Heard & Seen

911
Can mean nine-one-one
Or nine-eleven;
Languages are two dimensional
The uttered and the written
And meanings vacillate
Between the heard and seen.
10.08.2015

Success & Failure

Before we believe success
We should wait a while
And before we believe failure
We should wait a while;
Time often reverses fortunes
Turning success into failure
And failure into success.
10.07.2015

Ignorance & Hazard

When in conflict
The enlightened debate
And learn from one another,
The unenlightened argue
And cling to their opinions,
The primitive fight
And kill one another;
Ignorance is hazardous.
10.06.2015

Travel & Mind

We can travel with our minds
Travel with the our bodies
Or travel with both;
When traveling with our bodies
Circumstances arrange our travels,
But when traveling with our minds
We rearrange all circumstances;
Glorious are the vistas of imagination.
10.05.2015

Opinions & Errors

Holding our opinions
To take time to reconsider
Reduces faux pas and regrets;
Extemporaneous speech
Is fraught with errors.
10.04.2015

Love & Learning

With study, effort, and observation
We learn most, but not all essentials;
Love, we learn when we are well loved
Kindness, when loved and well treated
Ethics, when loved and well mentored
Generosity, when loved and well fed
Confidence, when loved and trusted;
When love does not provide the base
Our characters turn out distorted.
10.03.2015

Pleasure & Passion

Pleasures that endure
Are passion dependent;
Pleasures without passion
End abruptly upon satiation
Leaving us in somber anticlimax.
10.02.2015