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themute
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since 2006-05-08

Posts 469
Maryland

0 posted 2006-08-17 10:15 PM

It is a river that I wish to glide in
To be with the ever changing in it’s flowing
And I will not cling to shadows and evils hung on walls
I will cling to nothing here and there or everywhere
There will be only love in me
For the love that I carry is not carried but understood in all I see
Jesters laugh with there jingle jangles
They love to joke and to play their parts as fools
And so without concerns ambitions or desire
I will flow with the current forgetting
Yesterday’s misfortunes business and liars
For they are but heavy on the shoulders
So I will drop them and forget them
And so my mind will be free from the rotting
That the men and women have been given forever

And so this flow will so bear me
It will make me ever changing
Like the bird flying without cares for his dying
I will have no house or job to hold on to
But I will be happy living unsafe with change
I will as the gypsy wander
And in my days I will live them
Unlike those who chose permanence
Like the pool of rotten water
Closed off from the rivers flowing
I will live free as the bird that flies in the wind
He does not think of tomorrow or dwell on the past
Gliding on the wind stream living every second
Dying when death comes
Living while he lives

No life is lived by the preacher
He sits and he prays for his soul he was told
That if he did he would be living forever
In the time before his dusking
When the fear hits fearful hearts the most
To lose what he knows to find the unknown
And make certain that his theories true
Yet he will die in shambles having not lived his life at all

So in time there will be some changing
One-day man will awaken
And see that life’s not meant to be makin'
But meant just to be, to live and see its changin'

I am the two-toed wanderer

[This message has been edited by themute (08-18-2006 12:02 AM).]

SS09
New Member

since 2006-08-17

Posts 1

1 posted 2006-08-17 10:41 PM

Very good peom, i like it alot. My only coment is that a few commas would be good to accentuate the pauses.

themute
Member

since 2006-05-08

Posts 469
Maryland

2 posted 2006-08-17 10:48 PM

i read without pauses; so sorry, but i wont

XOx Uriah xOX
Senior Member

since 2006-02-11

Posts 1403
Virginia

3 posted 2006-08-18 12:43 PM

Ah Another wonderful addition to my "Mute" folder. Thank you for this.
As I read it...the words of another came to mind...

In the pursuit of learning,
every day something is added.
In the pursuit of Tao,
every day something is dropped.
Less and less is done until
one arrives at nonaction [wu wei].
When nothing is done,
nothing is left undone.
The world is won by letting things
take their own course.
If you still have ambitions,
it's out of your reach. [Tao Te Ching 48]

:: bows ::

seraphin
Senior Member

since 2000-09-24

Posts 1004
Michigan

4 posted 2006-08-18 12:41 PM

I do agree with Matt on the comma issue. This flows in a continuous manner. I like this a great deal. Very nicely done.

Sandra

Pilgrimage
Member Elite

since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

5 posted 2006-08-18 12:45 PM

I like the Tao feel of this one. I have decided to do the same. But never did. It's so hard to go with the flow when I'm holding on to the bank with both hands.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

themute
Member

since 2006-05-08

Posts 469
Maryland

6 posted 2006-08-18 05:16 PM

this is krishnamurti not tao, tao is a belife system and i dont have one at all, though im sure krishnamurti was influenced by tao a little.

I am the two-toed wanderer

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