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The true worship of all that's sacred
Is more than tolerance
It's acceptance even when
Your heart isn't feeling very
Compassionate...
There remains no vestige of a beginning
Nor prospects of an end...
Cheers!
A most delicate creature of profound curiosity with the patience of Job ..
Noble fowl that study the trail ahead for hours on end before making themselves known ...
Royal North American birds with qualities , instincts , character and presence of mind that any man would do well to pursue and retain as his very own ..
Copyright January 28 , 2016 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved

My apologies for tasking my fellow artist with back to back poems of birds .. Thought I saw a few this morning lurking in the woods beside us ..
The depth eludes
The span intrigues
The presence or absence
Of a single human gene
The hand of chance
The toss of bones
A need to write
To ride, to roam
Extroverted instincts
Introverted scares
So many different
Combinations
Of who we are
No end to up
Nor absolute down
The rules of existence
Continue to confound
Protons and electrons
With neutrons we fire
Our vibrations fluctuating
Our hearts full of desires

In stages of growth
In philosophical minds  
In spiritual realms
We are merely
Vibrations in time...
our lives are fraught with numbers

so many fractions of a second faster in a race  
most wins on record   best jury votes
highest flight   deepest dive   most goals
meters of rising sea levels
millions of refugees   and more displaced
tens of thousands  honor killings
thousands of deaths with Ebola  
millions of Zika virus victims next year
billions of deficit or profit in import/export
    or the stock exchange
votes in elections    or for beauty queens

polls    tweets   virtual friends  & followers
likes on the social media    on hellopoetry

we have been taught to measure our status
our importance   and the significance of our lives
in clicks of other peoples’ digital devices

even our time has been reduced to numbers
the digital has long replaced the comprehensive
instead of the round dial that shows 12 hours
    suggesting the duration of a normal day
we have a punctual display  without the whole
the cyclical has lost against the linear

0101010101010101010101010101010101
we all look forward to our numbered future
no past  and very little present

our hands on smart phones    homes    TVs
    pushing a button makes things move
    swishing a screen displays the world

over all that we easily forget
that we ourselves have been reduced to numbers
    of customers for businesses
    of voters for the politicians
    of workers for the corporations
    of citizens for our nations
digital quantities we have become

and if we take a global view
we are part of the seven billion plus
that currently inhabit our earth


all of which do expect their individuality
be honored  and their dignity respected

numbers don’t  honor individuality
they simply count the units
items  or people  are for them the same

it’s left to us to find a way
that leaves the numbers in their place
yet guarantees us dignity
as individual members of the human race
in my dream, we have no eyes for blind mice
and that's nice, if you ain't got three, and a grand clock
but we lived in the pendulum of an arc in a long box
laid to rest in a deep room of rich soil, and dumb rocks.
the dream bent, where i stepped aside from my suspicions
that you had eyes in your pockets. while i had only holes...
and paper cranes.
i keep the moss on my fingertips, when i dig into the sky -
to find your face.
and that's nice, if you ain't been grounded; stuck in a fugly glut
of gravity's finest hits. pinned to the wings of a butterfly, pinned-
to an anvil... strapped to a georgia peach.
you always have the shark fin soup, as i graze the pit.
as the pit gazed into me. you sip a bit, n'swell your cheeks.
we are nothing like our waking lives
while sleeping so truthfully.

somehow we're on the beach. where it never started. but deja vu
as if remembering the beach. and forget how we have not the eyes
for blind mice save the eyes in your pocket
while i have all the holes
that you need.

and paper cranes.

II

the bleeding has stopped, where a spear kissed an artery too violently
and shook loose my red roving rivers of rebellious reveries. stopped - and now it's a knot's petty game. it extends my life just to mock complete
Happiness. but i peep the same. i know the moon is the only sister that has my back.
where i have slept
beneath her...
dreaming on earth
dreaming on earth

dreaming, alas*....
this word alone
can't hurt you
but
what makes it painful
are the people
that surrounds it*

©IGMS
society will always
pull you down and label you
but don't listen to them
stand at the middle
between feeling
and thinking
don't mind them
be who you are
and what you will be
shines through the dark
through the sky
of blackness stark

my brave little light
beams far and wide
this small star
won't be denied

it's every planet
every star to flit
it's every fire
ever lit

it's every lightbulb
every moon
It'll shine
just like high noon

it's every candle
upon your sill
it's a city
on a hill

it won't go out
it won't dim
it won't be blocked
it exalts Him

it beacons out
through darkest night
it shows the Way

my brave little light



SoulSurvivor
(C) 2/2/2016
you can ALL be a light!

SHINE ON!


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