Simple Joys

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Very often we wait for bigger things to happen, whether they happen or not, while those that will definitely happen and make us happy enough are right there before us.

Simple Joys

It's best to take heart in simple joys

Than break heart with big dreams.

 

How many of us take in the free breeze blow

And not long for the motored resort?

 

Which of you won't butcher a rooster

When your garden is a pantry of green vegetables?

 

Which of you would shrink to the woman by your side

When another bewitchingly passes you by?

 

Which of you would overlook a wad of money

While you vehemently oppose the theory of chance?

 

Who among you would an intoxicating today

Put off for an uncertain tomorrow?

 

Today is in your face but tomorrow can betray you:

What's yours can always be yours

But what you don't have might never be yours.   

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SpiritSong commented on Simple Joys

01-13-2010

wow!.. Unveiled reality to be sure..very well written abraham.. raw and exposing of the weaknesses we all have to face and deal with on a daily basis... our choices of the seed we plant, bring forth life and beauty into our gardens or ugliness and death... I will choose those seeds of life this day, that me and my house will live, and know The LORDS peace..in Him is the end of sorrows and the beginnings,opening up into streams of fullness of Joy known and expressed.. Well written..very well done...ty abraham.. "SpiritSong"

abraham

01/14/2010

Thanks,SS. I like the 'divinity' you commented on in connection with my work.

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

Walt Whitman, American Poet (1819-1892)

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