Here is a poem about voluntary simplicity. Poverty is brutal. None the less, seriously leaning into “more for less” can unleash deeper “values.” I have learned to relish having “more time than money” and shedding less satisfying consumer-oriented impulses. I have found great wealth in slowing down and letting life flow over and through me more sow than “making things” happen.
Udder Simplicity
Hear and now
Lean
Into poverty
And loan some virtues
Thrifty abundance
Thanks giving
Without stuffing
Timeless
Without
Pretense or tense
Priceless
Within
Transcending the buy and buy
And if you should find yourself
In cross country
Keep on truckin’
With semi voluntary poverty
What
The whirled takes
God returns
A gazillion times
