{"id":2191,"date":"2016-03-29T16:42:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T21:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2016-03-29T16:42:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T21:42:24","slug":"poem-life-as-a-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/29\/poem-life-as-a-breeze\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Life As A Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Life peers to me<\/strong>
\nAs a gentle breeze<\/strong>
\nWith fragrant harmonies<\/strong>
\nIn the tenderest victories<\/strong>
\nKnow longer bought a bout by yielding hope<\/strong>
\nProspecting in rock<\/strong>
\nDead set, vane certainties<\/strong>
\nOr coarse inclinations<\/strong>
\nWhile a sole breath moves through me<\/strong>
\nNot ever posing<\/strong>
\nAs superior<\/strong>
\nFrom above<\/strong>
\nSecurely skeptical<\/strong>
\nOf won scoffing up<\/strong>
\nA flunked up humanity<\/strong>
\nAs a praising sneer life experiences<\/strong>
\nFrom the cryptic<\/strong>
\nAs a well found cynicism<\/strong>
\nIn the phase of unmerited bounty<\/strong>
\nOn a head of the game<\/strong>
\nAs dead or alive know matter<\/strong>
\nAs inspiring expires<\/strong>
\nWeather we apprehend or knot<\/strong>
\nAnd how ever we reckon our peeps<\/strong>
\nIt is realizable<\/strong>
\nStill possible<\/strong>
\nLife sucks<\/strong>
\nOr with equal viability <\/strong>
\nLife blows<\/strong>
\nSeemingly a parent either weigh<\/strong>
\nA cruel duplicity<\/strong>
\nWinds of change<\/strong>
\nRunning lapse around you<\/strong>
\nLeaving won too<\/strong>
\nGiving no quarter<\/strong>
\nAnd only making spare cents<\/strong>
\nAs scorn points<\/strong>
\nAwe the wile know one wants<\/strong>
\nToo be still<\/strong>
\nAs the heart beats<\/strong>
\nHave the time<\/strong>
\nKnow longer wanting<\/strong>
\nJust deserts<\/strong>
\nA trial of tears<\/strong>
\nAnd fated watering whole<\/strong>
\nPooring out<\/strong>
\nAs in is capable<\/strong>
\nOnly too fine life in such delugings<\/strong>
\nIn this tempest of life<\/strong>
\nWear wind and water<\/strong>
\nMeet on earth<\/strong>
\nIn a saucy plan it<\/strong>
\nOf surf and turf<\/strong>
\nWandering whether<\/strong>
\nLife is fare<\/strong>
\nA mist such room and bored<\/strong>
\nWith awe of its chinooks and grannies<\/strong>
\nEver present ciao time<\/strong>
\nReigning in time<\/strong>
\nAnd timeless<\/strong>
\nA mid week prostration<\/strong>
\nAnd fateful eras<\/strong>
\nWrest a spell <\/strong>
\nAs a right full heir<\/strong>
\nFore life is a breeze<\/strong>
\nOnly to be<\/strong>
\nBared at see<\/strong><\/p>\n

This poem is about the ethereal nature of human life and the breezy character of the human spirit, where success has more to do with experiencing fragrant harmonies than vane certainties.\u00a0 \"Ever<\/a>My skepticism about skepticism partners with my playful heart as hope and willingness trump willful crass pragmatism or cynical “realism.”\u00a0\u00a0Apprehending such tender truths is better realized as believing is seeing more so than seeing is believing.\u00a0 Hope, gratitude, and unmerited generosity open our hearts to seeing better than through stacks of the thickest and most erudite reams of scientific reports.\u00a0 A fruitful life of the spirit is a prerequisite for a meaningful and abundant life.\u00a0 In a paraphrase of the Bob Dylan lyric, “You don’t need a whether vane to know which way the wind blows.”\u00a0 May you follow the winds of the spirit without overly kneading to no from whence it comes or where it goes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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