Blooms that I see today fade the next day.
Green leaves turn yellow. They dwindle and fall.
Fruits that are ripe fruitlessly find decay.
Nature stands alert to an unknown call.
The flora and fauna feel paranoid.
Curiously, creatures here cogitate.
By expirations, nature is annoyed.
Every being confronts the games of fate.
I search for the sense of my existence.
What's the purpose of my life here on earth?
Against aches, I've my innate resistance.
Will there be, after this life, a rebirth?
Where, when all is said and done, will I go?
Like dried leaves, with the wind, will my soul flow?
Categories:
expirations, angst, conflict, confusion, life,
Form: Sonnet
Light lives within lines of explored inquiry
As living light lines inquire exploration
The line of exploration resonates within living light
Living light resonates within line inquiry
As living light lines explore
Within exploration
Living light resonates
Living light explorations resonate
Within
Exploring the line inquires it resonates
It resonates within living light as living light lines inquire exploration
Inquiring it resonates within light
Exploration of the line inquires it resonates within living light.
3-16-22
Categories:
expirations, analogy, deep, metaphor, word
Form: Imagism
I think, and sometimes fear,
we have two ways, maybe more,
to read the four holy gospels,
and any sacred scripture,
and any regeneration/degeneration story
of creative tension,
win/win sweet spot future aspirations
midst win/lose historic raw spots
of past experience.
We can read Earth's inspired articulations
as a book of spiritually correct answers,
removed from complex historical-cultural context
in a move toward fundamentally correct creed development
for moral
and political
and economic
and ecological correctness.
And/or
we can listen for Earth's expirations
and inspirations,
reading and listening to naturally spiritual correcting questions,
embedded in universal historical
and uniting multicultural content
of fundamentally healthy development
for resiliently robust climates
and cultures,
timeless times of spiraling revolutionary win/win
ego/eco-logical balance corrections.
If we too readily approach sacred scripture for morally correct answers,
we are likely to forget
divine purpose seeks better,
more inclusive,
inviting,
transparent,
vulnerable,
courageous and curious health questions.
Categories:
expirations, caregiving, health, integrity, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Our sour cream will soon expire
Going by its expiration date
What happens then, I'm left to ponder,
Will going sweet, then be its new state?
I guess then I'll have some sweet cream
In my coffee I guess it can go
But wait, has my coffee expired?
Who knows these days, with GMO?
Who wants expired coffee in their cup?
If it's expired, then doe's it go flat?
If flat, it might not fit in a cup
Then on a plate, would be where it's at!
So here's to the newest generation
To the lot of you living the dream
Enjoy your flat coffee on a plate
And don't forget your sweet, sour cream!
Categories:
expirations, humorous, imagery, life,
Form: Quatrain