Bound to Struggle

2010-02-07

in Poetry

Bound to strug­gle as we nav­i­gate
these inter­per­sonal waters,
two beings ever separate.

Bound to strug­gle as I nav­i­gate
this world, out­side it, yet con­tained
fully within as well.

Bound to strug­gle as he mas­ters a new task,
the con­scious mind does poorly
what the sub­con­scious will do
with ease once the con­scious mind
is finished.

Bound to strug­gle as they all learn
the steps to this dance and that,
an unend­ing chore­og­ra­phy of us and all.

Bound to strug­gle.
Bound to struggle.

Then to be done with strug­gle
and rest easy for a time,
’til…

Bound to struggle.

Word Counts — Today: 0 | Feb­ru­ary: 0 | 2010: 930

Tagged as: change, community, life, relationship, struggle

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Hell’s Meal

2010-02-06

in Poetry

Rage
Sub­sumed just below the skin
Leaks out in dribs and drabs

Screams against the traffic

Clenched at unre­li­able friends

Real­ity grates
Tears away
Leaves bro­ken ripped and torn

And with each light brush
Bits or raw flesh
Fall free

Food to sea­son Hell’s meal

Word Counts — Today: 0 | Feb­ru­ary: 0 | 2010: 930

Tagged as: life, pain, relationship

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Managementese

2010-02-05 Poetry

“Do this.”
All the words say.
Then
A bunch of words seem­ingly intended to expli­cate
“Do this.”
But that in fact mean
“Do the other thing.”
Word Counts — Today: 0 | Feb­ru­ary: 0 | 2010: 930

Tagged as: business, confusion, direction, management, selection

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There/Not There

2010-02-04 Poetry

Halfway may be far worse Than none of the way at all.
Some­times it is a binary choice. Here or there. There or here.
I don’t want to be Schrödinger’s cat.
Word Counts — Today: 0 | Feb­ru­ary: 0 | 2010: 930

Tagged as: being, change, experience, identity, journey, philosophy

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The Business

2010-02-03 Poetry

The busi­ness dreams of, yearns for. Truly wants, and needs, cre­ativ­ity. Not know­ing it itself, not being the source. It isn’t sure when it sees it. It fears the risk and so rarely takes the risk.
And why? Are the con­se­quences so great?
So fear­ing the risk, they do not take the risk.
Instead, they fol­low each other like sheep. They […]

Tagged as: business, creativity, fear, hollywood

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Quotes

2010-02-02 Commentary

Famous Put­downs

I feel so mis­er­able with­out you; it’s almost like hav­ing you here. — Stephen Bishop
He has all the virtues I dis­like and none of the vices I admire. — Winston Churchill
A mod­est lit­tle per­son, with much to be mod­est about. — Winston Churchill
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obit­u­ar­ies with great pleasure. — Clarence Dar­row
He has never been known to use […]

Tagged as: humor, quote

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P/N Without E

2010-02-01 Poetry

I am just like you.I am very dif­fer­ent from you.
I walked through all the same doors of devel­op­ment as you.I arrived at them at nearly the same time as you.My pass­ing through them had most of the char­ac­ter­is­tics of your pass­ing through them too.
Still where we have arrived isn’t the same.Mine is uniquely my own.Yours is uniquely […]

Tagged as: community, existence, philosophy

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A Fog

2010-01-31 Poetry

A fog lay over us all for some few days now too In and out the sound breathes The day and the night dressed in the mist
I wear it about me like a cloak
From here upon the hill’s top I can watch it waft in one win­dow and out the other
Joy­ously it is weather North­west style
Being the child of the […]

Tagged as: fog, salish sea, sound, weather

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Consultancy

2010-01-30 Professional

Con­sul­tancy
An arrange­ment where a per­son or orga­ni­za­tion is engaged:
to give expert analy­sis and advice which facil­i­tates decision-making;
to do a spe­cific, one-off task or set of tasks; and
to do a task involv­ing skills or per­spec­tives which would not nor­mally be expected to be found within the orga­ni­za­tion seek­ing the consultation.

Word Counts — Today: 0 | Jan­u­ary: 930 | 2010: 930

Tagged as: definition

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A Memory of Summer

2010-01-29 Poetry

Sun­set and open sky from this hill­top home.
Red, gray, blue, pink.
Sound and silences scent of life and sum­mer.
Defined qual­ity of sight in these
moments before
the end of twi­light.
Word Counts — Today: 0 | Jan­u­ary: 930 | 2010: 930

Tagged as: being, experience, home, quiet

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Always On

2010-01-28 Poetry

Swim, float, sink and breathe water, evolve, eve love.
Save and cast into the pool of what needs not to be saved.
Are and Am!
We wor­ship at the altar of impa­tience and patience of our own trans­for­ma­tion from what we were to what we will be.
Word Counts — Today: 0 | Jan­u­ary: 930 | 2010: 930

Tagged as: being, change, existence, experience, identity, place

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I Left

2010-01-27 Poetry

I cameinto a ghost town­none pre­sen­tall absent
AloneI looked aboutand left.
Word Counts — Today: 0 | Jan­u­ary: 930 | 2010: 930

Tagged as: journey, quiet, relationship, story

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After Shocks

2010-01-26 Poetry

The blaze in the night sky was gone, faded to sparkless­ness. We were not ready. We needed more of the full light, our jour­ney incom­plete, the path tor­tur­ous.
We made our sac­ri­fices. In the end, we could not per­suade and it faded com­pletely from our sky.
Many were lost on that jour­ney.
Our lead­ers over­turned and sent away by […]

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Half-Baked

2010-01-25 Poetry

Through eyes and ears it all falls in
There to stor­age in mat­ter gray.
How long it rests there,
How the soup is made,

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A Wonder, Full Blue

2010-01-24 Poetry

On these days, when the sun is out yet the clouds are too, when the air is cool, and the sun is descend­ing toward the point of equinox, while climb­ing toward, or from, mid­day, on these days, at this time, the sound is a won­der­ful blue.

Tagged as: nature

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Seal of Drivel

2010-01-23 Meta

Today, despite the rel­a­tive quiet here, I give myself and this blog, the use­less dri­vel seal of approval.

Tagged as: humor

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Silence (or Useless Noise)

2010-01-12 Commentary

A reflec­tion upon writing.

Tagged as: thought, writers' block, writing

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Breathe

2010-01-12 Poetry

In, I breathe my breath,
Not for me, but for another.
Too young to have learned yet how,
Or old enough to have forgotten,

To find peace in this small act.

Tagged as: breath, breathe, peace

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Why I Can’t Wait Until Tomorrow

2010-01-10 Poetry

At my age
most the women
the ani­mal mind finds
are too young
for more than
an hour or so
of brief adventure.

At my age

Tagged as: age, anticipation, experience, relationship, tomorrow, wisdom

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Hide and Seek

2010-01-10 Poetry

For a time,
I was the seeker. Then,
For a moment,
I was the finder. Now,
I have become the hider,
So you may have your turn as seeker.

Tagged as: existence, identity

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