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Tag Archives: spirituality
Broadsides
I once asked God for a sign needing more than spiritual Burma-Shave cardboard placards stapled to raw, rough pine sticks Ah, but I am not advertising my tag-board always blankly devoid of political hate hackneyed slogans five-ninety-nine pizza specials! buy your … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Introspection, Uncategorized
Tagged answers, belief, career change, faith, food for thought, growing older, introspection, life, life calling, life philosophy, philosophies, poems about questions and answers, poems about working, poetry about jobs, political poetry, questions, questions and answers. questions with no answers, reflections, spirituality
One metmorphisize fits all
Happily-ever-after mythology prefaces every sequel continuing character-driven sagas story arc only tacking an index onto volume one, three, sixteen in a set having read this scene repeatedly life movies annotated script writing, rewriting books they were based on playing déjà … Continue reading
Posted in Introspection, Uncategorized
Tagged food for thought, growing older, introspection, life, love, love poetry, poetic, remembrances, reminiscing, spirituality
Pavement due
Rusted, mangled hubcaps clutter road shoulder, ditches stray, chrome castoffs wildflowers of reckless neglect breakneck speed cratered highways, pilots disdain for flashing, yellow signs by the spadeful, I scoop well-intentioned, tar-coated fill into random potholes indifferent, life is, to the … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophies, Snippets and snapshots, Uncategorized
Tagged food for thought, introspection, philosiphication, self-awareness, spirituality
Recalculating
another turning point crossroads of cliché and same ole what to do which way to turn got here without GPS will navigate as always, following stars gut instinct not infallible co-pilot riding shotgun, no desire to shoot let alone take … Continue reading
Posted in Introspection, Life, Moments, Philosophies, Uncategorized
Tagged food for thought, life philosophy, love, philosiphication, philosophy, poem, poetic, spirituality
Sips
I am a wine cellar unto myself occasionally decanted aged-to-perfection vintage at times acting the vinegar sweet, pungent varietal undertones serious melancholy drunk to forget remembering quite dry an acquired taste not for all people label me state certainly what … Continue reading
Posted in Introspection, Uncategorized
Tagged food for thought, growing older, introspection, life, philosiphication, ponderable, spirituality, wine poem
Dutiful
Following my calling and the call dropped I call back nobody picks up nobody calls back I have left the messages trying to reconnect number no longer in service ‘your recipient hasn’t set up voice mail for this account’ Am … Continue reading
Posted in Introspection, Philosophies, Snippets and snapshots, Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized
Tagged answers, belief, carer change, faith, food for thought, growing older, introspection, life, life calling, life philosophy, philosophies, poems about working, poetry about avocatons, poetry about careers, poetry about jobs, questions, questions and answers. questions with no answers, reflections, spirituality
Resolute residues
Sometimes I ponder my legacy picturesque footprints in beach sand casually, photogenically left behind, impulsively signed with flotsam stick left to the whim of waves, rising tides? Existence as an Etch-A-Sketch frozen in time via cataclysmic event fossilization rendering me … Continue reading
Posted in Introspection, Reflections, Uncategorized
Tagged bequests, faith, food for thought, growing older, introspection, legacies, legacy, life, remnants, self-awareness, spirituality, vestiges, what you’ll leave behind
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Q-and-A
I am aging gracefully as is my faith like the gray replacing the brown in my beard pesky questions have been quietly replaced not with answers but the earned ease that comes with the confidence of blithely ignored uncertainty, There … Continue reading
Playing on
Faded are July’s warmth, summer’s cheers. Supplanted now by the encroaching hints of cooler days, forgotten expectations, procrastinated chores shelved, he can only now muse without dwelling on what won’t be. Could-have-beens and maybes aren’t statistically meaningful; they never really … Continue reading
Pseudo 23
Modern-day Psalmists plying their trade via pithy sayings basic fonts, splashy backdrops portmanteaus of varying interpretation revelations shifting dunes rounded by prevailing winds as arid, accepted gospel lacking lyricism posted for the world by self-anointed prophets claiming persecution, occasionally lapsing … Continue reading →