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Open Poetry #48

She's Got It! The Rain in Spain . . .

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2013-10-02 01:18 PM

SHE’S GOT IT! THE RAIN IN SPAIN . . .
1 June 2013

After all these years
of wondering
where my health came from,
I think I’ve got it now!

It isn’t exercise
for I haven’t time for that any more,
or rather I don’t make the time.

It isn’t food
for I hardly eat anything
mainly for financial reasons.

It isn’t careful medication.
I have neither
the time,
nor the money,
nor the interest
nor the need
for that.

It isn’t that I think about my health
or have medical checkups or tests
or watch any of those dreary, medical TV programs
designed to send one scurrying to the nearest doctor.
I don’t have a doctor and anyway
I have far more interesting and pressing things
to think about.

I think it is my passion
for everything
I know or seek to know,
the well-being of the few people in my life,
humanity out there in general
often, not too specific, though;
and every animal that ever walked, hopped, flew, slithered, swam or anything-elsed the planet,
especially my own horse, cats and dogs in Heaven and my cat and dog on Earth
my car, Gretta the Jetta and all her predecssors,
my work of the moment, no matter what,
the magic of languages,
the soulfood of poetry,
the comfort and exhilaration of a soulmate
no matter how short the tumultuous duration,
the excitement of computer software,
the wonder of nature in microcosm and macrocosm,
ideas bubbling like water in a kettle,
fascinating analyses,
just simply wrapping myself up in thinking,
trying to do the right thing and seldom succeeding,
laughing at myself sometimes,
my ability to waste time, though no moment,
living my laughter joys and sobbing sorrows beyond the brim,
and what little wiggly germ or decadent disease would not be daunted by that!

Owl

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2013-10-02 09:41 PM

nice flow of thoughts from the heart...James

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2013-10-03 01:20 AM

Thank you very much, James.

Owl

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