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Tag: Poems

  • gruntled & grizzled

    Gruntled employees
    Product of bureaucracy
    and grizzled veterans

  • patience reflected – Poems about CPS

    One part of the job
    Families in crisis now
    Healing through the team
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/26/07

    On supervising other people

    Guidance comes when it
    Is given through listening
    To your direction
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/26/07
    I learn things really
    fast because days grow shorter
    patience reflected
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/25/08
    I have determined
    All that arises passes away
    I have determined that
    I know nothing

    It is easy to determine
    What time it is. It is always now.
    Now I have everything

    Attention here and now
    Compassion emerges when sadness merges with joy
    Only those who have transcended the world can make a better world
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/05/08
    When we start with pain
    where do we go from here?
    If children have been hurt and their parents are filled with guilt and fear,
    where do we go from here?
    Stories of events are just that – stories.
    The events that transpired
    are known to the people who were present.
    Yet even though they saw and heard and felt the moment
    they are only able to tell the story from their own limited perspective.
    The role of anyone who would intervene
    in the lives of the troubled
    is to listen and be present
    to receive what is shared.
    The role is to give comfort and acknowledgement.
    The role is to listen.
    To listen carefully and with skill.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/17/08

  • Tattoos

    Memories of you
    Fade like tattoos on the soul
    Vague yet permanent

  • An optimistic fatalist

    An optimistic
    Fatalist saw the outcome
    Coming and he smiled

  • To be honored as a poet is the point

    An identity
    Changing, as the point is, to
    Become a poet
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    Meditate on the
    Fabulous new beginning
    Of every new day
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/18/11

    She is way past woos
    She’s tough and ready for life
    No problem too big.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/20/11

    Rocks stacked-25
    Stacking rocks is like
    Haiku – it keeps happening
    And stands here waiting.
    Rocks stacked-12
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/21/11

    Rusting and tarnish
    Of everyday life give way
    To shining spirit
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/26/11

    Do it your own way.
    Being a bucket of quirks
    Is the human way.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/27/11

    “Fern was up at daylight trying to rid the world of injustice.”
    E.B. White
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    Winds of change blowing
    The seasons inevitably
    To a new era
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/30/11

    “Anyone can be cool but it takes practice to be awesome”, said Patrick
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/05/11

    All that is left is
    A new kind of normal that
    Needs just miracles
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/09/11

    Summer's end
    Hummingbird zipping
    Back and forth just wondering
    Where summer has gone
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/21/11

  • Circles turning circles

    Setting off to stick
    My hand into the dragon’s
    Mouth. Rescuing again
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/04/11

    The forests of San Francisco

    When souls escape from Purgatory
    they drift on a heavenly wind
    No thoughts
    No fears
    No regrets

    When souls move on their way
    A fog descends on life
    The joys and sorrows
    Become as thoughts
    Forgotten in a dream

    When souls rejoin creation
    A circle is reformed
    Fulfilling some lost plan
    For being, just being,
    In an unknown land
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/09/11

    Another day of war
    Here in silence are eight more
    Faces of the lost.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/02/11

    Circles turning circles
    Google plus
    Or just a bicycle?
    (not a haiku but just as funny)
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/02/11

    Todd Road west 072511-02

    Misty dawn silence
    Harbinger of mystery
    Being discovered
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/13/11

    Today began well
    Don’t worry about me I’m
    Perfectly good now
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/13/11

    “People want to believe in heroes and villains, especially when they are frightened. It’s less taxing than the truth.”

    “Nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.”

    La Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
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    The rhododendrons
    Don’t grow in any desert
    But rosemary does.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/14/11

    Two twenty two is
    Not half of four forty four
    Two hours twelve minutes
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/16/11

  • Accidental voice

    Accidental voice
    Random call from nice stranger
    Redwood Valley man
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    Uh huh. Huh? What’s huh?
    Just a mispronounced mumble
    Huh? Yea, right, uh huh.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/29/11

    Turtle in the road
    Traveler across the land
    Arrive in due time
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/30/11

    “Hard times aren’t going to rule my mind.”

    Gillian Welch
    <> <> <> <> <> <> <> > 07/30/11

    I’m look for high ground for building
    Not Russian River bottoms and low lands that flood with ease.
    High ground on rock is where I am.

    (Inspired by Gillian Welch)
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/30/11

    Now that he is exiled from every place on earth except a desert wilderness he declares a passion for cactus.

    From La Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
    <> <> <> <> <> <> <> > 08/01/01

    For each one who knows
    The mystery is simple
    Not so much for me.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 08/01/11

  • Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

    Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood was a book I found while I was looking for something else. It took me six (6) years to read “Letters” the first time. I was convinced that some deep answers lay in the pages. It did hold some revelations which emerged gradually.

    Since I’m reading it this time with notebook nearby I will try to pass along some of the shiny jewels.
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    At our full stature
    We show the joyful spirit
    Of a tender God.
    #lsb
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/21/11

    Open to the Lord
    Today action through waiting
    Be the instrument
    #lsb
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/24/11

    As people who want
    True joy we must have faith and
    Seek confident joy
    #lsb
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/25/11

    The pearl of great price
    This is what you are here for
    Find it now and live
    #lsb
    [For me the “pearl of great price” is the realization that the Creator is within each person and the goal of personhood is to humbly be a channel for the Creator’s action in the world without resisting. See also an earlier view.]
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    Within me in the quietness beyond silence is the assurance of immortal life and the potentiality of peace here and now.
    #lsb page 11
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    I know that as I live this life it is but an echo as compared to the life within: Eternal, immortal, omniscient.
    #lsb page 11
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    Know with confidence that gentleness within is your strength.
    # lsb page 12
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    The very quietness of goodness is undramatic and therefore too often unseen.
    # lsb page 12
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    Beneath the obscure darkness of wisest silence, the hidden jewel.
    Silence beyond silence is the silence He presses through. (Wait upon it and in it.)

    #Lsb
    <> <> <> <> <> <> <> 08/13/11

    The next installment is here.

  • Change is a struggle to become

    Hot summer days bring
    Creosote memories of
    Shimmering desert
    Desert in Cathedral City south of I - 10 Freeway
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/21/11
    about Carolyn L.

    Another day in life
    Making things better giving
    Advise from afar
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/20/11

    Summer wisps of smoke
    Portend the blaze of dry grass
    Like thoughts lost to wind
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    Brisk morning breezes
    Blow on the back of my neck
    Chilly but alive
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/24/11

    Change is not a choice
    Change is a struggle to become
    Something different
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/25/11
    Orion returns
    In September ready to
    Wrest kindness from wrath
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/26/11
    Loriel makeup
    Remover, drumsticks, beer. Oops
    Shopping not haiku
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/27/11
    In the absence of evidence, convenient theories rush in.

    C.J. Chivers on Fresh Air

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/27/11

  • When the heart is full

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    Desert memory
    The hawk is on the hammock
    Family legend
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    Summer in the north
    We drove home in drizzly fog
    Outside like inside
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    When the heart is full
    Can’t take more input without
    Putting out something
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    Above the desert
    Rise over the forest line
    Breathe the mountain air

    Based on Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood #lsb
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/16/11