Any suggestions
on how elders can best cope
with youthful indiscretions?
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Just harken back to
your many youthful follies
and remember, you survived.
wisdom
A Divine Collect
How can we insure
with each passing year, we’ll grow
wiser, more compassionate?
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We must be like gods:
hearts open, desires known,
from ourselves no secrets hid.
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Subjected
Like Henri Michaux,
poets should write what they know,
so what will be your subject?
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Sassy sons who plague
their mothers with questions such
as this is what I know best.
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Legislating Nature
When even Einstein
says knowledge must be paired with
thoughtful care, who can argue?
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Wise fools and con men
leap immediately forth,
along with politicians.
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Certain Knowledge
Is it possible
for a teen to acknowledge
a parent may know some things?
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When I was thirteen
I knew it all; happily,
I’ve grown dumber since.
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One Sure Cure
What is the best cure
for adolescent angst and
cocksure ignorance?
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Many lifetimes does
the path to enlightenment
require of our spirit.
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Stardust
So tell me, my fine
son, how can we still shine when
our light has grown dim ?
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“Luminous beings
Are we, not this crude matter.”
Our glow, inexhaustible.
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What’s Great
AND ANYWAY, what
is so great about wisdom?
It keeps no demons at bay.
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Demons come and they
go and those on wisdom’s seat
simply watch the show.
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Sophistry or Solipsism
What do children and
fools have to offer that wise
men struggle to grasp?
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Being a child
And a foolish man some call
Wise, I have no quick reply.
Mondo Sedoka 