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SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN

THERE IS NO MISTER RIGHT OR WRONG

BUT SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN

YOU MAY COME ACROSS SOMEONE

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

Author's Notes/Comments: 

WATCHING LITTLE WOMEN AND A LINE POPPED OUT AT ME SOMETHING LIKE   YOU DON'T NEED MANY SUITORS YOU ONLY NEED ONE IF HE'S THE RIGHT ONE....AND I GOT TO THINKING HOW WOULD YOU KNOW IF IT WAS THE RIGHT ONE OR THE WRONG ONE...MY GUESS WOULD BE MOST WOULD FALL SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN...

TO KEEP OUR DIGNITY

WHY IS IT SOME FALL IN LOVE

SO VERY EASILY

WHILE OTHERS KEEP UP THEIR GUARD

PREFERRING TO BE FREE

WHY IS IT WE TRY SO HARD

TO KEEP OUR DIGNITY

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I THINK THE TITLE AND LAST LINE ONE IN THE SAME  ANSWERS THAT QUESTION...

HOW RELATIVE TRUTH IS

I WAS SHOCKED TO HEAR

HOW RELATIVE TRUTH IS

WHEN IT ONCE WAS CLEAR

THINGS WERE TRUE OR FALSE

WHEN WHAT WE BELIEVE IS TRUE

IS TRUE FOR ME OR YOU

AND IT'S OFTEN NOT THE SAME

SO IT'S HARDER TO PROCLAIM

THE SIMPLE TRUTH IS
THERE IS NO SIMPLE TRUTH
Author's Notes/Comments: 

THE SIMPLE TRUTH IS THERE IS NO SIMPLE TRUTH CAME AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT. I MEAN  YA THERE ARE SOME SIMPLE TRUTHS OUT THERE THAT ARE TRUE FOR EVERYONE  BUT I AM TALKING ON A DEEPER LEVEL I GUESS...A LOT OF IT INVOLVES INTERPRETATION OF FACTS AS YOU SEE THEM...IT'S FUNNY I WAS THINKING OF AN EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE TRUTH LIKE THE SKY IS UP BUT IF YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT...THE EARTH IS A PLANET ROTATING IN SPACE AND WE ARE HELD IN PLACE BY GRAVITY SO SOMETIMES UP IS DOWN AND DOWN IS UP AND  COULD BE SIDEWAYS EVEN...I REMEMBER WRITING A POEM A LONG TIME AGO THAT HAD A LINE IT IT...UP IS DOWN AND DOWN IS UP THANKS TO THE FORCE OF GRAVITY...I HAVE OFTEN PONDERED THAT...OR MAYBE SINCE THE SKY IS PART OF SPACE WHERE THERE IS NO UP OR DOWN REALLY....IT GETS CONFUSING IF YOU OVER THINK IT...SO IT IS RELATIVE TO OUR OBSERVATION OF IT BEING ABOVE US THAT THE SKY IS UP...OR THE SKY IS BLUE...I FORGET IF THAT IS AN ILLUSION OR LAKES OR OCEANS OR BODIES OF WATER APPEAR TO BE BLUE BUT THEY JUST REFLECT THE SKY...MAYBE THAT IS IT THE WATER APPEARS BLUE SOMETIMES BUT IT IS ACTUALLY CLEAR AND REFLECTING THE BLUE SKY...SO MAYBE THE SKY IS BLUE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE TRUTH THAT EVERYONE BELIEVES TO BE TRUE...OR JUST SEEMS TO BE AN OBVIOUS TRUTH...

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OPEN YOUR MIND

OPEN YOUR MIND

AND YOU WILL FIND

SO MANY WAYS

TO UNWIND

Author's Notes/Comments: 

LISTENING TO AN ENLIGHTENMENT FEST ON LEARNING STRATEGIES THIS SHORT POEM CAME TO ME...SESSION TWO INTENTION AND FEEDBACK...ITS FREE TO LISTEN TO THIS WEEK. I SHARED IT ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE ON PUBLIC...

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UP TO YOU

ITS YOUR  BODY ITS YOUR CHOICE

SPEAK UP NOW YOU HAVE A VOICE

ITS YOUR LIFE THATS ON THE LINE

MAKE SURE YOU KEEP THIS IN MIND

 

UP TO YOU TO FIGURE OUT

DO SOME RESEARCH CLEAR YOUR DOUBT

DONT BE BRAINWASHED USE YOUR HEAD

UP TO YOU ENOUGHS BEEN SAID

Author's Notes/Comments: 

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

PUT UP A FIGHT

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Silent Fireflies

Folder: 
Quiet

 

The stars' silent light

winking through the night

Fireflies moving stars

Soundless is their light

as are the best teachers

whose auras without words

grant gifts of insight

Stella

Folder: 
Just For Fun

Like a star shining above

So you see the earth unlike others

A special insight into humanity

A breath of fresh air to poetry

 

Should a thought cross your path

Like a comet in the ether

You set it fully ablaze

With your fiery pen and pad

Mirror

Folder: 
2015

 

 

Sunny spacious green pasture

Cattle graze, downward gaze

 

Bound by firm barbed fences

A rancher ready to cash in

 

Another gaze at the chattel

As one turns to look at me

 

Kindred faces of captivity






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Happy Birthday on June 2nd (WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT)

 

                                 Happy Birthday on June 2nd

 

Happy Birthday!

 

Some escape some door to open

 

And today is your first day where you left my heart completely broken

 

I’m sitting here peering out the window thinking what was it all for

 

Every noise I hear, I think you are at the front door.

 

Happy Birthday my ex-love!

 

The way you treated me I truly didn’t deserve.

 

While I feel tortured you seem to remain completely unnerved

 

And while you’re in bliss and enjoying the revelry

 

My mind is stuck in the past, enjoying the reverie

 

Pleasure came easy to me but it was harder to please you

 

Sex was all too familiar to you when you had nothing else to do

 

But you will soon have to walk back over this same bridge again

 

Until that day, happy birthday on June 2nd

 

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