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