[stylist] new poem: Living It

[Myrna Badgerow]

Thank you Barbara. There are different ways it is done.  The words for mine were chosen by someone else and I have no idea how they did it. For the challenge I do I keep a running list of just random words. I try to keep them simple but every now and then I'll pop something off the wall in it. 
They are fun but can sometimes really exercise the brain  to the point of pain

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On Jun 12, 2012, at 10:27 PM, "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com> wrote:

> I love this poem.  I think it is beautiful.  I'd like to try my hand at doing this kind of poem.
> So, do you just have someone open the dictionary to random pages and tell you the first word their eye sees an entry for?
> I suppose I could do it myself by picking up a magazine and writing down the first ten words I find by randomly placing my hand on a page?
> Barbara
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> Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
> -----Original Message----- From: KajunCutie926 at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 8:36 AM
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> Subject: [stylist] new poem: Living It
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> 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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