Home Sown
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“In any moment in time, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
After two years of having to cope
with the stresses imposed on us all by the ever=present (but hopefully
decreasing) threat of Covid-19 many of us are on a short fuse; frustration, anger,
and confusion just three of the triggers to a flame that could see any one of
us light the darn fuse any time...
Somehow, we need to bear in mind that
where there are negatives, there are invariably positives, even if the latter
appear to be in short supply in any Here-a kinder future beckons us all as
mind-body-spirit knows only too well as it encourages us to focus.
Focus but a blur? We can do a lot
worse than take our cue from Earth Mother, promising any winter of the human
heart yet more of the joys of spring... all in good time, rarely just when we
need them most, although a promise is a promise, a lifeline in any crisis.
Oh, and no, this isn’t just a poet imposing the
gloss of pretty rhetoric on hard times, but the voce of personal experience.
Testing times, indeed, certain darker life forces, but Mind-Body-Spirit can and
will overcome them; we but need to focus on and believe in the power of
positive thinking to see us through to happier times.
Yes, dear readers, I draw yet again
on the old adage ‘Better late than never...”; trite, indeed, it may well sound,
but so true...
HOME SOWN
One sunny wintry day,
messaging a not-too-distant coming
of another spring...
we’d take stroll, just you and I,
in leafless woods
where home birds would be singing
in its trees, a hint of buddings here and there
alleviating human despair
A long winter, it had been,
dragging us, protesting loud and clear,
to abyss, after abyss,
free-fall, but a (very) near miss,
leaning on each other,
holding hands, not least to get the better
of any doubts, nurture hopes, treating any fear
with tender loving care...
Apollo, always smiling through
the troubles of world and personal space,
messaging the hope
of kinder days yet, rescuing us
not least from the worst
of ourselves, giving misty-eyed hearts
cause to open wide, let in the world – and focus;
the rest, down to us...
In winter, be sure that any silver linings to be seen
are home sown...
Copyright R. N. Taber 2022
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