Qoheleth Haiku 3:5

 

 

⁵a time to throw away stones,

and a time to gather stones together;

a time to embrace,

and a time to refrain from embracing;

 

If we speak of stones

We gather stones for building

Discard to clear land

 

If we speak of sex

Sex has an essential role

So does abstinence

 

Live life in balance

In sexual encounters

In building houses

 

To hold another

In life sustaining embrace

Dispels loneliness

 

We need solitude

If we would know another

We must know ourselves

 

©2012, Qoheleth

 

Picture Credit: William Johnson Photography and activerain.com 

I AM Here

When light broke into nothing

With a Bang that no ear heard

When Order sprang from Chaos

With the speaking of a Word

I AM here

When a single cell of life

Oozed from a primal sea

And evolved in adaptations

To all you know to be

I AM here

In the sunrise on the mountains

In the sunset on the sea

In the pain and joy of childbirth

In the prison with the free

I AM here

When nail or phallus pierces

The flesh of innocence

And the flame burns the children

In war’s senseless offence

I AM here

In your deepest loneliness

Of homelessness and cold

Between the silks of opulence

A voice of silence in your soul

I AM here

©Stan Sanford

August 30, 2011

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