Open Poetry #38 |
and the livin is easy |
Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
and the livin is easy sultry sounds from my youth summertime porgy and bess and somehow the world still looked as if I could offer it something positive to offset the negatives and here it is again summertime and the livin is easy because I have a place to live no one is shooting at me my child has food and clean water my birds chirp happy tunes (except when a big bird flies by) but my feet are draggin these days, weary of the treacherous boulders in the pathway and the constant assault of beastly burdens, the weight of the world upon shoulders that only an Atlas could support today I must re-invent myself again, rededicate pebbles of Peace to the pond of Hope, lift my chin from the quagmire and keep my eyes on clear skies, maybe watch the catfish jumpin and try to believe livin is easy |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
"today I must re-invent myself again, rededicate pebbles of Peace to the pond of Hope, lift my chin from the quagmire and keep my eyes on clear skies, maybe watch the catfish jumpin and try to believe livin is easy" I know Kacy...I feel it as well. And, you must also know I am going to have that song, 'Summertime' playin' in my head all day! Love ya lady~ Nancy For it was not into my ear you whispered |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Kacy~ 'rededicate pebbles of Peace to the pond of Hope' I'm here to skip pebbles across that same pond with you~ *Huglets* ~*Marge*~ ~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~ |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
this reminds me of a song that "shoulda" been in Porgy and Bess and this today I must re-invent myself again, rededicate pebbles of Peace to the pond of Hope, lift my chin from the quagmire and keep my eyes on clear skies, maybe watch the catfish jumpin and try to believe livin is easy I don't know if this will help but just in the past two days, I heard a quote, and don't remember who said it or if I read it or heard it somewhere else but it goes like this... "Learn to embrace all the heartaches and pain with love" and at the time we're going thru something, it's difficult to be stable, but afterwards, when you have time to kick your feet up and really evaluate things, it surely makes all the sense in the world love to you |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
thanks ladies and even as I grab my copy of the Art of Happiness, by the Dalai Lama, I have been reading news from MidEast Web: http://www.mideastweb.org/goals.html and a story today from an American student evacuated from Beirut: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/callie-lefevre/evacuation-from-beirut-o_b_25778.html |
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