Simple Joys

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    Very often we wait for bigger things to happen, whether they happen or not, while those that will definitely happen and make us happy enough are right there before us.

    Simple Joys

    It's best to take heart in simple joys

    Than break heart with big dreams.

     

    How many of us take in the free breeze blow

    And not long for the motored resort?

     

    Which of you won't butcher a rooster

    When your garden is a pantry of green vegetables?

     

    Which of you would shrink to the woman by your side

    When another bewitchingly passes you by?

     

    Which of you would overlook a wad of money

    While you vehemently oppose the theory of chance?

     

    Who among you would an intoxicating today

    Put off for an uncertain tomorrow?

     

    Today is in your face but tomorrow can betray you:

    What's yours can always be yours

    But what you don't have might never be yours.   

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    SpiritSong commented on Simple Joys

    01-13-2010

    wow!.. Unveiled reality to be sure..very well written abraham.. raw and exposing of the weaknesses we all have to face and deal with on a daily basis... our choices of the seed we plant, bring forth life and beauty into our gardens or ugliness and death... I will choose those seeds of life this day, that me and my house will live, and know The LORDS peace..in Him is the end of sorrows and the beginnings,opening up into streams of fullness of Joy known and expressed.. Well written..very well done...ty abraham.. "SpiritSong"
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    abraham

    01/14/2010

    Thanks,SS. I like the 'divinity' you commented on in connection with my work.

    Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

    T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.

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