[stylist] new poem: Living It

Barbara Hammel poetlori8 at msn.com
Wed Jun 13 03:44:45 UTC 2012 

You do that.  I'm up for a challenge like that.
How many times must you use them or is it just that you use them till you've 
said what you wanted to with them?
Barbara




Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
-----Original Message----- 
From: Myrna Badgerow
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:40 PM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] new poem: Living It

Eve if you guys would like I could share the same words I do on the poetry 
site every week. We only do five but all five must be used. The one with the 
fifteen words was not my challenge. And thank you for the kind words.
Myrna

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On Jun 12, 2012, at 10:26 PM, Eve Sanchez <3rdeyeonly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ahhh, you make me smile here. And I believe that spirituality is so much
> more than 'religion'. Not the literal definition, but what it has become 
> to
> mean. We do not sit in pews, but we gain strength from the wind. May that
> wind blow softly in your direction. :) Eve               And I think this
> would be a wonderful exercise for us all if someone wants to pick random
> words we must all use in a piece. Challenge is what forces us to grow.
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:02 PM, <KajunCutie926 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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