[stylist] new poem: Living It

[Myrna Badgerow]

Jackie, do what must. I will wait for these gems but I am so looking forward to reading them.  I have seen the backwards poems before and I have to admit my brain shuts down at the mere thought. Thank you so much for the kindness about my work. I feel the same about you  How blessed we are on the list to have the chance to share and learn from each other.  
Myrna


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On Jun 11, 2012, at 11:55 AM, "Jacqueline Williams" <jackieleepoet at cox.net> wrote:

> Myrna,
> Forgive me a cliché, This just blows my mind. I am familiar with the
> assignments of either ten or twenty random words, but seldom have I read one
> with such wisdom and a philosophy of life embedded in it.
> Your choice of words was not an easy one, but your use of them for examples
> taking us on your trip of life is masterful.
> You are indeed an exceptional poet.
> At a later time, I will send you my random word poem and the one written
> backward from the same words and theme.
> I must get to a book revision for an August deadline, and until then, I just
> hope to keep up minimally.
> Keep up the significant work that you consistently produce.
> Jackie
> 
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> Subject: [stylist] new poem: Living It
> 
> Last night during our division board meeting I  mentioned a poem I'd 
> written that had really sprained the brain.  We were  given fifteen words to
> 
> choose from and at least one of the words must be  included in a poem.  You
> could 
> use one word or all fifteen or any number in  between.  Well, in a very 
> fun-spirited email the gauntlet was thrown down  and like the bull charging
> the 
> red cape I decided to give all fifteen a  go.  
> Here are the words we had to use, followed by the  poem.  It is both 
> attached and in email.
> 
> The required words to choose from:  compare,  quality, brick, cookie, tea, 
> division, arch, mortality, orchestra, substitute,  split, diving, flat, 
> juvenile, siding.
> 
> Living It
> 
> 
> How  does one compare the quality of life
> to the quality of living it? Perhaps  there is
> no comparison because the life we are given
> is not our choice but  the living of it is.
> There is a division, an imaginary arch that  will
> split the entities of choice and predetermined
> reality. This will  impact the other but not always
> determine the journey of our mortality.  Extraordinary
> circumstances may do this but even then we are often
> given a  chance to change the seemingly unchangeable path.
> The brick, on the hand,  would likely not choose to be a brick,
> but it has no recourse, no offered  options. Nor does
> the cookie and tea have that choice as they are but the  culinary 
> products  of another's whim. Neither can substitute a different path.
> Our avian friends  or their friends of nature cannot truly conduct
> an orchestra of their  choosing for the arias are already written
> and the conductor already holds  His baton. But how fortunate are we! 
> We  can choose to go diving into life headlong knowing we may land
> on our feet or  flat upon our backs. We can peel away the siding of
> our juvenile dreams, our  adolescent schemes, allowing
> each to spill into our adult truth, into the  life we have been
> handed, and there the magic begins!
> We mold and we  sculpt. We paint and we write. We tidy
> up some imperfections, leaving a few  to keep us honest.
> And we live! We take each moment into our hands and  we
> breathe of it. We feel the wind and we touch sky. And we thank
> the  master conductor for allowing us to offer our own
> contributions to living and  leaving our imprint on a life that
> we hope will be remembered well.
> How  very fortunate we are, indeed! 
> 
> 
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