As So The Wise Do Live

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Haiku beginning

Green Tara begins singing

Welcome better days…

Morning Sun ends night

Inviting eyes to Nature

Seeking true health’s light

Try sight-see dreaming

What Nature does bring winging

For nurturing Self.

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Filtering out non-truths

Following better curiosity fit

Seeking saner trail-heads

Where Cheshire cats... refuse to sit.

Practicing into a more perfected me

One learning to truly, truly ‘See’.

Seeing, a higher art to learn… to be

Where ‘here’ surrounds one as finally free.

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See the Elements

Working in Nature’s own life

Muses and angels balancing strife.

From the darkest Deeps

Energies of directions

And wildest chaos… stirs

Where darker self

Flounders, as cast aside

By better nature becoming

As he, this other, dark gray in black

Stays there swimming until he sinks

With the deep claiming him

For he is...

Not a very happy fellow

Who likes to be bothered.

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He is like an old, weathered habit

That one has to feed

Less he ramble fierce in chaos

Angry, blind, and powerful

Using remorse as his fuel

Feeding terrors with his angers

To quench unending thirsts through time.

‘What have I done’, he screams

For in the dark swamps

There is so little salvation

Sighing silently, a wisdom seed sprouts…

Then dies, recognizing

‘Here has no home’.

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The Cosmos between...

Holding Space, Place, and Time

Thankfully, is filled with Life’s rhymes

Giving at least places for living dreams to find

Wandering into better times

Though knowing not exactly where.

So, search, and you will find…

Depths of persuasion

Processing good information

There...

Releasing for the better remainder of us

Fluffier rests.

Leaving him supported, curious as I

By all that lies beyond understanding

Bending, toward one’s own true need, not lies

There to practice wise fairness

Selfishness merging with growth,

Within sharper awareness.

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See… practicing kindness

And the five forgivenesses

Grants credibility

To one’s responsibility…

Asking forgiveness, with change

Giving full forgiveness, without remorse

Forgiving self, with grace

Forgiving reluctance to change once

Forgiving twice, within stern resolve...

To embrace change, or admit weakness

Leaving the act of asking forgiveness

Still an issue.

All within selfless duty...

Serving Nature’s management

Where assigned responsibility lies.

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Hear now, planet Earth’s mantra

‘Everything in its season’

Children teasing through the ages...

‘See this, see something new’

For curiosities thrive like morning dew

Constant, ever appearing

Waiting softly for the heat of query

To, in dissipation, offer fresh sweetest secrets

From the bright sparkling sprinkles...

Like early morning golf balls bouncing through

Without shouted ‘4’ warnings

To prepare the resting quiet carpet

For the light of a busy day.

Scattering misty sprays.. such bouncing gifts to find

Showing fresh green grasses underneath

Heaven surely having spent its restful night here.

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Day passes, Night begins, setting Sun’s reason

Inviting eyes back to Dreaming

Searching for better selves, teaming…

Happy, finding truer homes

Leaving others… in darker places

To forever roam.

Giving right penance

To the progress of men

Green Tara’s partners

Along for the ending ride.

bdrusch@12/18/2024