It’s funny when you remember
Mistakes that you have made
Moments with your past loved ones
As time moves on they usually fade
But sometimes in a dream
The mind will reflect
Reviewing the old memories
You now seem to neglect
Awaking to what is here and now
Can benefit you greatly
Being mindful in the present
We can extinguish “What have you done for me lately?”
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DCG
According to the young hedonist folly
Pleasure will always last
But with age and experience
This idea will fade into the past
How many errors of judgement
Does it take for us to learn?
When all is said and done
To whom shall we turn?
According to Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living
For the parent and the child
It’s all in the giving
For every point of view
Our willingness to express
Our need to find some meaning
Just what will we confess?
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DCG
I use my words in poem
To express what I feel and think
I use language and convention
As I place them down in ink
I share these thoughts to the world
As some may find meaning in my reflections
You can validate or you can falsify
I’m in this to make connections
Poetic digital philosophy
Seems to be my ware
Like open conversation in a coffee shop
Or discussion in the public town square
Humans have not changed much
Our need to belong and our need to share
The decades, the centuries, the millenniums
We are bound in the want to bare
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DCG
You cannot bargain with truth
There is no negotiation
Only what is
No sophist pseudo-narration
Too many people are lost in words
Our language begets confusion
The argument now before them
Seduces their conclusion
Chuang Tzu from a butterfly
Awakening from a dream
Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man
What can we really say?
If indeed we can?
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DCG
Find some appreciation
In others that you disagree
Recognize similarities
Even if in small degree
We must be our own counsel
With our conversational fashion
Do not emotionalize an argument
Step back from your passion
To acknowledge another view
Is a skill all must learn
Only we decide what we think
And who’s trust we must earn
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DCG
If you are depressed you are living in the past.
Lao Tzu
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.
Where do we focus our attention?
Events that happen in the past?
Not attending to the moment
Reliving something we cannot change leaves us aghast
To try and predict the future
Always in a state of suspense
A misguided focus
Always living in self-defense
To live in the now
As there is no other choice
Releases our only freedom
Given to our inner voice
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DCG
I see examples of what not to become
In people almost every day
Life in my community
There is so much to survey
But one must remember
In the same accord
People can be beautiful
There is much not to be ignored
Cynicism cannot be sustainable
As broken hearts can be mended
For every cynic found
Another optimist is apprehended
The human condition
remains perplexed
Those who may deceive themselves
Those who are vexed
The human spirit
On a path of discovery
Will find an answer
That may lead to recovery
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DCG
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