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1. susyc says:

   November 20, 2010 at 1:49 pm

   Keeping On

   Sometimes keeping going is the only thing to do.
   Just put one foot in front of the other
   Even when all you want to do is

   STOP

   And jet off, uncoiling this mortal coil, snapping the cord
   That holds you here on this
   Terrestrial ball
   Especially when you’re not having
   Much of a ball.

   Sometimes I have felt myself leaving
   When I look up
   At the stars or sun and moon.
   After all, I have been there before
   Looking out over the backside
   Of the moon at Orion.

   It’s nice up there.

   Still something keeps telling me “No, not yet—
   There is much left to do and have
   And let go of,
   So it will be awhile.

   But when I learn to make each day
   One long song of Praise,
   When doing what I don’t like to do is
   Sacred

   Even if it’s nothing but lying flat on my back
   Staring at that ceiling in that nursing home
   Making a complete Heaven of boredom
   Finding God in smaller
   And smaller things

   Till this body becomes translucent with age
   And evaporates into
   Living through my death and death
   And deaths after death.

   Besides. The more of me that dies
   The clearer my sight becomes
   And beauties I never saw before I see now,
   Like the soft-shelled turtle a foot wide
   That lives in the ditch,
   Or the coyote crossing the road at dusk,
   That sandy haired trickster,
   Moving like Baryshnikov,
   Or the colors in the clouds.

   When I could leave, I wasn’t grounded
   But neither was I finished being made
   And now I know I’ll never be finished

   So, “No,” I say to myself
   When I’m really down and out and
   I want to leave.
   “Not yet.”

   Let’s just see what’s left,
   What’s left waiting to be born
   Out of this piece of death
   This peace of death

   Till the last breath whispers “Now,”
   And I am ready to go
   Birthed into death
   And gone home to my love.
2. susyc says:

   November 20, 2010 at 1:45 pm

   That must be stardust on that leaf!
3. Patty says:

   November 19, 2010 at 6:01 am

   What a beautiful photo! This reminds me of childhood, and reaching for the stars.
4. Len Wallick says:

   November 19, 2010 at 12:12 am

   THAT’s what i’m talkin’ `bout – thank you for publishing a picture worth a thousand words.