Gershon Wolf Poet Rhyme

Happy Alongside Sad

Can you be happy and sad
    simultaneously
  Many say you can today
    contemporaneously

  I say, on your wedding day
    attend the funeral of a friend
  That'll surely put your happiness
    to an ignominious end

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Unseeking Seeker November 20, 2022 at 8:22 PM The sublime fragrance of a rose entwined with anguish of a thorn pricking … actually, gw, holding contrasts like this in balance is one of the practices in the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra 112 meditations

Linda Alice Fowler November 20, 2022 at 12:59 PM Oh my...that would be a big piece of evidence. Good one gw! :) laf