Wealth & Nobility

While one’s wealth is measured with money
How it was accumulated marks one’s honesty
How readily it is spent reveals one’s generosity
And what it is spent on defines one’s nobility.
06.30.11

Worth & Joy

Those most successful envy those who are most joyful
And those who are most elaborate and complex
Envy those who have attained simplicity
For a life’s worth is measured with joy
Joy imparted and joy received.
06.29.11

Coincidence & Worship

The history of life in its entirety
And the entire life of every living thing
Are complex series of seeming coincidences
Which must occur in exacting, specific, sequences
Otherwise, life as we know it, would neither exist nor go on.
It is this mysterious order that orchestrates the universe
This harmonic, incomprehensible, miracle we call nature
That awes us and summons our souls to worship.
06.28.11

Myths & Explanations

Humanity’s desperate need to explain the unexplainable
Is humanity’s womb that gives birth to its myths;
Indeed, myths are humanity’s ancient children
To which we cling in spite of science
And all its modern explanations.
06.27.11

Words & Thoughts

Our words unlock unconscious thoughts held hostage in our
brains
For when un-verbalized, these thoughts remain unintelligible
A muddle of blurred, un-expressed, un-formulated mirages.
With language we think and are able to excavate our dormant
thoughts;
Begin a conversation and you’ll discover some inner thoughts
Thoughts that had lain dormant inside your brain for years
Thoughts that surprise and help you understand yourself.
Begin to write and your thoughts will flow like a brook;
They will organize themselves into artful expressions
They will tell you stories you’ve never heard before
And you will find out what your mind is like
And who you are and how you were constituted.
06.26.11

Sex & Lovmaking

The act of sex is natural
And everyone who wishes to
If healthy and young, can do it.
But making love is a musical production
An art form only practiced by lovers
For it takes all the passions of love
To choreograph the exotic dances
Necessary for the lovemaking
And for sustaining the duet
Long after the act ends.
06.25.11

Importance & Nature

If the whole world were to think that you are important
And if you were to believe that you are important
Would that make you important?
Look at us in relationship to our cosmos;
Think how microscopic and ephemeral we are
Think of our frail lives upon our miniscule planet
And remember that our vast, unconcerned universe
Would not even notice if our galaxy, our entire Milky Way
Were to be swallowed by a cosmic black hole and disappear
And then tell Mother Nature how important you think you are.
06.24.11

Life & Death

Life without death
(The grand motivator)
Would not be worth living;
For if birth were to continue
Unchecked by death
Life would become
Eternal punishment.

Let us be grateful to death
For it makes rich our lives
With a sense of urgency
With heated emotions
With achievements
With appreciation
With excitement
With traditions
With mystery
With values
With art
With age
With beliefs
With creativity
With imagination
With what’s noble and elevated
With everything that tethers past to future.

If life were ageless and infinite
There would be no ripening
Time would have no worth
And we would all be prisoners
Swarming, competing, and loveless
Upon a sullied ball that was once called Earth.
06.23.11

Speaking & Breathing

The urge to speak
Can become stronger
Than the urge to breathe;
For it’s easier, at certain times
To have one hold back one’s breath
Than to have one hold back ones words.
06.21.11

History & Coincidence

Whenever one thinks
That one is making history
One thinks like a gullible fool.
No one alone ever makes history;
Only coincidence makes historic figures.
06.20.11

Youth & Wisdom

Without youth
Life would not explode
Spring would never dare
And wisdom would recline, content
Rocking in her chair.
06.19.11

Art & Nationality

Art knows no boarders;
Once it is born, it belongs to everybody
It’s the artist who gets saddled with a nationality
Thus Shakespeare is English but his plays are universal
And Beethoven is German but his music delights all hearts.
06.18.11

Love & Terrorism

It’s easy to love humanity
When all is going well
It’s hard when one is in hell,
That place where the absence of love
Provides fertile soil for terrorism.
06.17.11

Marriage & Love

Marriage is a natural reaction
When love is the catalyst;
Whenever the catalyst is gone
The reaction slows down
And is often abandoned.
06.16.11

Compassion & Gratitude

Compassion begins with the gratitude that stifles blame
The gratitude for having not suffered as much as others
And for having not been pre-wired and pre-programmed
As badly as others.
Wherever we begin and whoever we become
Has more to do with forces from within and without
Forces we have been endowed with or have received
Forces out of our reach and out of our control
For all of us are but the children of coincidence.
06.15.11

Success & Mothers

Success in our minds
Is measured with superlatives
The most popular, the best seller
The possessors of the greatest quantities
The richest, the strongest, the highest paid
The number one, the winner, the Miss or Mr. world;
But no one ever refers to the mothers as successful
The mothers who bore and shaped those successful children
Nor one ever refers to the hard-working poor as successful
Nor to the ordinary folks who are happy & content with life
Nor to the teachers of humanity like Socrates and Christ.
06.14.11

Persecutor & Persecuted

When the persecuted
Become the persecutors
They excel in wielding cruelty
And violating the human rights
Of those who oppose them.
06.13.11

Good & Day

What makes a good day?
Nothing external to one’s self,
Nothing good or bad that happens;
What makes a good day, really good
Is merely that one feels good about the day.
6.12.11

Nature & Homo sapiens

Nature is cruel but indiscriminate and haphazard
Homo sapiens are cruel, calculating, and deliberate.
06.11.11

Passion & Reaction

Every passionate action is but a reaction
Against undesirable conditions
In favor of desirable ones.
06.10.11

Trust & Betrayal

If I trust everyone
I will be betrayed by a few
But if I trust no one
I will betray everybody.
06.09.11

Morals & Ethics

When it is considered moral
To sacrifice ethics for national interests
Nations teach citizens that power is above ethics
And that’s when nations begin their inevitable decline.
06.08.11

Eagerness & Reward

Eagerness
Is directly proportional
To reward.
06.07.11

Crooks & Laws

Crooks are the reason
We have crooked laws
Which punish the innocent.
06.06.11

Arms & Peace

In the arms race
Most barriers are surmountable;
In the race for peace
Most barriers are insurmountable.
06.05.11

Power & Decay

Military power ultimately begets social decay;
What do we gain by conquering others
If we’re going to be conquered by our ills?
06.04.11

Size & Quality

The ideal size
Which promotes the highest quality
Is seldom the biggest size;
Yet still we hold growth
As the main measure of success.
06.03.11

Cars & Personalities

On the highways
Where the personality of the driver
Is perceived through the physiognomy of the vehicle
Cars seem to maintain a personal speed
Which they decline to alter
For another car’s sake.
06.02.11

Peace & Excitement

The reason peace never lasts
Is because it lacks excitement
And youth find it boring.
06.01.11