On A Limb by Lewis Truman Elliott
Go out on a limb
For once, actually believe you matter
This one time, negative isn’t a factor
For all you know, it’s beautiful here-after.
Usually, you worry.
Usually, it’s bad.
There isn’t any hurry, so why not stay glad.
Why not keep what you had.
You were fine just 10 minutes ago.
What happened?
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It doesn’t matter now.
All that matters is when you’ll take your final bow and when you do
Will it be for your performance of life, or your performance of
Death
Will you hold on for the sweet taste of doubt, or will you
experience the spice of possibility
Will you go out on a limb?
Gloomy Colorless Days by Jackie Treadway
The air smells damp
The sun is hidden away
between the clouds
What grey sorrowful clouds
Letting Go by Jackie Treadway
it’s hard letting go of the past
but some things were never meant to last
one day i’ll bury the emotions
of ever holding you so dear
it took me a long time to realize
i was holding onto nothing
Blank Face by Jackie Treadway
your blank stares
leave me wondering
why
i wonder if i was too damn
needy
for communication
for inspiration
for admiration
maybe i wanted your hands
to gently caress my body
like a sculptor does his art
Night Driving by: Tess Perdue
The stars are closer
In this moment.
The line
Between earth and infinity
Is blurred, abolished.
This inky blackness
Envelops, only broken
By the cruel falling stars
Of headlights.
My hands –
Are they truly
Connected to reality?
I cannot feel anything,
Floating in the infinite abyss
Of nighttime solitude
Except my beating heart
And the hum of the engine.
Omniscience Beyond Knowing by: Blake Hawkins
How can we comprehend how He sees to the end?
Created for a glimpse of perfection just to see it end.
The tree promised life but only bred strife;
all at once the care of sin bore death in
which ravaged, pillaged, and plundered our condition.
Curses came, and Eden ended.
With God, we walked no more.
We toiled and worked and became sore.
Both Physically and Spiritually
we longed for continuity.
Water weakened, but still sin remained.
Through Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon
God’s people still lived on,
searching for the One to end strain.
So that both body and mind might find relief.
Messiah was mistaken, but death was damned.
Though death causes separation, it now gives a choice
to live and let lie or to take up a cross.
The call for evangelism’s voice
rises for all to hear.
God’s plan from the first
is now coming into fulfillment.
Clutter: To Be Free Of It by: Rev. Dr. Keith L. Marsden
My downstairs closet needs attention this year So much clutter that little can be found
Move some things to other places and it only seems to move the clutter around
Moving around is not moving forward is there a place or should some of it be lost
After all if not used in a year then I should toss it out give it away for there is no cost.
Minds work similar to closet cleaning, they tend to displace that which is no longer used.
We humans tend to hang on tenaciously to things not needed, words spoken the wrong way.
Jesus taught to drop our silly arguments, our passive ways of revenge so joy comes to the soul
Buddha taught to do right work, right living, right thinking, and our minds will clear.
No matter the jargon of any religion, philosophy, or spirituality (jargon is its own kind of clutter)
The great ones of the past: Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and many more than to mention
Are those great guides who lead us into that which is beyond, helping us listen to self being the
Gentle sweepers with the broom that truly helps us free ourselves of our own mind’s Clutter.