Category Archives: Life

the world

Posted on May 26, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

At times long gone I’ve flown so high like sunrise in the morn farewelled the beauty of the stars to welcome in the dawn. Today my world has changed a lot but so much bright remains and now I reap … Continue reading →

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A State Of Mind

Posted on May 3, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

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Experiments in Life

Posted on April 4, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

Joy and total wonderment just fly about this place as I watch the intense excitement grow upon her face. An ‘experiment’ is fun to do and just as much to see the wonderment that is a child just lives her … Continue reading →

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Laughter

Posted on April 3, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

Too many never hear it, though its sound can help us heal though children know its rhythm; its love they always feel. It’s a thing become uncommon in this hectic world today; it’s the sound that is the beauty of … Continue reading →

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Meditation & Trains

Posted on March 16, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

Each morning I sit quietly, eyes closed like all the rest but if you broke my slumber I’d never pass the test. For though dawn may be breaking and all around me snore my eyes are closed but mind awake; … Continue reading →

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My Fifty Shades of Grey

Posted on March 2, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

Been there and now I’m over it, those fifty shades of grey; really, what’s the fuss about, we all get old one day. I used to be a mousy brown, then grey bits did appear; pretty soon those grey bits … Continue reading →

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The Search

Posted on March 1, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

The search for life’s true meaning; where am I meant to be? The lifelong quest for ‘culture’; that place where I am me. We came from far across the sea; a hemisphere apart and far off in ‘The Old Country’ … Continue reading →

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Alzheimer’s Way (or Ode To My Zip)

Posted on February 22, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

This zip of mine has problems – it always gets undone as if it thinks what’s in there just needs a bit of fun. It seems that when I look down, it’s always there agape; the cage is always open … Continue reading →

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My Gurus

Posted on February 22, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

I sit beside my Guru; with love her heart’s afire. The wisdom shining from her eyes, to that I do aspire. She holds the deepest wisdom and freely spreads it wide while I bask in her shadow; a truly privileged … Continue reading →

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Our Nature 2

Posted on February 22, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

Fueled by the fire of insatiable greed we wander the earth seeking yet one more feed. The cultures consumed, the wildness laid bare to us simply profit – a part of life’s fare. Our feces is strewn from North to … Continue reading →

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Youth

Posted on February 22, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

I sometimes think that in our youth we search for wisdom – forgetting truth. It stands before us, plain as day and we run off the other way. Those days of questing – much revealed; a mighty crop with bountious … Continue reading →

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Sacridity

Posted on February 22, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

There’s things that I find sacred now as my life’s field I slowly plow; there’s tiny seeds that I must tend as in life’s field my back does bend. So much neglected; left undone – there’s tiny shoots baked in … Continue reading →

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Trinity

Posted on February 22, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

SPIRIT Without all three there can be none for life’s true cycle is undone. No one can be without the other; a bond much more that sister-brother. Good or evil, right or wrong; there are but three parts to my … Continue reading →

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The Sum

Posted on February 22, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

Joyous laughter mixed with tears, this is the sum of all my years. Words have trampled on my soul, those same words have made me whole. Actions that have crushed my heart became the paint of my life’s art. All … Continue reading →

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Our Nature

Posted on February 22, 2015 by a foolhardy florilegium

Fueled by the fire of insatiable greed I see in their eyes unquenchable need built on expectations that cannot be met and rules all unwritten but so firmly set that we’ll all clamber to dizzying heights to consume ever more … Continue reading →

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