I
When you have used up nerve, muscle, sinew
To be all you dreamed for others and for you
Then the soul alone can make you move at all
That is how U write like Rumi, Emily, Hawthorne
II
When death and evil seem greater than good
When darkness seems omnipresent, not God
Then Scripture within extracts - in pain - a Word
That stirs in U all U took on earth for living bread
Categories:
gibran, analogy, angst, change, character,
Form: Quatrain
I
Think - but don't make THINKING "your aim" -
"Don't look too good ... or lose common touch"
I learned from past masters, one name
Is Kipling. Khalil Gibran. Thanks. Much!
II
He called defeat his "bold companion,"
To be understood "is to be leveled," without
"Defeat, My Defeat," he owned loss & gain;
Life & death. Prepared to dig graves within
Categories:
gibran, 12th grade, america, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
One focus sees the clear plain truth,
Notes of music in mystic planes.
Keep true beauty as soul knows proof,
Air fond freedom in deeper vein;
Hurl and curl art with wholeness bright,
Live sad hollow in pleasant feel;
Indulge the heart with mind and light,
Love bears sorrow as spirit heals.
Gain a sure flow in atmosphere,
Ink and sketch well as space lives time;
Bring sculptured show wise painter dear,
Reach sacred tell as grand thoughts rhyme;
Apt words instruct a path within,
Now soul constructs pure faith unseen.
Leon Enriquez
01 May 2015
Singapore
Categories:
gibran, blessing,
Form: Sonnet
Lonely as a Source in the desert.
Lonely as a Tree in the valley.
Lonely as a Darkness in the night.
Lonely, who water to the crave gives!
Lonely, who rest to the tired brings!
Lonely, who glow to the star gifts!
Lonely,
Lonely You are not!
You remained to the World
You and Fate
You and Poetry
You and Truth
Lonely,
Lonely You are not!
Love,
Wisdom,
Innocence,
Friends are Yours.
Lonely,
Lonely You are not
Categories:
gibran, life,
Form: Lyric