All Alterations Avoided

Passionate,Intense...and quite disturbing

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
-Shakespeare

Musings over a glass of wine

One of my efforts at poetry...Worse to follow:-)

Candles burning bright,
And across their quivering light,
Half shadow and half human
You entice me on to the night.

Ever walking this thin line,
Between daylight and moonshine,
Is it you flickering in the wind...
or is the wine?

Seems to me
Things are never what they seem to be
Are you who you think you are
Or what I see?

What do you live for?

Hmmm. I was sitting on my verandah which caught the sun. I was sitting the peace,watching the green leaves of the trees wave in the hot afternoon breeze. The only sound was the whir of the fan blades. As I come up for air from the book I was reading,my mind registered that this moment is what life is all about-for me. To be in a state of peace,doing what you like best,where all the world is contained in that second of deep and abiding peace,of serene grace. During these moments,I dont have to think of my faults and foibles,or of my endless need for material things.

At these moments,I feel one with the world,wordlessly caught up in the rythm of the universe itself. That is when I forget the "I". So insignificant. Sometimes its painful to see how we refuse to acknowledge the truth- most of what we do is insignificant.

My grandmother died recently-I was close to her and she was a nice lady. But as life picks up and goes on,I was reminded of this-though I really dont know who said it:

It amazes me how human beings live as if they will never die and die as if they never lived.

So I decided to live and here another surprise awaited me. It was not all about the dress I really needed,or the perfume I must have or the house to equal my cousins/friends. Its something unique to each person. For me,I decided to care for the other people in my life. Really care not the selfish love that is more concerned with ones own wants and comforts.

Another thought helped me. Mary Angelou says-People will forget what you do and what you say. But they will never forget how you made them feel.

So I am on a crusade to be more conscious of others,to make each of one of the folks I know realize that they are accepted and cared for. And that is one of the legacies I hope to leave behind.

A poem that can change your life

I have a print out of this poem on my desk at work...it inspires me everytime my spirits start to flag.

Iwill not die an unlived life.

I will not live in fear

of falling or catching fire.

I choose to inhabit my days,

to allow my living to open me,

to make me less afraid,

more accessible,

to loosen my heart

until it becomes a wing,

a torch, a promise.

I choose to risk my significance;

to live so that which came to me as seed

goes to the next as blossom

and that which came to me as blossom,

goes on as fruit.
fully alive - dawna markova