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SUBMITTING SILENCE

Moment bleeds into hour
Activity moving along
Every thought of danger
Always wanting to belong

Nothing seems to pan out
Leads surface and disappear
What is wrong with my person
No one can endure me being here

Other people have support
Mine is rescue-based
Where they always come out the hero
I'm kneeling alone...feeling debased

I'm done with going along
Getting along has cost me living
I will no longer abandon my self
To endure required giving

Liberation is death to systems
Designed to keep servants working
Overseers hired and placed
To hide around corners, always lurking

So what if it looks like I am alone
My spiritual family has my back
Daddy God designed my success
As trust learns peace in the midst of lack

Seasons come and go
This season is the point of no return
I am losing everything
That has prevented me from wanting to learn

Silence

Written by Trudy Schrader on 01-17-2026

Waiting for Snow

There’s something appealing
To waiting for snow,
Though Nature’s concealing
Just how it will go.

The weather predictions
State how much will fall,
But sometimes convictions
Won’t pan out at all.

The markets are crowded
With folks filling carts
As skies grow more clouded
Before it all starts.

As children may gather
Their boots and their sleds,
The grown-ups would rather
Stay snug in their beds.

Yet now we’re just waiting
To see that first flake,
For anticipating
Might be a mistake.

Better Bide With Breeze

To last dots if man
Plans, and life not that way pans
Out, what avail plans?
Life’s most moving moments race,
Pass by like breeze, not a trace!
_______________________________  
Reflections |13.12.2022| Tanka, life

Poet’s note: This Tanka is born of some unease on how to live life. Of late it seems that man tends to plan too much, and when things do not that way pan out, he finds faults with life. This poem wonders if one should go with the breeze.


Timing

Timing is the key to whether
Many things pan out.
We wait too long, we’ve missed the boat;
We know what that’s about.

Procrastination may cause
Opportunities to fade
And then regret kicks in
For the decisions we’ve not made.

The timing of a venture
May determine its success.
Too soon or late may wreck it,
Thereby adding lots of stress.

Comedians are criticized
If they can’t nail their timing,
Like rhythmless musicians
(Or a poet bad at rhyming).

Iron

Sunday did not pan out,
an iron faith faltered.
It was a wane wobble.
it was cellular rust,
it was not enough iron.

Iron pills rattle in me like BB pellets,
my stools are obsidian artifacts.
More red wine, less whine.

The day got no better,
anemic confusions swirled.
I sucked upon nuts and bolts,
listened to Metallica,
had to iron-out yet more
non-ferrous unpleasantness.

Not Long To Go Now Until We Know

Not long to go now until we are
told we will know

How the next 4 year's are bound
to pan out

As the way it's been reported on 
it's almost like we have a casting
vote or have a say in it ourselves

Bering in mind however or whichever
way it pan's out it is entirely up
to them not us 

I highly doubt they care what we think
anyway as they have far more pressing
problems to deal with

And when such a big deal is made
of Russian interference why or how
come we don't feel the need to but 
out either

If you believe in the supposition
that the news media are the so
called all knowing visionaries
they proport to be like our very
own BBC

Then this election is moot anyway

And just how much power can
or does a President really wield 
in an actual democracy

Only a Dictator who rules by
an iron fist is trully blessed 
with the gift of absolute power

Ask any old ordinary folk who lives
in say Russia, China, Iran, Afghanistan
or Saudi Arabia

On the basis of if no one is looking 
over there shoulder or they are 
reading verbatim from a script

Pause, smile for effect praise
the leader and maybe you will
see your family again


Premium Member Ambedo

Our attention flowing in time quanta
Each packet of time a hypnotic trance
Our waking being this continuità
Fickle attention leads us on a dance

Captive thus to innate affinity
Save void of polarity interchange 
As dreams pan out in continuity
We begin to feel within stirrings strange

Regrets of past and fears of future haunt
If we be not in the present moment 
Emptiness has no agenda to flaunt
Love divine heightening our bliss quotient

Raising then Tamas to a Sattva stance
Childlike purity joyous in each trance

29-October-2020

Iron

Sunday did not pan out,
an iron faith faltered;
events planned
wandered off like drunken sheep.
It was the Advil,
it was the insomnia,
it was not enough iron in my soul.

Speaking of which, my stools
are obsidian artifacts;
a consequence of iron therapy.

The day got no better,
the drunk sheep returned all at once,
tin replaced iron,
anemic confusions swirled
my spirit grew pale.

Within me
body bugs binged
on iron
while the blood dieted.

Sunday smelts to Monday
a peaceful time,
my inner ghost is recovering,
sheep are grazing.

I suck upon nuts
and bolts
make plans,
iron-out
future road bumps.

A Ray of Hope

Sometimes when things seem so bleak
Oblivion’s all that you seek
A small ray of hope
Allows you to cope
And at sunny skies gives you a peek.

It may not pan out, but at least
When anxiety’s slightly decreased
The knots in your gut
May unloosen somewhat 
So despair and distress are released.

We all manage in different ways
So one’s rainbows are somebody’s grays
But the tiniest light
In the tunnel just might
Be enough to wipe out one’s malaise.

An Optimist and Pessimist

An optimist and pessimist were sitting in the park,
Their outlooks as divergent as the light is to the dark.
“I think this will be over soon,” the optimist declared.
The pessimist just looked at her as if she were impaired.

“Our lives will never ever be the ones we used to lead,”
The pessimist asserted, but her buddy disagreed.
“You’ll see, before you know it, all will be just like before,”
The optimist responded, a believer to the core.

Their argument continued, each convinced that she was right,
Not seeing any grays at all between the black and white.
Yet time will tell whose thoughts pan out, for now the world’s a mess
And I don’t see it going back. (My side? Well, take a guess!)

Premium Member Panning For Gold

Sifting, sifting 
Listening, listening
baffled and hoping that we’ll be
Friends in the end; 
Watching, watching;
Looking for what’s glistens.
As I contemplate on those who may shine.
Nuggets of truth surface sublime, 
Who shall stand the test of time?

Yet time has already shown its hand. 
And only fool’s gold is left in my pan. 
Sifting, sifting, desperately praying  
That your sincerity would shine, 
 leaving no doubt.
Not wanting to let you go
 but the proof proves…
” that you’re petty” ;  
Now I'm saddened,because…
‘’You didn’t pan out’’

Premium Member A Sense of Holidays

A sense of holidays! 

Blueberry pie hot out of the oven with buttery toppings 
popcorn popping in the pot with oil on the stove 
Lemon and lime are the sour balls used for drinks or garnish 
Take that hot pan out of the oven with your glove.  

Coffee is served with a biscotti, black coffee, strong, steamy 
Fresh coffee beans ground and gurgling through the percolator 
Unsweetened coffee, hot, burns your lips, bitter to the tongue 
Cold ice in the freezer and the glass shelf in the refrigerator.  

Uncle Joe’s gas problem and Aunt Emma’s feet 
As Grandfather breathes and snores through his nose.  
The last crumbs of cinnamon, the last glob of whipped cream 
Take Grandma’s hand when you walk out, she hates to impose.

Premium Member So Much For That

here's to best intentions that don't always pan out ~



AP: 1st place 2025

Premium Member Tapestry Ii

Hail, languish in the quietude of youth innocence,

Forward the moment set for a future ponderance,

Greeting the unmeasured stare of memories call,

Tendering spirits its fortitude of life's forward haul,

Early scenes pan out the absence of rational reels,

Patterns that pave the assured their gallant feels,

                                ...to be alive then and now.



Date: 09/03/2019

Snail Mail Registration

The bulletin for courses
Shows up twice a year online
With a registration coupon.
(I just finished printing mine.)

These are classes meant for teachers
(Just retired ones attend)
Which provide the opportunity
To learn or make a friend.

Certain listings each semester
Are most highly in demand
So not every registration
Will pan out as people planned.

Dilly-dallying’s a no-no
For the more relaxed who wait
To submit their course selection
May discover they’re too late.

Which is why I choose my classes,
Fill the form and write the check,
Stamp the envelope and hustle
To the post office like heck!

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