Mind-Body-Spirit, Subject to Time and Consequence(s)
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A wise woman, my mother. She died 25+ years ago, but I probably listen n to her more now than I ever did. I could be a naughty child (who isn’t?) at which times she would teach as well as scold. She once pointed out that almost everything we say has consequences, for better or worse, for ourselves and/or others; the latter, especially, we may never be made aware of...
All the more reason, I eventually understood, to think before we do something, or don’t do it as the case may be...
Easier said than done, of course, yours truly no less guilty than anyone else of forgetting to look before we leap and risk feeding this or that cliché its potential for truism.
MIND-BODY-SPIRIT, SUBJECT TO TIME AND CONSEQUENCE(S)
Surely,
the tide,
as
surely life’s sweet dreams saving us
from
ourselves and each other for offering
alternatives?
I
see your face
in
a brave moon, straining to shine on,
but
in vain as needs must it, too, take its cue
from
Apollo
as
surely as high hopes of fame, fortune
superseded
by life-images of lovers kept busy
building
bridge
They
laughed us
off
the planet, yet we’d take it on the chin,
find
a white horse to help us find our way back,
time
and again
We
rode to hell
and
back, you and I, joining Earth Mother
in
races against the clock, win some, lose some,
no
going back
Yes,
we fell prey
to
a collective giving, taking, having to settle
for
less than we bargained for, our personal space
a
saving grace
Now,
a sure tide’s
surfing
me still (always will), moving me on
to
that one-and-only shore proving longer than life
for
being loved
[NB: This poem has its origins in an earlier poem, Surfing,
that appears in my first collection, Love and Human Remains, Assembly
Books, 2000 (see also Gay blog, March, 2011); it had already
appeared in several poetry journals and worked well enough at the time, but 20+
years on, subsequent changes in form and content defy my referring to it as simply a revision.] RNT
Labels: consequences, human nature, life forces, love, mind-body-spirit, mixed feelings, past-present-future, personal space, poetry, positive thinking, posthumous consciousness, remembrance, self-awareness, time
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