Waking Up to the Power of Positive Thinking
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Now, who hasn't despaired now and then of even getting up in the morning?
People sometimes tell me that they have given up on love. I tell them, never even think about it.. Love can happen along just when you least expect it. Besides, as I’ve pointed out many times on the blogs, love expresses itself in many shapes and forms; it doesn’t have to be sexual. Love between lovers is special, yes, but then any love is special; for family, friends, pets, even places.
Give up on love and we might as well not bother to get up in the morning, for all life is worth without love in it. We just have to see what’s on offer and GO for it. Take me, for example. On days when I feel down and there’s no one around to talk things through with (or I may not feel like talking to anyone anyway) I’ll most likely take myself off to be by the sea for the day, often Brighton (Sussex) because I love everything about the place and always feel so much better for going there.
Oh, and as regular readers will know, just because I am not religious and don’t accept the God as portrayed by various religions, doesn’t mean I'm not receptive to succour from a sense of spirituality. Only, I get it from nature, not religion.
This poem is a (yes, another) villanelle
WAKING UP TO THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING
No heart beating in vain
under anaesthetising darkness
at a new dawn
Left wondering when
(if ever) its turn for happiness…?
No heart beating in vain
Will sleep’s half-open
portals close on or let in distress
at a new dawn?
If dreams bring pain
where life and death paths cross…
no heart beating in vain
Late invitation
to troubled souls seeking redress
at a new dawn
Where light bursting in,
nature filling us with its life-force,
no heart beating in vain
at a new dawn
Copyright R. N. Taber 2005; 2015
[Note: Revised (2015) from an earlier version that appears under the title 'Heartbeat' in A Feeling for the Quickness of Time by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2005.]
Please remember that my blogs do not accept comments, but I always reply to emails. Some readers have said they have problems using AOL; in which case try taberroger@yahoo.com. I look forward to hearing from you.
Now, who hasn't despaired now and then of even getting up in the morning?
People sometimes tell me that they have given up on love. I tell them, never even think about it.. Love can happen along just when you least expect it. Besides, as I’ve pointed out many times on the blogs, love expresses itself in many shapes and forms; it doesn’t have to be sexual. Love between lovers is special, yes, but then any love is special; for family, friends, pets, even places.
Give up on love and we might as well not bother to get up in the morning, for all life is worth without love in it. We just have to see what’s on offer and GO for it. Take me, for example. On days when I feel down and there’s no one around to talk things through with (or I may not feel like talking to anyone anyway) I’ll most likely take myself off to be by the sea for the day, often Brighton (Sussex) because I love everything about the place and always feel so much better for going there.
Oh, and as regular readers will know, just because I am not religious and don’t accept the God as portrayed by various religions, doesn’t mean I'm not receptive to succour from a sense of spirituality. Only, I get it from nature, not religion.
This poem is a (yes, another) villanelle
WAKING UP TO THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING
No heart beating in vain
under anaesthetising darkness
at a new dawn
Left wondering when
(if ever) its turn for happiness…?
No heart beating in vain
Will sleep’s half-open
portals close on or let in distress
at a new dawn?
If dreams bring pain
where life and death paths cross…
no heart beating in vain
Late invitation
to troubled souls seeking redress
at a new dawn
Where light bursting in,
nature filling us with its life-force,
no heart beating in vain
at a new dawn
Copyright R. N. Taber 2005; 2015
[Note: Revised (2015) from an earlier version that appears under the title 'Heartbeat' in A Feeling for the Quickness of Time by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2005.]
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