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Post hike

 

Post hike

 

Post hike

My mind happily exhausted

Or just an airhead

 

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Do I have a mind?

Or is it just

Chemicals, blood & meat?

 

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No one at home

The poet’s house

Is empty

 

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Springtime glory

Crow flying

Against the blue

 

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This OCD sufferer

Hangs on to everything

Unable to forget –

Why do you think I drink?

 

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I don’t know if I like

This post hike

Mental relaxation?

 

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When did the police uniforms change, & why wasn’t it big news? They now look hostile, militaristic. Doesn’t this expedite confrontations? Anyway, the old ones looked friendlier. Maybe back to a time when people respected one another more?

 

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The attitude that might will overcome is the opposite of Lao Tzu’s, that the soft overcomes the hard.

Big weapons lacking wisdom/perspective.

 

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Purple irises drenched in sun

Inexplicably popping up

In my backyard

 

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T shirt on the line, for tomorrow’s walk, wet from today’s hike. It’s only gonna get sweaty.

 

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Take your time butterfly

My car’s not in a rush

 

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The reason I decided against being

A delivery driver

Was the butterflies I’d kill

 

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I guess what I was saying earlier, was that I kind of like my intense, hyperactive mind. I don’t believe that Pooh Bear is the greatest hero of them all. There is work to be done beyond the self & peace of mind.

I live a privileged life, therefore, I have a responsibility to the world to use my gifts for its upliftment (to use a reggae ism).

I believe a balance should be struck between attachment & non attachment. When a house is on fire, you don’t sit by & meditate. By the same token, if you’re always putting out fires, you get fatigued & fatalities can in fact increase. This is the reason I left teaching a year & a half ago.

Patrick White once said about the difference between simplicity & simple mindedness: that simplicity is arrived at after much hard work, mistakes & going up wrong alleyways, until one eventually arrives at the simple. Obviously, a paraphrase. White was a virtuoso. Mum had a newspaper cutting of the actual quote we both liked, perhaps lost to posterity?

Anyway, simplicity in this case reads for wisdom. Still, maybe we GET it, maybe we DON’T. I’ve gained insights generally by listening, I’m not sure I’ve gained wisdom?

 

 

Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2024.

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