It is truly a gift given
To render to written word
Thoughts held by the Mind;
For those whom give consideration
And, to their Mind, now to reside.
No favor of truth to wisdom
Is the promise given by these words;
Only that consciousness has been risen
And, choice to their discernment,
By them, others to potentially learn.
Exiting a life-period humorously referenced a `sobaticle’, to embark the next and definitely, last phase of a life journey; this reflection inspired the following:
Life Remaining
Riding the crest of happiness’ wave
Washed ashore from a sea of self-inflicted turbulence
Rendered to a promise land of bliss and reward
Buttressed by the strength of goodness to achieve.
Reclusive solitude transformed to energy gain
Yielding abundance to new resource expenditure
Toward dreams’ formative realization
Resilient to imposed limitations to confidence.
Surrounded and imbued by echoes to a past
Filtered remnants of experienced passage of time
Reflections of the best of life moments lived
To render reclamation of emotional elation.
What promise this remaining life will favor
Is given only to limitations of the Mind to achieve
For the binds of restriction are forever torn
Anchored in the truth this realization is believed.
Watching current, daily News reports on the flooding that has inundated parts of Alberta Canada, parts of Europe inspired the writing of the following poem:
Climate Changed?
The ferocity of the storm brewed
The sky stirring ever darker, we knew
The deluge of rain and ice pellets to fall
Will leave their mark of hardship for all
The minutes seem to pass like hours
Finally thunderous clouds let loose their showers
Each droplet falling to hit its target with a crushing thud
The ground saturated becoming wet beyond mud
The speeding winds’ howling sounded eerily of train whistles
Branches from fallen trees flying like guided missiles
The horrendous damage this vile weather will ultimately inflict
Once the storm finally over, a ruinous sight left to make one sick
Many voicing the claim severe climate-change is Man-made
Does little to remedy the loss of all that a Life has saved
What this growing global weather phaenomenon does enlist
Is for humanity to rethink its presence if on Earth, it wishes to exist
Upon viewing the linked video detailing the actions of the NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowdon, I was inspired to compose the following poem in response to the interviewee’s closing statment.
`Turnkey Tyranny’
What is the price willingly paid
When freedom and liberty is stolen away?
By forces that impose their sanctioned goals,
Regardless of the broader public price toll.
Incipient, insidious government surveillance policy
Contrived to impede malicious terrorist atrocity
Purchased by acquiescent public consent
Propagandized as injury or loss to life, to prevent
As new generations become calloused to the intrusion
The greater will be `Big Brother’ policy infusion
Global society made impotent through complacency
To potential One World Government’s `turnkey tyranny’.
The start to this new chapter of life,
Fostered through six years of Self-exploration;
Fraught with anguish, anxiety and strife,
Is reaping reward through hope and determination,
To finally see life through a brighter, more fulfilling light.
Birth-passage to this prospective, last phase to this life-journey,
Exerted a toll of deep darkness to be endured,
A conscious test of willingness to be proven worthy,
Of elimination of all burden of hardship; to be finally cured,
By timely power of provenience seemingly unearthly.
What resource of benefit this next era shall yield
Remains unlimited but by self-imposed restriction,
Rending a chance for betterment with vigor and zeal,
To blot-out avenues of negativity and dereliction,
Yielding a positiveness to life, others are able to feel.
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