[stylist] new poem: Living It

[KajunCutie926 at aol.com]

Eve, I think I mentioned it before you got there as a  fore-warning if my 
mind seemed to be blank. Thank you so much for your kind  words but believe 
me I would not compare our writing from when we were  young.  You, my friend, 
would be far superior as I did not even consider  writing until about 12 or 
so years ago.   Yes I think we do think  alike, and you are right about the 
spiritual side of me.  I have always I  am not the most religious person 
around though I do believe but I am very  spiritual and I think that too is 
what has prompted me to do the Teacher series  as well.
May your words continue to flourish as well so that I  may continue to 
learn from you.. and from all who share words  here.
 
Myrna
 
 
In a message dated 6/12/2012 12:59:26 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
3rdeyeonly at gmail.com writes:

Myrna, I  do not remember the mention during the meeting, but I am glad you
took the  time to share this. Funny thing is that it reminds me so much of a
poem I  wrote when I was young. Oh not the writing itself, but the  message
conveyed. The quality of the writing is so superiour with your  piece and I
think the message is conveyed much more concisely. I appreciate  you putting
into such beautiful words the thoughts I had. As I suspected  during our
wonderful conversation that night long ago, we think alike. I  consider you
a spiritual friend and love your talent. May it rub off onto  me and others
whom you touch. :) Namaste, Eve

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012  at 7:36 AM, <KajunCutie926 at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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