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ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

0 posted 2001-10-23 07:48 AM

      Get ahead every time you're able
       take the finer things from the table.
       Take your gains take your profits
       steal your own cause from those who lost it.
       Run every kind of game you can bleed,
       you'll still have nothing when you leave.

       Put your faih in all your gold cards
       mention them proudly when things go hard.
       Fake your records fake your facts
       take another page from your income tax.
       Score on everything you can get for free
       you'll still have nothing when you leave.

       The sun still shines above the dark clouds
       Birds in the sky all have a nest house.
       Get out and look about from mountain to sea
       there's lies the simple things that can set you free
       cause you'll still have nothing when you leave.

The role of poetry is to utter the un-utterable; to open up
spaces of consciousness and resistance; to language oppressions; to
re-language historie

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2001-10-23 08:46 AM

Exactly! Those with the most toys...still leave empty handed....

Good one, Ethome! Thanks for the kicker!

Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

2 posted 2001-10-23 08:47 AM

Nope....we cant take it with us when we go...

wisdom rhymes E-babes ...

ya know that old saying...

"a fool and his money"
greed makes us our own worst enemy

good to read your poetic ponderings this morn.

This distance has shown how the road remains alone
Now I'm looking in my life ... for a truth that is my own.

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

3 posted 2001-10-23 09:01 AM

Empty handed toys, yes, but I understand the frustration---oh somebody find the scripture for this memory bankrupt soul, but the sun shines on the just AND the unjust....something like that...

and hey, it drives me nuts too...

good to see you m'lovely!

Startime
Member Ascendant

since 2000-10-03

Posts 5918
Canada

4 posted 2001-10-23 09:38 AM

So very true. We give way too much time and attention to gaining things when we could be watching the sunset on the ocean...*sigh* now those kind of memories we take with us and are priceless. Thank you, so much, for sharing this poem, Eric. I love it.

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

Larry C

Member Patricius

since 2001-09-10

Posts 10286
United States

5 posted 2001-10-24 03:11 AM

ethome,
Chuck Swindoll says he's never seen a hurst pulling a Uhaul.
You are so exactly right!

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

6 posted 2001-10-24 03:22 AM

Take time to smell those hayfields, and watch a meandering moose. So true, none of it will travel with you to your final destination, except perhaps memories.

wayoutwalt
Member Elite

since 1999-06-22

Posts 4870
TEXAS (it's all big)

7 posted 2001-10-24 08:13 AM

you can't take it with you

I like the reminder o yuh

Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

8 posted 2001-10-24 08:24 AM

(big hugggssssss) Yes, your beautiful words paint the beautiful simple things of life so extraordinarily! (sigh) It's the rising of the sun, the flight of a butterfly, the song of a sparrow, these and so much more are the real beautiful things of life, and they're everywhere! (smiles) Beautiful, sweet Eric, your words are always such a joy! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Eric, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

Alan
Senior Member

since 2000-09-12

Posts 1499
right next door

9 posted 2001-10-24 08:28 AM

the best things in life are free. This is a wonderfully written reminder. Enjoyed it.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

10 posted 2001-10-24 12:37 PM

But getting TO the sea and mountains isn't free... dern it all. *G*

I like this very much, ethome... wise words written well!

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

11 posted 2001-10-24 03:29 PM

Amen.

Where you been? Wherever, welcome back.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

12 posted 2001-10-24 03:34 PM

Simple pleasures....yup, that's what counts!
Good write, Nancy

~Time has cast a spell on you,
So that you won't ever forget me.~

vandana

Member Patricius

since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

13 posted 2001-10-24 05:41 PM

enjoyed it a lot

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

14 posted 2001-10-24 07:03 PM

Understood and appreciated
Sandra

walker
Member Elite

since 2001-02-11

Posts 2240
Florida

15 posted 2001-10-24 08:23 PM

Yes I agree great poem. We have to live the moment for only God knows what will be next.

Tracey
Member Elite

since 2001-08-29

Posts 2808
where insanity meets breeding

16 posted 2001-10-24 09:15 PM

Much truth in these words. Great write

If she who dies with the most toys wins, then can I have some toy boys please?

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

17 posted 2001-10-25 07:54 AM

I want to thank everyone so much! I'm overwhelmed by all these replies and I wish you all the best!

Eric True

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