Life is too short for a love that lasts so long

Posted by Gerry on April 17th, 2013

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This is a very good thing.
Health and someone to share it with
Lack of health and someone to share it with
Life is too short for a love that lasts so long
Love, and my dear loved one, show the eternal truths
This is a very good thing.
Health or no health
Happiness or no happiness
Life and no life
These are each our being in a moment of eternal truth
This too is a very good thing
Health is, until it is taken for granted,
But never again
The foibles of our lives are learned in these moments of no health
Love, and my dear loved one, show the eternal truths
This is a very good thing.
The blessing is not only the health, it is the love and connections with the loved ones
Life is too short for a love that lasts so long
This is a good thing in its way, in its connection, on this day.

 

This moment is a place we’ve never been before.

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Empathy

Posted by Gerry on April 13th, 2013

[inspired by “The Power of Kindness” by Piero Ferrucci, 2006, Penguin Group ]

 

Enter resonance
All relationships are now
Empathic presence

or

Present empathy
Intertwined us together
As a sacred gift
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Empathy requires
Unconditional regard
For the one person
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Bodega Bay

Posted by Gerry on April 13th, 2013

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A bird on a rock
Green ice plant purple flowers
Bay waters flowing
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You would think I would
have run out of tears by now
Fog rolls out to sea
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A black bird flying
landing among pink flowers
Then bathing nearby
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Too many things have happened

Posted by Gerry on April 13th, 2013

It’s Monday again
Like an ant walking in line
I pick up my load
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She wakes in the night
Ignore the stupid machine!
And go back to sleep
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Angel turns her back
How long will it take to move
Past sorry to something?
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I am an optimist and I lived my life in joy
Too many things have happened to me and the ones I love
For me to worry about any one thing
with a greater perspective or trauma
than its place in the wholeness of my life
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Orion Poems

Posted by Gerry on April 5th, 2013

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Orion running
Perpetually as light
In the morning sky
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Orion arise
Beloved in the night skies
Running running on
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Standing on a different
Part of the planet
Looking at a different
Part of the sky.
Moving through each day
Step by step and breathe by breathe
Learning what there is to learn
By listening and not judging
Passing up the opportunity to be right
Taking the opportunities in being present.
Standing alone with others
Having an openness that could have been lost
Watching the passing seasons
As the stars rearrange themselves
Orion passes from view
as strength sometimes hides
The constellation reappears
But never changed
Or did it grow stronger?
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In the winter sky
Beyond frigid wisps of clouds
Orion passes
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Orion fell out
Of the sky and scorpion
Usurped selfishly
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Orion runner
Flies through life across the sky
Like it all matters
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Orion’s right knee
Gave out in the late winter
Just as snow melted
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Orion places me on the planet
But the planet moves continuously
But I can’t change
Change is so hard for each person
We are what we were
We became what we were meant to be
We were meant to be what we tried to be
And what our stumbled path led us into
Change, space, place, and self
Being now, living now, listening now
How?
I can’t express myself except sideways
Through poetry which no one reads or cares about
Listening being wondering
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Orion returns
In September ready to
Wrest kindness from wrath
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At noon the sun will
Pass before Orion’s belt
On its day’s journey
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Orion rising
Sideval situation
Betelgeuse and Bellatrix
Above Rigel Alnilam Alnitak and Mintaka
Where is Saiph?
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Blazing shooting star
Under Orion’s right foot
Lights the hunter’s way
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Always Orion
Running across the night sky
Orion always
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The sky does not change
Like the earthly dwellers do
Orion still runs
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Orion at dawn
Moving across a dark sky
Lifts my lonely heart
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Orion does the
Same thing every day, running
Why can’t I do that?
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