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Note to Self

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Climbing some rock then a quick dip in the ocean below… For some of us, it doesn’t get any better.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Note to Self

Mountains and sea
Will live happily ever after
Knowing they are stone and water
Erosion and weather
Yin and yang

Oceans don’t complain
They tide high or low
Pressure released

Mountains reject weakness
They suck it up
Hold their strength tight
Occasionally send an offspring
To the valley floor
But resent?
Regret?
Bad moods because they might not have the biggest peaks?
I think not

Now humans
Will the species ever accept itself?

Anyway
Nature does have its moods
But it doesn’t long to be something it’s not
Sea = water
Stones = rock
Sun up
Sun down
Just being
No enhancement needed
None at all
 

 

 



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Reviewed by Diana Legun (Reader)
Reviewed on March 30, 2012
Your question of humans ever accepting themselves: When the ego becomes extinct, maybe that could be; but we would have to lose 'thought' altogether. Babies are in the Buddha state.....until language is learned and ego is then also learned. I enjoy writings that contemplate nature vs. 'human nature,' and the plight that is affixed to the latter. And that comtemplation is the positive side of 'thinking,' which I feel was present in your 'Note to Self.' Thanks for the good read. ~~ Diana

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on March 23, 2012
a quick dip in the old ocean always sharpens the senses and uplifts our overall state of being ... a insightful melody in these poetic notes ...

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on March 23, 2012
Yeah, well we humans are never satisfied, for the most part. To be completely satisfied is to become stagnant. Stagnant things begin to have an odor about them. Nasty smelling odor. While it is perfectly normal and right for nature to be satisfied, it doesn't humans. Wait! Even nature isn't completely satisfied, sometimes nature reaches out to be something other than what it was. Think tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, that is nature stepping out, being something other than was expected.


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