{"id":2726,"date":"2017-06-21T08:54:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T13:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2017-06-21T08:54:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T13:54:42","slug":"poem-cursory-savor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/21\/poem-cursory-savor\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: That Cursory Savor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Life<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As present<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Did not add up<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As if<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A zero<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sum game<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The passed getting bigger<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The future getting smaller<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That good buy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That eminent lessen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As holy for gone<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As refuse<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As waive that fortune<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Having only<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Too come to wrest<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>With that cursory savor<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The eternal<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Religious-Spiritual\/Buttons\/That-was-Zen-This-is-Tao-FUNNY-SPIRITUAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Religious-Spiritual\/That-was-Zen-This-is-Tao.gif\" alt=\"That was Zen - This is Tao - FUNNY SPIRITUAL BUTTON\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>Here is yet another poem on the theme of the eternal now. Life can seem to pass by so quickly with so many distractions, perhaps wondering where it all goes. Know madder how attached we are to things, they seem to pass. \u00a0The present, arisen from the past and cascading into the future, is awe we have. \u00a0And we find ourselves, moved by weigh of this exquisite mystery, in the mist of where the passed and the future are knot won or the other. \u00a0Long the weigh, most of us look for a savor of some sort, weather short and sweet or lingering and rarefied. \u00a0Not with standing, we are prone to cling on, fighting increasingly alien forces, light years beyond any measure of good taste. \u00a0Our salivation dries up before our face, caught in a scrunch, as whither every fecund moment reseeds in\u00a0a parent mummification. \u00a0And in spite of everything, the Tao jones arises again and agin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life As present Did not add up As if A zero Sum game The passed getting bigger The future getting smaller That good buy That eminent lessen As holy for gone As refuse As waive that fortune Having only Too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/21\/poem-cursory-savor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[294,635,202,359,417,658,94,491,320],"class_list":["post-2726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-awe","tag-future","tag-holy","tag-life","tag-mystery","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-present","tag-tao"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: That Cursory Savor | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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