Freedom & Self

Helping others
Without expected reward
Is true freedom from self bondage.
09.30.14

Citizens & Corruption

When there is no doubt
That one, hiding behind the law
Is, with a clear conscience, corrupt to the core
Honorable citizens must unite to stomp that corruption.
09.29.14

Friendships & Trivia

Friendships are trivial
When broken by trivia
And are grand when trivia
Are never even noticed.
09.28.14

Nature & Politics

Spending personal time
On nature’s diminutive details
Brings more wisdom and joy
Than spending major time
On minor political details.
09.27.14

Primitive & Advanced

Life substantial
Lurks in the melange
Of primitive and advanced;
The advanced flee base to sky
The primitive live and die on base.
09.26.14

Laughter & Seriousness

Those who laugh most
Laugh at themselves first;
Those who laugh least
Take themselves too seriously.
09.26.14

Future & Interest

Since the future is not knowable
Then everyday is an adventure
And that should render
Every living moment
Interesting.
09.24.14

Blame & Empathy

The fact that the older we grow
The more we become aware
That our programmers
Nature and nurture
Cause us to become
What we end up becoming
Leaves us less room for blame
And more room for empathy.
09.23.14

Relish & Moments

To already be where you want to be
To want to be what you already are
Is to cease wasting time, searching
And relish each individual moment
As if it were a lifetime.
09.22.14

Animals & Us

We have a lot to learn from the animals;
They do not choose factions or borders
They do not subdivide and splinter
They do not use weapons or kill for ideas
They are ethical and do not contradict nature.
09.21.14

Planet & Children

Too much happens
To an innocent planet
That has not a defense
Against human pollution;
We would not let the same
Happen to one innocent child
But we would, to all of children.
09.20.14

Power & Waste

Youth and health
Are our only sources of power
And we must exercise these powers
Until time and disease reclaim them;
Wasting away youth and health
Is a cardinal sin against life.
09.19.14

Situation & Attitude

Nothing can defeat
A blithe attitude to life;
Regardless of situation
It is how we perceive it
And how we react to it
That really matters.
09.18.14

Love & Mores

Love violates the social mores;
We cannot choose when to fall in love
Nor can we choose whom to love
But we can choose gratitude
For love’s sublime feelings
That enrich our souls
Regardless of outcome.
09.17.14

Sleep & Youth

Just like the joys and agonies of sleep
Are re-experienced during wakefulness
So are the joys and agonies of youth
Re-experienced during adulthood.
09.16.14

Passions & Life

Passions define life’s four stages:
In youth, passions rule the mind
In maturity, passions and mind are balanced
In wisdom, passions fade and the mind rules
In senility, both mind and passions fade away.
09.14.14

Life & Living

To forge smiles out of tears
And laughs out of frowns
To temper anger with humor
And face fate with cheerfulness
To enjoy life however it comes
Nor wait for matters to recover
Is to honor the gifts of life
With artful living.
09.13.14

Enlightenment & Corruption

On the totem pole of humanity
Love is the crown and hate, the nadir;
With more love comes greater enlightenment
With more hate comes greater corruption;
Societies can measure their progress
By measuring the love and the hate
They engender and propagate.
09.12.14

Terrorism & History

Terrorism is historically short-lived;
It irrupts, disrupts, and then self-destructs
Leaving long-term order and peace to reign in its wake.
Peaceful humanity has always managed to redress
All the scars of terror with beautiful works.
09.11.14

Fitness & Struggle

Fitness is constant struggle
Physical fitness is to remain active
Mental fitness is to remain inquisitive
Emotional fitness is to remain passionate
And spiritual fitness is to remain in awe.
09.10.14

Blessing & Curse

The greatest blessing
Is the ability to love everything;
The greatest curse
Is the inability to love anything;
For whenever love abdicates
Hate fills the vacuum.
09.09.14

Blessing & Curse

The greatest blessing
Is the ability to love everything;
The greatest curse
Is the inability to love anything;
For whenever love abdicates
Hate fills in the vacuum.
09.09.14

Leisure & Art

How we utilize our leisure
Defines our intellectual altitude
Better than our achievements;
We evince our art of living
During leisure activities
More than during work.
09.08.14

Obligations & Enlightenment

Going to obligations
When we don’t fee like it
Sometimes brings our souls
Closer to enlightenment
And farther from bias.
09.07.14.

Young & Old

To think young
One must remember
That everything old
Was once young
And beautiful
And vital.
09.06.14

Dependent & Independent

Some are only happy
If they are independent
And serve a worthy cause;
Others are happy as dependents
Even when they burden society.
09.05.14

Deranged & Harm

No society
Has ever found ways
To reduce the harms caused
By its deranged elements.
09.04.14

MInd & Balance

An active mind
Is its own best entertainment;
A passive mind
Thrives on entertainment by others;
A balanced mind
Entertains itself and loves to be entertained.
09.03.14

Privacy & Isolation

Nurturing a social circle furnishes us with ideas
Which, otherwise, would not occur to us;
The effort to remain socially connected
Is compensated by a rich harvest of notions
And a wealth of emotional chords
That entertain and enlighten
The aloneness of isolation
And the loneliness of privacy.
09.02.14