Day: July 21, 2016

By sacredness

 

Before we go to bed   we   vegetate
No need for teacher but  a compost heap.
And as we vegetate, we drift to sleep
While in our dreams  our little mind debates

But mostly we’re  unknowing in this dark
Where  God himself may manifest at will.
His dazzling darkness  makes our souls be still
And wait  for strikes by  living ,glowing spark.

But in the morning ,we  come  back to  strife
Take up our work and suffer every stroke.
From sapling to the oldest,strongest oak
Each  must choose again its proper life

Every look we cast at others  strikes
Reflects and shows us what we have become
And when there is no movement,  we are done
Our mind and  heart have chosen what they like.

So in our end we vegetate again
And  no more rise to labour in the day
We  fertilise the fields passed on our way
We show the end of woman and of man.

A  daily round becomes  our life and death.
We  live because  we’re  breathed by sacredness.

 

Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –

   When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
   Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
   The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
   The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.
What is all this juice and all this joy?
   A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning
In Eden garden. – Have, get, before it cloy,
   Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
   Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.

Dark jewels

I have listened to the arguments of fools
I have heard them like a donkey bray
I have looked within and found dark jewels.

I have studied  algebra like Boole’s
I read the works of Euclid and  obeyed
I have listened to the arguments of fools.

I have  been to colleges and schools
I have seen the wolves therein who prey.
I have looked within and found dark jewels

I have earned my knowledge and my tools
I have kept them current day by day
I have listened to the arguments of  fools

I have loved strange men whom I thought cool
I have often felt the need to pray
I have looked within and found dark jewels

 

So we each must fumble  through the day
Knowledge and perception show the way
I have listened to the arguments of fools
I have looked within and found dark jewels.

 

 

 

 

Impartial

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My husband was very impartial
He never cared what food he ate
Kippers with apple pie
Sardines in streams went by
He took it all well, as his fate.

My husband was neutral in conflict
He didn’t mind what others thought
He  listened impartially
And always cautiously
Till up flew a thought  which he caught.

Myself,I am well even handed
The left is as long as it’s broad
The right one is stronger
So it may last longer.
Keep me quite well,my dear Lord.

 

Neutral…. the definition

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ˈnjuːtr(ə)l/
adjective
adjective: neutral
  1. 1.
    not supporting or helping either side in a conflict, disagreement, etc.; impartial.
    “neutral and non-aligned European nations”
    antonyms: biased, partisan, combatant, belligerent
    • belonging to an impartial group or state.
      “the trial should be held on neutral ground”
  2. 2.
    having no strongly marked or positive characteristics or features.
    “her tone was neutral, devoid of sentiment”
    antonyms: provocative, offensive
  3. 3.
    CHEMISTRY
    neither acid nor alkaline; having a pH of about 7.
    “a neutral solution”
  4. 4.
    having neither a positive nor negative electrical charge.
    “live and neutral contacts on plugs”
noun
noun: neutral; plural noun: neutrals
  1. 1.
    an impartial or unbiased state or person.
    “Sweden and its fellow neutrals”
  2. 2.
    pale grey, cream, or beige.
    “classic shades of navy, white, and neutral”
  3. 3.
    a disengaged position of gears in which the engine is disconnected from the driven parts.
    “she slipped the gear into neutral”
  4. 4.
    an electrically neutral point, terminal, conductor, or wire.
Origin
late Middle English (as a noun): from Latin neutralis ‘of neuter gender’, from Latin neuter (see neuter).