Stillness Speaks, Unlocking the Power of Presence (Popularity:  )
Stillness speaks
Quiets my soul to keep
Frees me to not think
That's right, no thinking
Oops, are you thinking?
I know it's hard to stop
Since the mind is persisting
It seems to continuously
Be fighting and resisting
Precious sacred solitude
The power of presence
Captivating effervescence
Intoxicating aliveness
Invigorating in stillness
An irony that stumps us
In a society that says do
In a culture pressuring you
To always perform and act.
How pleasant it truly is
To withdraw from all that
Sit quietly and meditate
Go within and ...
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Faith = Prejudice (Popularity: )
I believe
I just want to believe
So I Believe.
What else is there, everybody believes?
I can believe anything that I want to believe.
I'm not fake, I have common sense
And I'm not like everyone else.
I have never seen what I believe, but it's not fake.
How do I know? Because I believe.
Logic, reason, yeah, yeah, I have those
But I can believe what I want to believe.
What I want is what is true
It's true because ...
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Christopher Okigbo - Looking Back at His Short-lived Life and Taking Stock of His Poetic Legacy (Popularity: )
Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo one of the earliest Nigerian poets, who within his short lifetime, for he died fighting for the independence of Biafra, established himself as a central figure in the development of modern African poetry,has remained one of the most important African poets to write in English. Generally acknowledged as a master poet in spite of a complexity drawn from obscure allusions and symbolism, he has even been named ...
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The Family At Christmas (Popularity: )
There is nothing more precious nothing more dear
Than God's gift of your family year after year
Each member is priceless far beyond compare
So gifted so talented quite unique and rare
Family at Christmas is much more than you see
More than the lights shining the gifts or the tree
Its time to look back on our gift from above
The purest conception of faith hope and love
The most beautiful baby was born as foretold
In himself ...
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Papa Augusto's Cosmic Journey (a Poem) (Popularity: )
"I was just there;
I don't know how I got there...."
That is what Papa Augusto
said to me at the dinner table
this evening (New Years Day-2008).
"I asked the Lord (he said),
'why did you send me to a
planet without people?"
Before he could follow-up
on the question (or perhaps
ask the question again), the Lord
had sent a few spacecraft
his way; they were now
landing, and a number of
folks were dropped off in
what papa called ...
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Almighty America (Popularity: )
American hyperbole far greater than the Super Bowl
The true axis of evil and insidious mole taking its toll
The propaganda machine which speaks untruthfully
Masquerades arrogantly, maximizes the media cleverly
Paints a picture falsely to sway the populace wholeheartedly
Pushing freedom propaganda domestically to expand outwardly
Strategically locating and setting coordinates geographically
Then creating and demonizing a resource rich enemy
While peddling fear and homeland security to the citizenry
Beat the war drums furiously and ...
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Mozart - Originality and Boldness (Popularity: )
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a boy wonder!
A miracle born of God from the start
Your musical output a divine art
Timeless and forever cherished
Alternating moods most vivacious
Your cultural experiences numerous
Marvelously influential and inspirational
Foundationally immensely impartational
As you did listen, learn, and absorb
Evolve and grow magnificently
With boldness and originality
Arising all the more with vitality
Profound contrasts and higher unity
Agitation coupled with surprises
Attending to the smallest details
In each masterful symphony
Your departure from small Salzburg
Where did reside ...
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Dedication To All (Popularity: )
***To My Friends Who Are ***
SINGLE
Love is like a butterfly .
The more you chase it , the more it eludes you.
But if you just let it fly, it will come to you when you least expect it.
Love can make you happy but often it hurts ,
but love's only special when you give it to someone who is really worth it.
So take your time and choose the best.
***To My Friends Who ...
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Where Is the Sun (Popularity: )
Today, I stood at the bus stop somewhere in London and my feet froze. I thought it was summer, or so the official time has been telling me. "British Summer time". What has happened. Where is the summer? The weekend should have been a warm one, one bank holiday gone another bank holiday coming soon. It is exactly as it says, a holiday for the banks and no one else... ...
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Fluidity (Popularity: )
To communicate to someone else, one's truest, most inner feelings, is a very difficult task to say the least. It is a task that is rendered virtually impossible, when the use of mere words is the only medium available. How can a person even begin to relate to another, the complex range of emotions, that like some abstract river springing from the soul, flows through the heart and swirls through ...
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