Small Stone, January 2, 2012
Casting eyes ‘cross garden,
Then looking b’yond I see
The desert, pure and natural
Greeting, inspiring me
I’m grateful
For glittering eyes
Green ones
Jan 022012
Aug 302011
Want the change.
Be inspired by the flame
Where everything shines as it disappears.
The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so much
As the curve of the body as it turns away.
— Rainier Maria Rilke
And now, a rondelet, inspired by Rilke…
Change beckons, “Come!”
Turn, curve, open up, discover
Change beckons, “Come!”
Hone not pieces, parts, but the sum
Heed not carping of another
Stoke your fire, let no-one smother
Change beckons, “Come!”
*written for and posted at Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
Aug 242011
Soar, eat ether,
see what has never been seen,
depart, be lost,
but climb.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Like Vincent, Charles, Oscar, Paul, and Henri
I AM tempted to soar
~ surprising none more than me ~
Via Absinthe
Conservative, risk-aversive, straight-narrow, certainly
I’ve a craving for ether
Yearn to rise up and see
What’s never been
Fear of departure, lest forever lost
I analyze hazards
Consider all costs
Of climbing
And I choose
* Vincent van Gogh, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, Paul Verlaine, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were all known drinkers of absinthe.
ether ~ a : the rarefied element formerly believed to fill the upper regions of space b : the upper regions of space : heavens.
Aug 152011
“One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn,
is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure,
in the common, the near at hand-
to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.”
- John Burroughs
Heaven lies about me
Here ~
Every single day
through flora, fauna, human form
Divinity does say
This world is filled with wonder
Enjoy it.
Laugh. Dance. Play.
Love yourself.
Love others.
Walk with Grace and pray.
Namaste
Jul 152011
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration; I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To Goethe, a Haiku, with gratitude for wisdom shared…
This and ev’ry day
I shall strive to recognize
Power, Grace, Yours, Mine
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~ Ω ~
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~ We Are Divine ~
