Success in life is where you find it
Or better where the mind is
We know it where the glow is
On faces serene and calm.
Placards banners and
“Attaboys” are not the real McCoys
Just substitutes
For honest endeavors
That arise out of the sheer joy
Of thinking doing finding
That in the struggles
of life
It’s not in the framing
but in the strife
Not in the blaming
but in the knife
That cuts away the excess
and leaves nothing there
Only a point of view
that humanity never knew
Until we met the real
You.
I love the beauty of the simplicity in this poem, with lines like "Success...is where the glow is/On faces serene and calm/" that cuts like a rosy knife in my heart for I've felt THAT "glow", I still do, that is when I free myself. I feel it when a match of literary aethetical light dawns upon me like a creative halo...I feel it as when I write with gusto, I feel it when I read back what I've written and my heart swells up to an uproarious love for humanity...that being alive so touches me...THIS poem touched me, manitesting beauty in its simplicity...I am all a "glow"!I plan to be in touch as well as read more of your philosophy Dear Poet, and I am grateful that you are among us...in grattitude...
Jacques fleury
Poet/Theater Reviewer/Educator and Boston Globe featured author of
"Sparks in the Dark: A Lighter Shade of Blue, A Poetic Memoir
Serenity has a nice rhythm to it. Reminds me of rap, or what you might hear at a poetry slam reading. Yes, finding what you're meant to do is an honest endeavor that comes with struggle and sacrifice. I really like it.
A beautiful and well written poem…
One of the greatest joys is to have
serenity in our lives…
Our world suddenly becomes transformed
Under its calming spell..
In a world of fear and confusion,
Serenity is the ultimate antidote…
Some interesting thoughts are generated reading this thoughtful poem by you. Let us hope that "honest endeavors" will always pay off. Like your articles on how to fix the nation's financial ills with some simple measures that don't hurt anyone, but help everyone.
Good one, Ed. Honesty is very important to me. Genuineness is hard to find. The real self does come from decades of paring away what is excess and never belonged to begin with. Thank you for sharing. D
Very nice, Edward; deftly done and it indeed it cuts through the superfluous metaphysical excesses of human life to remind us that genuine serenity is as simple, basic (and vital to all of us) need as inhaling a breathe of bracing mountain air or taking a drink of pure water...
Beautiful poem. I've often thought that it isn't so much what others think they know about you as what you know of yourself, what you believe and what you have personally accomplished. Only in self knowledge, and self acceptance, can there be true serenity.
Our culture has taught us to believe in many ideas which aren't actually real. Exposing these illusions allows us to recover the power to live our lives according to our deepest desires.
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Jacques fleury
Poet/Theater Reviewer/Educator and Boston Globe featured author of
"Sparks in the Dark: A Lighter Shade of Blue, A Poetic Memoir
One of the greatest joys is to have
serenity in our lives…
Our world suddenly becomes transformed
Under its calming spell..
In a world of fear and confusion,
Serenity is the ultimate antidote…
Diana…
Ron
enjoyed reading this a lot.
Bravo!
regards,
craig.
Rebecca