Homing in on a Brave New World

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If learning is a rites of passage, the foundations of learning must lie with love or why do any of us make the journey in the first place…? 

Love is the greater of all human life forces, whoever and wherever we are in the world, regardless of any socio-cultural-religious and, yes, sexual persuasion, not least because it does not discriminate but takes us as it finds us, no holds barred.

It takes various shapes and forms, of course, love; places and aspects of the natural world will often feed us lovely memories, all the more so, though, if they include loved ones and/or close friends who share them also.

HOMING IN ON A BRAVE NEW WORLD

Once upon a time

in the sunshine, fickle world

spinning me round

till a mist closing in on me

where mistakes

and regrets come to haunt

as they always have, and I dare say

always will…

Oh, but hastily passing them by,

my world and I

The mist begins to clear,

and instead of taunts,

I can hear sweet birdsong

in summer air,

singing love songs, reciting poems

about kinder

as well as darker aspects

of humanity…

Oh, but hastily passing them by,

my world and I

Music, still tugging  

at heartstrings,

inspiring we nature lovers

everywhere

to let open mind and spirit take us

by the hand

as a child to its elders bound,

asking questions…

Oh, but hastily passing them by,

my world and I

Words, lightly hovering

on each ear

like birds in mid-flight before

journeying on

(and who knows why or where?);

sense and sensibility

converging from the start

on the human heart

Oh, but hastily passing them by,

my world and I

Love, invading the senses

like sunshine,

lighting up shadowy corners

of the self,

left inarticulate and ineffective

by inexperience,

ready to accept responsibility

for a new maturity

Copyright R. N. Taber 2015