Thursday, December 22, 2011
Gift Of Giving
Friday, October 7, 2011
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It opens the windows to the world
And leaves you with treasures that can never be taken away"
Friday, May 13, 2011
Doors
The opportunities
Of yesterday
From labor hospital room
To crib at home
Our first security
From room to room
The classroom door so tall
With anxious faces waiting for the bell
First hotel room
Down the hall
Her bed most prominent of all
Beyond each door a dear one
Parent, siblings
Finally the lover
How secretive
How secure
Our room, the kiss to hug
Massage and rub
Do the things that lovers do
Greeting doors
Rejecting doors
Doors simply man’s tools
Tall doors for the brilliant and the fool
Older doors to interviews
Doors of sadness, gladness and good bye
Through door
Comes the view
I am sitting in my bedroom
Door wide open
Messiah and hopeful friends
Never an intruder
The free open door delight
Away from multitude of strife
Prophets Armageddon
Some have a lock
Some many locks
Some doors inviting
Some exciting
Some squeak
Some tilted
Imagine yourself
Which doors have you entered
Ah so many each day
Today, conscious
From space to space
In the privacy of our study
The bathroom, basement and attic
Doors that hold secrets
Many doors of lifetime
Box in the spacious room
Dazzling view beyond the door
Which novels did I enter
Doors show the disarray of its inhabitant
Pain and helpless nerves of abysmal poverty
The door automatic to the elevator
Door open in hotel
The heavy, unencumbered door into the building
Rushing to make the bus before the door closes
So many, many open doors
Taking me to the most titillating
Destination
Doors of many colors
Great hopes
Doors of fear, frustration
Doors I never want to enter again
Doors once opened
See those human angelic faces
Part of youth
Parents young, bidding
Full of love, endearing
Exciting doors into theaters
Concerts
Ballet
Most splendid choruses
Which doors will I open tomorrow
Will I perceive man’s war at first glance
Doors where reception celebration
Overwhelms me
Yes there were doors slammed in my face
Doors closed, finger caught
Shoulder banged, bleeding nose
Doors are solid, demanding
Swinging
It all depends if you enter or leave
Doors are merely extensions of
Our boxes that we live in
Fire doors each cubicle or hall
Doors of separation of sound
Of smell, of life
If you play with pet birds
Never leave doors open
I am your pet bird
For truly doors are not natural
Where in the mountain, valleys
Expansive open meadow field
Do you see doors?
Come, we servants, owners
Have the power to open many doors
By habit and training to close them
Doors to keep in or out, lock (double lock)
Two perspectives, two sides
Depending on which side you stand
The fight between private independence
Openness, without doors, sharing trusting
Give me the open space within
Freedom of movement without
Opening and closing doors
Without fear, concern
After all, isn’t my house your house
Innocent doors simply respond
Swinging in each direction
Barriers, protestors, incarcerators
It’s your choice to unlock, unhinge
And throw the key away
Outside the open space awaits you
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Life In Flux
Oral or written word
Excites the world of ideas
Expands the horizon
Has no limits
Your mind too,
is activated now
Revolutionary
Dangerous
Convoluting
Scheming
Contriving
The creative mind.
In silence blossoms
Harnessed,
caged prisoner
Ready to telegraph to freedom
Ready for revolution.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Ready To Take Our Place
A mystic light-like meteor
Dashed over the countryside as if to score
All were in awe
For those who witnessed and saw
And nothing stayed the same
Pear and apple trees so rotten,
The cow went lame
The corn turned green
Famine and heat as the grass dried lean
Tree leaves too turned brown
People left, the village now a ghost town
For days the chickens laid no eggs
Only the caterpillars and the pest had a million legs
And farmer’s wife went into deep depression
As if she met the spooky ghost at dreamy session
Maybe the cosmic rays from a planetoid
Turned tables and created natures’ void
Or the riveting energy from a meteor
Brought this disaster to the core
Or perhaps a warning of another planet in outer space
Are responsible for the damage, ready to take our place.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
- Shoe Soldiers -
Pointing in opposite directions
White shorts, black stockings in juxtaposition
One slipper here, another there
Await my entry into the unknown day
The ticking clock in rhythm
Says look at me, but I am too tired
Until it is light again, I will sleep
Shoe soldiers you must wait
Until I come for you
Blithe Spirit
Blithe spirit travels on the sunbeam
On ten thousand dust particles
Transports to a mysterious destination
Open mouth - inhales
Enraptured, captured by the spirit
"Why now - why me?"
He happily acknowledges
Today fate is my bride
I shall tarry, romp and ride
The joyous overtones of merriment
Accolades heaved, success granted
Feverish, he decides, almost concurs
Was it all perception, or reality?
Its stamp is tough and lasting
Computer space awarded, the victor
With open arms he/she is received
Believes until the battery dies down
Then the silent shadow vanishes
with the sinking sun.