Walter T. Ashe Poet Free verse

Choices and Options

"CHOICES AND OPTIONS"

                                                
                                                "SIGHT"
                      One can open the eyes and choose to see
                      One can close the eyes and choose not to see
                      One can open the eyes and choose not to see
                      One can close the eyes and choose to see

                                                "SENSE"
                           One can touch and choose to feel
                           One can feel and choose to touch
                           One can touch and choose not to feel
                           One can feel and choose not to touch

                                               "SOUND"
                           One can listen and choose to hear
                           One can hear and choose to listen
                           One can listen and choose not to hear
                           One can hear and choose not to listen

                                             "HONESTY"
                   One can nod the head yes and choose to mean yes
                   One can nod the head no and choose to mean no
                   One can nod the head yes and choose to mean no
                   One can nod the no and choose to mean yes

                                             "INSIGHT"
                      One can be an inch wide and an inch deep
                      One can be a mile wide and a mile deep
                      One can be an inch wide and a mile deep
                      One can be a mile wide and an inch deep

                                     "TO BE OR NOT TO BE"
                               One can live and be existent
                                One can exist and be living
                      One can merely exist and not know living
                One can know living rather than merely existing



                                        WTA-IV  3/12/2016

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Funom Makama March 13, 2016 at 11:10 AM Epic, wonderful and outstanding. What a great share! Walter T. Ashe March 13, 2016 at 4:49 PM Funom..my utmost appreciation for your words! Heartfelt thank you sent!

Tom Quigley March 12, 2016 at 5:40 PM Awesome! Very thoughtful. Walter T. Ashe March 12, 2016 at 7:21 PM Tom, thank you and these are only a few!!! :-)

Anne-Lise Andresen March 12, 2016 at 12:37 PM - Some hear what they want to hear, and some see what they want to see - a great poem, Walter - hugs // Anne-Lise :) Walter T. Ashe March 12, 2016 at 7:20 PM Anne-Lise, thank you...the choices are as endless as there are people who make them! Thank you again :-) Have the best eve!

CayCay Godwin March 11, 2016 at 7:43 PM Very valid spiritual lessons simply put, simply as in beautiful, to the point - a way for honest, pure truth to reach those who as yet do not see, hear, feel or ... realize. I truly like how you did this - I want so much to add 'One can work to live" / "One can live to work" - not that you didn't cover it, I just think some people would benefit from that thought and I tend to talk a lot when no one can see me ... Bye, now ... CayCay !!! CayCay Godwin March 12, 2016 at 8:12 AM I am honored by your request and will send you a soup mail as soon as I can - must go now, run errands out in the world and then some - so give me time to answer, k? All the best, CayCay Walter T. Ashe March 11, 2016 at 7:55 PM First of all thank you CayCay for your thoughtful words! A request...would you take and add your special insights and further it?...any that you see! And expand it!! Any that you see fit! :-) A request from the heart!

Constance La France March 11, 2016 at 7:23 PM Walter, this is quite wonderful, well done 7 ~ Walter T. Ashe March 11, 2016 at 8:00 PM Broken Wings thank you! I remember thinking once that open eyes no more mean one is awake than closed eyes mean they're asleep! Our eyes are open! Your poems are proof of that! Thank you! :-)

Robert Heemstra March 11, 2016 at 7:13 PM Well written Walter! When I first started reading I was thinking of "hear no evil see no evil..." I forgot what the rest of that was I was told that so much as a child. Walter T. Ashe March 11, 2016 at 8:03 PM Robert, yes it's definitely along those lines! We see and we have much to say! Thank you and Write On... Keep Writing On! :-)