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D Eric Pettigrew Jun 2020
This is not about I
This is not about me
This is about us
This is about we
This is about fighting an enemy
Untouched and unseen
Whose power resides in the fear
This can mean
This is about coming together
While staying apart
And closing your door
While opening your heart
This is not about your house
But the space you call home
Not about your colour
Or the place you came from
This is about finding a way
To share someone’s load
Or helping the neighbour
Who lives down the road
This is about easing a burden
To help someone to cope
This is about purpose and meaning
And compassion and hope
This is about listening carefully
To the voice from above
This is about living
This is about love
This is not about I
This is not about me
This is about us
This is about we
Thoughts during a pandemic
D Eric Pettigrew Mar 2019
Throw a stone into still waters
When I am gone
And think of me
And watch each ripple outward flow
And disappear
Never to return
But know too
That somewhere on a distant beach
Away from here
A wave will break upon the sand
And there I'll be
Alone
Forever waiting
For you
D Eric Pettigrew Feb 2019
I am lying in the dark
I am flying through space
And I am falling, falling
I hear his voice
I am glad you are my Dad
I am in his arms and I am falling, falling
I hear his voice  
I am glad you are my Dad
I am crying
I am crying
I am crying
I am falling
I hear his voice  
Again and again
I listen to his song
And I am falling
I listen to his song
And I am listening to the music in my heart.
LOS ANGELES-2008
D Eric Pettigrew Feb 2019
If you please you can call this the first rule of Biddle, tis:
Twixt beginning and end, there is always a middle.

2. The door to the mind should be open, but 

There are times that it’s best that the door remains shut.

3. Live life each day to the full, and then some

But know yesterday came, and tomorrow will come.

4. Count on yourself and you’ll stand out in a crowd

But to others be humble, and inside you’ll feel proud.

5. Some people find pleasure in some money or toy

But it’s family and friends which will bring your heart joy.

6. The most important seven words on the way to the top, are:

Never never never never never give up.
From the Six Rules of Biddle, a child's poem for adults
D Eric Pettigrew Feb 2019
Should you but decide to climb
That peak towering to the heavens
You will find there is a pathway
To its very summit.

Ah, but the first step.
Yoyogi Koen, Tokyo 1986
D Eric Pettigrew Feb 2019
No longer two ships pass in dead of night
Their signals crossed as if by unseen hand
Same course
Same stars
While yet unplanned
Led them to dreamlike moments
Torn by hasty flight
While holiday's bells toll away
Enraptured hours
The boy sets sail to be a man
And leaves in port behind
His thoughts
In part
In whole
His heart
Forever touched.
July 1976
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