It happens that I am perturbed/
by the way the trees bend to match the/
curvature of the earth/
child-like fingers that haven't yet learnt to be gentle/
pushing them like blades of grass/
hoping they don't crack beneath the weight of innocence/
the long-dead philosophers might turn over/
in their graves/
a reminder of all that has lived and died/
and knowledge that is nothing compared to the insurmountable belief/
that everyone has the capability to love/
will seep into the dark soil around rotted wood/
and make the worms and spiders writhe/
in uncomfortable tension/
because what is nature without pain/
and what is pain without a means to share it/
I am a poet/
my soul dwells in the/
essence of discovering the unknown and/
being more than just a name on a/
paper no one will ever find/
as the aromatic scent of summer dirt beneath/
clean fingernails and the sound of/
a wind resembling a heartbeat/
live and thrive inside this shell that holds my being/
the same wind inside me that forces the trees to obey/
pounds against my skull/
yet somehow:
I do not bend.
What are goofy things
Being awkward,
telling dumb jokes and stories,
or wearing crazy clothes
are all great ways to be goofy.
Why are my stories so bad
I never thought them goofy
The lady say's I'm a jerk.
I never thought I was being useless
She said I had a silly grin.
I thought I was smiling.
I admit to loving you
You are ashamed of me
aren't you?
A goofy smile is sweet
unless you don't wanna be sweet.
Why am I sweet anyway
or are you just mean and sour
and repel great looking men
Huh? Come on tell me.
Please tell me why you know
so much?
Tell me why you're so special.
I'm proud and debineer
cool and sophisticated
I got that rizz about me
I got that rizz about me
i really;really do
an alarming rhizz go tell your friends
tell them I'm that great and entertaining
Goofy, nah I'm Rizomatic
This word was created today
the word was brand new.
I am grateful for the ability to dance…
even though my dancing’s weak…
because dancing is one of the best ways I know
to allow my heart to speak.
I am grateful for the ability to learn about others…
in a world filled with my sisters and brothers….
Because when I learn about another person…
who they are, how they live…where the dwell
It’s amazing but at the same time
I learn more about myself as well
We have the ability to forgive—
Like wind that moves through trembling leaves,
It asks no permission,
It seeks no reply,
It simply flows, unseen.
Forgiveness is a hush in the heart,
A candle in the night—
Flickering, but alive.
It softens sharp voices,
And turns hard faces into water.
It is the hand that lifts the stone,
Then lets it go.
It is the quiet sun that breaks the storm,
It is the flower that still grows
In broken ground.
We have the ability to forgive—
A gift as deep as love itself.
Today I’m grateful for my ability to read
It has allowed me to discover truths
to think for myself
and for my imagination to be freed…
And though I don’t always agree with ever word
and may or may not choose to heed them….
I rejoice I have been blessed
with the ability to read them.
Today I’m thankful for the ability to dance
and for having read the words of people like Vicki Baum…a gifted Austrian writer
Who through her writing helped to make our world a little brighter
Like the day in her life when she penned this little gem
There are shortcuts to happiness she wrote
and dancing is one of them
Today I’m thankful for our ability to enjoy each moment of life…
everything we taste, touch hear or see….
and may we do our best to enjoy each moment…
before it fades into a memory.
Today I’m thankful for the ability to give…knowing giving can be fun…
as I now give the rest of this blessing to Emily Dickinson:
Who wrote:
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again
I shall not live in vain.
Today I’m thankful for our ability to wonder…
and to find wonder in the world:
For instance…I wonder how this works:
When I’m feeling low…
when it’s wonder in my life I lack…
all I have to do is look around…
and I find little bits of wonder looking back.
Today I’m thankful for the ability to help another person in need
And here Mother Teresa’s words ring true….
We only need to help one person at a time…she said
and why not start with the person who is nearest to you.
Today I’m thankful for our ability to laugh…
one of the many gifts handed down from our creators above….
and I pray all our laughter is genuine…
and spring forth from a place of love.
Today I’m thankful for the ability to fall in love..
for this simple reason why…
The moment we fall in love…
Is the moment…our heart learns it can fly.
Today I’m thankful for my ability to read…and write…
with the hope that in my life…these two keep reuniting…
That I have been able to write something worth reading…
or to have done something worth writing
And my thanks to Benjamin Franklin whose writings I have read…
And to his particular quote…that put this thought inside my head.
Today I’m thankful for the ability to be thankful
and the way thankfulness breeds thankfulness more and more…
because the more you practice being thankful….
you find
the more you have to be thankful for.
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