do you read me

it’s important that we connect to have someone get what we get to affirm that this isn’t a solo trip the invisible chords really do exist and if you don’t know what i’m talking about you don’t know what you missed it’s important………………………..that we connect   you won’t feel it…

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rubber band

may i be a rubber band holding sometimes but able to expand keeping things together and easy to unwind giving a little order and peace of mind stretching when i need to and sometimes standing firm binding things together as this world tosses and turns  

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vacation/gratitude is the key

perception colors my world, the colors depend on my gratitude   i needed a vacation from myself, so i offered to help someone else   the process turned me around, in it i found, i was a lot better off then i thought   perception is the key the colors…

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home

after all this time i’m finally home at last   much to my surprise it was closer than i thought   turns out not to be a place or destination   but peace inside my heart   home at last   everything is here

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God smiled

you may think i’m crazy or that i think like a child but sometimes as i go about my day i think i see God smile i would like to think it has to do with how i live my day i could be wrong but i don’t get that…

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the beginning is the end

sounds initially strange but consider it my friend on any given occasion, the beginning is the end for how we approach a problem or how we greet a friend is so heavily influenced by how we choose to begin i recommend wholeheartedly extreme consideration as to what is inferred from…

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delusions

delusions of a past i see, always came back and haunted me so i decided to ask them to hang around, until i could sort out what was lost and what was found so i poured over my back pages looking for a theme and what i found was unnerving…

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nvp

the sum total of what we understand, not what we experience   given to exaggeration as amplified hope, of what we would like to achieve   and what we know we probably won’t   somewhere in between, the truth and the lies, is the staging area we call life  …

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discovery: pry bar of time

what do i know   what do i see these perceptions get the best of me   when i think i understand the pry bar of time opens my mind     as usual what i find to so many things i was blind    

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no postage required/for wt and dm

this note won’t require any postage because i’m writing it for myself all the words have been spoken i’ll keep it as a reminder of my limitations   waste of time trying to change someone hard enough to change yourself better to accept the person, if you can or go…

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forgiveness/spiritual axiom

forgiveness is as much, if not more for me, than for you the letting go, lets God in the perception that something is given must be accompanied with the thought of receiving, grace

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horace the oak

Horace soared towards the sky at the edge of a beautiful meadow a meandering river passed nearby and offered its’ sweet water often it is not only a human characteristic to wish to be something different, other species suffer with the same discontent so it was with Horace, who longed…

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perception/’old poems never die’

the trickle of water: was enough to fill my cup, if i was patient made me long for torrents of rain started to weaken then it was gone   reviewing my notes: i had focused on areas that supported my opinion i had captured the essence of the lecture i…

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careful what you touch

careful what you touch you might feel a little rush, that turns into crush from a boulder you never saw coming your way different can be cool, but it is the romance of fools the same old thing dressed up in different clothes the exchange can be like an insect…

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molting

i shed this skin to become a new man starting the process over again i can’t go back to the beginning but i can look back and check my tracks and see when i left the trail i don’t have to go through the process but if i’m not willing…

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FAST WON’T LAST

fast won’t last fast won’t last look at me i failed the test hurry hurry and round and round sometimes up but most times down hide behind the face of a clown smiles outside, inside a frown tired of swimming the world is pulling me down one more thing before…

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a voice i can hear/ FOR Bill K.

a voice i can hear, came soft and clear i know it was arranged by God in a non-threatening way he is able to say ” you are whacked and you are forgetting who is in charge” in the past i would bristle up and feel my pride had been…

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looking at me

things are changing, i hope you can see   i took the microscope off you and put it on me   by so doing i was able to see   many of the problems i thought were yours   actually belong to me   nothing changes till something changes

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can’t do the same old thing/ for amy w.

can’t sang the same old songs with the same melodies people feel different they can’t all sound the same strange how you lull yourself into seeing things as you are taught they should be all the while denying what it is you actually see the friend who used to move…

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above, below and right where we are

there will always be some above, some below and where we are sometimes it’s challenging to accept that we are where we are supposed to be but what a difference it makes in us and our perception of the world around us i see this tree everyday in my yard…

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loosen your grip

holding on tight could mean your fear is dominant and a life ruled by fear is akin to a constant game of ”dodge-ball” perhaps you might entertain the notion that you are the one throwing the ball a rigid life is stiff and breakable and flexibility is a good place…

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commitment

commitment: commitment is a scary word,makes me think of fences and doors but what i want i cannot get if i’m not willing to commit i want to trust you and i want you to trust me, i want to be respected and feel like i’m free the truth shouldn’t…

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leave a little skin

no matter where i have been i leave a little skin that’s the way it’s supposed to be i give to you and you give to me so as you remember me passing through you will know part of you is me and part of me is you leave a…

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denying the obvious

seems strange when we look back at the things we change in our lives why we took so long to accept the obvious a child will learn that a square peg won’t fit in a round hole and yet as adults we obviously forget and try to do so over…

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a place for you

sometimes we feel like we are lost and that is often after we have been tossed by this world or people in it, but this is just a test and when we look at it like this we see there is something to be learned and people where just playing…

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SO WITHOUT/SO WITHIN

don’t look around and wonder what went down we arrange our world and if it’s upside down ………………..it’s not that hard to turn it around so without, so within i see myself in others and i stop and shake my head some get it quickly and some ignore the signs…

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the most important thing i ever said

the most important thing i ever said that opened my heart and un-clogged my head were three simple words that have kept me fed…………………………….”i don’t know” doesn’t make me a fool, rather makes me smart that i can be honest and listen to others impart knowledge they have learned along the…

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hope that is enough/for paul J

you come and we sit and you share with me things going on in your life i try to listen and bridle my mouth because you pay no attention to suggestions i make retracting and saying it isn’t that bad after you say you are living in hell i suppose you…

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A Friend I Call God

i have a fiend that i call God and He continues to amaze me often i feel his companionship as i go about my day and sometimes He just tags along and sometimes He leads the way i appreciate how He operates, and to my demise I often get my…

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without blame, without shame/we label ourselves

the great pastime not only in our country but in all countries, is assigning blame and shame there are those who commit acts over and over and there is no resolution nor rehabilitation for them……………………..just a fact but others, who for whatever reasons we deem their justifications adequate or not,…

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