Category Archives: Contemplation

Always Planned

Contemplating absence…

A friend of mine wrote…

   Five Seven Five

Damn! My head won’t stop
Thinkin’ ’bout five seven five
Will it ever stop?

   -Fred Jones-

Pulling me out of my preoccupation and the doldrums…

Now again inspired…

I wrote…

   Always Planned

Sabbaticals not
Always planned sometimes they just
Find me all caught up

   -gl-

Contemplating being gone too long…

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And Biding

Contemplating time…

   And Biding

Sitting by the heat
Rubbing my hands together
Flexing frozen feet

Pondering the time
And biding it as well I
Find moments sublime

   -gl-

Contemplating patience…

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Drifts Undiscovered

Contemplating wonder…


   Drifts Undiscovered

Now a light dusting
Of snow
Has fallen and gently blows
About in soft swirls trusting

The breeze to
Send it where it will
Hare and there ground uncovered

Bordered by fresh tiny drifts undiscovered
Where as yet no footsteps fell
The landscape renews

Itself and before again the people come rushing
Peace knows
A place and life flows
Gently and’s not quite so crushing

   -gl-


Contemplating life…

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In the Distance

Contemplating clarity…

   In the Distance

Tower of Babel
Looms in the distance above
All that we may tell

   -gl-

Contemplating understanding, or rather the mis…

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Through the Mind

Contemplating meditation…

   Through the Mind

Meditation is
Emptiness filling the mind
Then the state at risk

Muscles burn novel
Thoughts meander through the mind
Working the shovel

   -gl-

Contemplating clarity…

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This Is Routine

Contemplating experience…

   This Is Routine

People forget when
They’ve not seen it for a while
First snow once again

And the drivers got
No sense of this is routine
Whoa, slippery spots…

   -gl-

Contemplating how can we forget…?

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