
Do you really think
Jack and Jill went up that hill
to fetch a pail of water?
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It seems more likely
they struggled up that slope
to flee an older sibling!
Mondo Sedoka 