a poem is a sermon
Believe it: in a moment’s time, what plans you’ve made can all unwind and with a splash of turpentine your canvas is again a blank. No matter the expense and time in pigment, brushes, sweat and wine, no other act is as sublime: your canvas is again a blank. Perhaps it’s opportunity: to start again, […]
What is this thing life? Even stuck still in amber the passage of time remains. What use is living? Even the largest river remembers the breeze touching. What is this thing life? Keeping track of each minute wastes yet another minute. 30 MAR 2017 © 2017, John Litzenberg. All rights reserved.
Let loose the chains that bind you to the past; though they restrict, they cannot hold you fast. The future is not set; no die is cast. Whatever plans and schemes you make, don’t last; tomorrow’s rain and sun mind no forecast. What is to come, will come, no matter what; a shut door cannot […]
How simple it seems to be born again: to never reach the stage of an adult, but each time that you feel a growing pain, to plead no contest and avoid the fault, accepting being only just a child with no responsibility to age, nor consequence for acting dumb and wild besides the reprimand of […]
This is the morning of the first day; nothing much remains of yesterday except some dust in the clay on the wheel, a flew flecks of shadow in the gray. This is the morning of moving on; what happens now is already gone, chaff on today’s mown lawn blown by a breeze that has no […]
Back out of all this now too much for us, Back in a time made simple by the loss Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather – Robert Frost Back out? How far? To what remove? What will that further distance prove – that some great reset of […]
To say positive thinking breeds success is to a point the truth – well, more or less. Reality, however, would suggest what matters more is really openness: acceptance of what comes as being blessed with more experience and evidence that life provides in both pleasure and stress instructions for achieving happiness; that seeing plus and […]