"After a While"

After a while you learn
the subtle difference between
holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn
that love doesn't mean leaning
and company doesn't always mean security.
And you begin to learn
that kisses aren't contracts
and presents aren't promises
and you begin to accept your defeats
with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of woman, not the grief of a child
and you learn
to build all your roads on today
because tomorrow's ground is
too uncertain for plans
and futures have a way of falling down
in mid-flight.
After a while you learn
that even sunshine burns
if you get too much
so you plant your own garden
and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone
to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
you really are strong
you really do have worth
and you learn
and you learn
with every goodbye, you learn...

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7月28日

forget?

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forget?

FORGET ???

forget??

I can only hope I will never forget again the lessons of my Heart's teaching, that to lay
aside the bleeding pen of my now and again rush to trust
leaves only deeply grieving, with no quick way of leaving
the memories of another careless unjust
which seems to gather no dust
just the edgy ripping of another
heart of gold dripping
breath by breath
that only leads to
more deserts of pain
reloaded with
Alone again.

~rom~

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7月21日

heart trails

Follow the trails of your heart,
laid down in the distance
of some long ago,
where you continue
from start to end and start again.

Follow the trails of your heart
Though the Way be broken
and the trials you would not go,
are where you were given
That unexpected token.

Upon which is written
Your every Life's part,
no Truth concealed from the
Soul of One who feels.

Follow the trails of your heart
with new colors streaming
enchanting strength to heal new Being.
Wear your courage without fear
keeping True a Promise,
albeit unclear.

Follow the trails of your heart
Though the trials bend your path
and spill with tears your Vision back.
desperate for the sight of love you seek;
you are beckoned into some
darkened Star Way deep.

You feel limp and mumbley,
A shattering mass of pooling glass,
Pulling your WAY to
Some lonelier fed desolate bay.

Follow on, with tears streaming and fears daunting
the immeasurable joys of all the years
and heartbreaks of ‘begin again’

(Can you remember how many there have been?)
That the Light has brought you here again?
Haunted by an unknown coming, some further
Far-off drumming, never heard in this sphere of clay.

Somehow I found your trailing red feet,
Cut deep and hard
With razor sharp grief.

Now rest in silence beneath Orion’s Keep
While we breathe to linger this fragile peace.

It's never too late to learn the mystic's song,
A song in which we all belong, none left out,
No judgment rendered; our Soul content
And duly surrendered.

To move among the peopled trouble
That is the chance we take to break free
From the heavy hung stone around our neck.
We enter the storied Dreams
born by neglect.

where Ideals lead the way
forgiving any right or wrong
simply know that we belong

even as the fires consume
our melting place,
we continue the trails, even,
or most especially when we fail

it is in the failing trails
that we may catch a Vision new,
as flames alone reveal
the Truth of me alongside you.

Crushing the withered leaves
within our hand
we let go the old ways,
Knowing that in the

somewhere of our days
we will, with thankful hearts,
understand.

~rom~

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7月18日

yesterday, depressed I lay

yesterday,

i lay dying
hoping death would carry me far away.

but then my friend called
and asked how was i today?

i could not speak for the tears
were spilling all over my words

and the breath needed to give them sound
choked in my throat and tightly bound

until i could say nothing,
but she heard it anyway

so today i am yet alive
and question how or why

did i come to have the love
of one good friend ?

who reached across the distance
and through her voice, held my hand

comforted me with words that had wings
making me see the sweeter, kinder things

and, yet another friend, whom i had called
(because i knew she'd understand it all)
responded with " i'll be there soon"

and as i lay back upon my soaked pillow
i knew a Grace was yet upon my heart

in my Soul and not a thing apart
and while i do not know the reason why

i let that rest for another time
when the Grace within knows the time is best

until then, i'll live today
each measured breath, just a---way
for the time when Grace will come
and gently lift me from where I lay.

-rom-







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there is a place...

there is a place...

where dreams come true

where the sky is always blue

where someone is always waiting for you

where laughter is heard and all sadness is gone

where everyone has a friend so no one is alone again

where the more you give away, the more you have
and the better you feel

where all life is more precious than color coated stones,
or dirty old
pieces of paper with numbers not real

where people tell stories that last longer than you do

where others always show respect and kindness too

where no one lies so gladly that what they say hurts you badly

where human beings are, like your favorite pet, always true
and aren't afraid of covering you with loving, wet kisses,
and when you are gone, is soo sad for you are what it misses

where everyone has plenty to eat, a solid hand to hold,
a nice warm shelter when it gets cold, and
where you are loved all so much more as you get old

where finding the best of anything is not an impossible thing
and you don't have to go far,
'cause right there in the mirror, is where you are.

where everyday is filled with music and wonder;
and dancing in the rain lights up
the rainbows that fill up the sky--
so the biggest pots of gold
are the ones shining brightly in your eye.

there is a place for you and you and, you, too

and to live there, you must care enough
to sacrifice what you love best
and watch it multiply, in all the rest.

there is a place waiting on you...
where you will hear the hummingbird sing;
as the Grace she bears in full,
pours purely from her chipped cup...
carried beneath her broken wing.

(and in case you wondered,
that is why she sings)

-rom-

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Pearls of Wisdom by Dave Berry

enlightenment from another source...SO, lighten UP!!

Pearls of Wisdom

"Fourteen Things That It Took Me Over
50 Years To Learn" by Dave Barry

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
You should not confuse your career with your life.
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
Never lick a steak knife.
The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.
A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)
Your friends love you anyway.

Thought for the day: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Added to Lucidcafé on April 28, 2003

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7月15日

NATIONAL ID's

Another State Rejects National ID’s

June 17th, 2007

The State of Tennessee has taken a bold stand against “Real ID“. It is great to see that there is some backbone left and with the courage of each individual state to make stands for freedom then there breeds hope of a future without barbed wire. You can read the following about Tenn:

NASHVILLE - The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee (ACLU-TN) today praised the Tennessee General Assembly for their bipartisan rejection of the REAL ID Act, which would require all Tennesseans to give up sensitive personal information which would be stored in a national database, to pay higher licensing fees, and to stand in long lines at the Department of Motor Vehicles. The joint resolution (SJR248) criticizes the federal law’s unfunded mandate and its threats to privacy, security, and the Tennessee Constitution.“Implementation of REAL ID would crush our privacy rights, drown the state in red tape, and make all of us less safe,” said ACLU-TN Executive Director Hedy Weinberg.
Nationwide there is a growing rebellion against REAL ID. Tennessee becomes the 16th state to pass legislation opposing the Act. Passed in 2005, the REAL ID Act requires the states to produce standardized driver’s licenses and to store the drivers’ personal information in nationally connected databases – creating a de facto national ID card. By placing this information in one central nationwide database, REAL ID makes the information more vulnerable to identity theft and misuse.
The law requires states to begin issuing these licenses by December 31, 2009, but it did not set aside enough funds to make it possible. In Tennessee, the initial estimate for implementing REAL ID is more than $100 million dollars.
Calling the program a national ID, the State Legislature rejects REAL ID because it violates the rights and liberties of Tennesseans guaranteed under the constitutions of the State of Tennessee and the United States. SJR248 urges the Tennessee Congressional delegation to support measures to repeal the REAL ID Act, and states that “there be no implementation of the REAL ID Act until full funding is provided by the Federal Government.”
“Our legislature has taken a bold and admirable step by rejecting REAL ID. They recognize the very real threat to our privacy rights and they did the right thing by opposing implementation of REAL ID,” Weinberg said.
Unclear who wrote this but it was in the Knoxnews