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Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

0 posted 1999-12-09 01:24 PM

The world is your garden

If you've used a sword to tame
And the shield, of who's to blame,
Then you've used excessive power,
Just to smell a simple flower.

If you've killed a dragon in his shrine
And have left a bloody trail behind,
Then you've used excessive power,
To smell the scent of a flower.

If you've cursed the face of trend,
Then just try another end,
If not you've used excessive power.
Just to smell a simple flower.

Do not shield, but try to yield
And you will find yourself afield.
Waking in a realm of hours,
Smelling a world of flowers.

But think you not the world of yield,
Is easier, than the sword and shield.

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

1 posted 1999-12-09 01:28 PM

Beautiful, Seymour. True, to yield takes far more courage than to fight! This is so wonderful!

Denise

jbouder
Member Elite

since 1999-09-18

Posts 2534
Whole Sort Of Genl Mish Mash

2 posted 1999-12-09 02:00 PM

There's wisdom in this, you know! Great poem, Seymour. And a true one too.

Jim

"If I rest, I rust." -Martin Luther

Martie

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 1999-12-09 02:10 PM

Wonderful Seymour!

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 1999-12-09 03:43 PM

To yield one's pride in one's stride
as one hurries to do right, not wrong,
catches you up if you go too fast,
and {bomp} on your head you go, "bong!"

So while you are down there on the ground there,
amid all the flowers sweet,
take a bit from Sy's poem, do not roam,
from where the flowers are at your feet.

blewaway5
Junior Member

since 1999-12-09

Posts 10

5 posted 1999-12-09 05:36 PM

I enjoyed your poem. I got a feeling a Zen sort of feeling from it actually; a sort of "if you just ride the ebb and flow of life then yo will truly experience life" feeling. Anyway, I liked it.

--blewaway5

Severn
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-17

Posts 7704

6 posted 1999-12-09 05:44 PM

O Sy, great wise man of the...South, North? Oh well, wherever you are...
Please tell me, will my harvests be fruitful this year? Will my twelve eldest sons find suitable wives?

hehe - this is a wonderful piece, my friend.

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

7 posted 1999-12-09 09:19 PM

Denise the sweet,
You are so right, *L*
JBouder
It takes wisdom to see wisdom, thank you.
Martie,
I'll cover your wonderful
and up you a thank you. *L*
Sunshine,
You are so bright
and just as right. *L*
Blew,
Yes there was a little Zen in the pen, thank you.
Severn,
If they walk with you in the garden they will *L*

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