[stylist] new poem: Living It
Ashley Bramlett
bookwormahb at earthlink.net
Mon Jun 11 18:18:45 UTC 2012
Myrna,
Thanks. and I got you and Atti confused.
This makes sense though.
-----Original Message-----
From: Myrna Badgerow
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 1:10 PM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] new poem: Living It
Hi Ashley
Yes the master can be God or whoever or whatever one's spiritual guide is.
And thank you for the kind words. I love a challenge and have been so
blessed to have been guided toward a positive outlook on living.
Myrna
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 11, 2012, at 11:36 AM, "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
wrote:
> Hi Atty,
>
> Good poem; a reflection on life and growing it seems to be. Who is the
> master conductor? I thought it might be God or a spiritual being, but not
> sure who you meant it to be.
>
> Ashley
>
> -----Original Message----- From: KajunCutie926 at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 9:36 AM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> 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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