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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2008-10-14 08:22 PM

Discovering Wisdom

‘Tis said, and so they call it, busy this life must be
and many a toil invented to put one’s hand to
and to be sure, equally true, many a pleasure
for balance calls a truce between heaven and hell
even while moderation teaches of common sense –
or would and tries but who can give her the time?

I was young once, though it seems no longer so
but what have the busy years taught of wisdom?
the desires that tore at my heart in early Summer
remain and fuel it still at the onset of a long Winter
as if naught but a few short months had gone by.

Of information I gathered much along the way
for she is a cheap and tawdry commodity
however scantily clad or well dressed she comes
wrapped to excess in billion dollar advertisements
but how easy she is to forget and to replace:
so well do I remember the insipid taste
of her too common wine at her too common bars.

There is also that which is called ‘experience’
though now I near the end of my twisting ways
I have to stop and ponder to what end the skills
I trained my ape-body to perform along the way:
No, I say to myself, wisdom does not reside in those;
if I thought to find her there I was indeed a fool.

‘Believe’ I was enjoined, ‘come into the faith of God
for therein it is all wise men find true wisdom’
and how, between lessons, did I my best to dance!
(Could so many people be so wrong about so much?)
And how I tested this belief, that belief and the other,
and sought explanations for what did not work!

But wisdom will not be so easily sidetracked –
and every night I returned disappointed and tired
she had these simple words to bring me a new hope:
“Each day, each moment you dare rise above yourself,
fear not for it is I, Wisdom, holding your trembling hand.”

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

1 posted 2008-10-14 10:29 PM

A wonderful, heart felt post, Windwalker!!
Your poem is full of insight and yes, wisdom that comes with the passing of years.

Fabulous writing, and so much good food for thought!!

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2008-10-15 02:28 AM

Enjoyed...James

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2008-10-15 03:43 PM

Ok, this needs to go back up. Thoughtful post, WW! Enjoyed!

Helen

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

4 posted 2008-10-15 10:49 PM

Enjoyed the Write!!

ARCTIC WIND

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

5 posted 2008-11-13 04:02 PM

how did I miss this one first time 'round?!

serious applause!!

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2008-11-13 08:20 PM

I certainly relate to this soul searching poem, WW. I don't know how I missed it the first time around either.
Ida

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