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Ponderable and poem for Monday, November 23, 2009
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A dangerous place to stand is in the way of someone else's highest calling.
Pressure
In a house where Usually prevails,
where Always-used-to guides,
where What-other-people-think
and Never-been-done-before deter,
a cork may pop one day up
out of a pressurized bottle
to let wine spray the ceiling... more »
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Ponderable and poem for Sunday, November 22, 2009
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We age in years, but we mature in moments.
Nominal
Nothing got
my mother's goat
for long--
she'd settle it.
I had become far too old
to be calling her Mommy
but still was
and didn't want to
but couldn't change.
One day while practicing
my trumpet in the basement
(in deference to TV watchers)... more »
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Ponderable and poem for Saturday, November 21, 2009
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The heart is the best advisor, and also the nearest.
Permissions
From whom does your life
have its license to live?
Not from Rome or Scriptures
or fine-robed Interpreters--
not from parent or teacher,
policeman or mayor.
Your frame can be governed
but your heart heeds the One
as butterflies do... more »
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Ponderable and poem for Friday, November 20, 2009
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Higher education trains your mind to feel good later by making it feel terrible now.
No Darkness, No Diamonds
If life is going well,
don't write.
Know why?
'Cause you can't.
Know why?
'Cause your creativity
is all clogged up
with contentment.
Writing amidst blessings
is bleeding without wounds.... more »
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Ponderable and poem for Thursday, November 19, 2009
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Plants reach out for the light, while humans reach in.
Keeping Here
I wake to morning's
window-filtered sounds
and hear a
cardinal outside
my bedroom,
daring to fill
the early air with a
questioning refrain:
"Where's here?
Where's here?
Where's here?"
An idea flashes brainward... more »
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Ponderable and poem for Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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You may wish on a star, but you get what you are. Grief Is a Thief
Grief is a thief
you have urged
to take you away
but with your own
key locks you,
wet with tears,
inside your musty
woolen closet and
turns out the light.
Dark in your trap
shared with moths
you cry long past dry... more »
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Ponderable and poem for Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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Knock, then realize you've always been inside. Crack the Sky I cracked the sky And all the stars fell Into a pool Like egg yolks. I threw the crescent moon Like a boomerang But it returned To its distance. I pried the earth loose From the sun But gravity broke my lever And the earth stayed. So I just fixed... more »
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Ponderable and poem for Monday, November 16, 2009
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Thank God if your car breaks down oftener than your body. Some bodies are lemons. Confined Nothing but a precise second hand is moving within the solitary stillness of this house. I convalesce and convalesce while reading the daily wallpaper. Knickknacks cling tightly to their positions, dumbly flaunting their faded novelty... more »
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Ponderable and poem for Sunday, November 15, 2009
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See with your heart--it never needs glasses. Love Is Sunlight twinkles yellow off the neighbor's tree leaves, stirred by a sibilant breeze. All is well. The sky is empty, empty, empty, and azure. Do not worry. The rose window decal on our east window glows with what glass and plastic know of love-- crimson, aqua, yellow, and amethyst,... more »
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Ponderable and poem for Saturday, November 14, 2009
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Pain kindly wakes up stupidity lest it slumber through eternity. Pain and Promise If only it How can I When will this Can I ever Is there any Why am I This is too Better is later This shall pass Now to learn We are loved Never all alone Be in being Endure in light ******* Alan Harris Thinker's Daily Ponderable... more »
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