Where are You? – poem by OTL
Posted: May 25, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Friendship, lonely, loss, Love, Poetry, relationships, Thoughts 1 CommentWhere are you
When I need ?
When I ache ?
When I hurt ?
You always seem to be into me
Day or night,
When you need a friend.
How about me?
I turn to you
For a simple visit
A simple phone call.
You don’t hear me,
Crying inside
For love,
For help,
For healing.
Had our friendship
Never been ?
Was it me loving you,
Nothing more ?
I have the feeling
I was loving,
But no one returned.
poem – OTL
Be Still – – – and Know
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My Final Days – poem by OTL
Posted: May 11, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: beginnings, Death, endings, Hope, journey, meaning of life, personal growth, Poetry, wisdom Leave a comment“So old so soon,
so smart so late.”
I remember my grandfather saying those words to me one afternoon when I was a child of five. Those words have been in my mind since that day. They move in the shadows between so many thoughts. – – Thinking of him, now thinking of me.
As a child when I heard my grandfather make that statement,
I really had no idea what he meant.
– – – only knew he was now old.
As a man now having reached his sixties,
I understand – well,
very well,
Their meaning.
I have had experiences
Wonder
Adventure
Learning
Achievement
Struggles and failures
Pain
Growth and success
Embarrassment
Even shame
Self discovery
True sense of my true self.
I have part of the answer to the question –
Who am I?
I am blessed.
I am gifted.
An eternal learner.
An eternal student of life,
With much more
Yet to discover
Yet to learn
Yet to embrace.
However, even this day well before my last,
I can stand “grounded”.
I look back over many years of life.
I have a history.
With that history
I look forward to the next chapters of this life
However many may yet be left.
That I don’t know,
Nor ever will.
Only after I pass, will others be able to tell you.
Now standing here,
At the head of “my parade”
Built upon the richness that all of my personal history affords me,
The paths I have walked,
The miles I have traveled,
The energy of the universe
Urges me
To be a contributor,
An active participant,
A co-creator,
of my remaining days.
And so – I commit.
Poem by – – OTL 8.16.12
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“a good time” – reflection
Posted: May 7, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Death, good times, Life, Meaning, meditation, Reflection Leave a comment“We’re not here for a long time,
we’re here for a good time!”
REFLECTION:
How would you define – “a good time”?
What words does this photo “speak” to you? – Within you?
About you? About how you live? About how you spend your time?
About your past hopes & dreams? About your plans for the future?
About the beauty you have experienced,
and the beauty you want to experience – in your life?
What are you doing to make all of that happen?
Be Still – – – and Know
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Old Age – – thoughts by Epicurus
Posted: May 1, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Epicurus, Life, meditation, Old Age, Reflection, wisdom, youth Leave a commentFrom the ancient Greek, Epicurus, there is his delicious dictum:
“It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.”
REFLECTION
What thoughts does the quotation from Epicurus bring to our mind?
About you? About how you live? About how you spend your time?
About your past hopes & dreams? About your plans for the future?
About the beauty you have experienced,
and the beauty you want to experience – in your life?
About your search for true happiness?
What are you doing to make all of that happen?
Be Still – – – and Know
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