Hey everyone! Kiddo is home from college and there’s just too much going on tonight! I will post a few old poems of mine for you to enjoy. Love to all and I will write Part II of my last post tomorrow!

HERO (from Dru’s collection 1979)

Like the song, Comic Book Hero,
I fee I am sometimes in his world
Always helping others,
Never any rest.
All that I desire in this time passage is to be loved,
To be accepted as I am.
People want to mold me into my very soul.
To own me because they are incomplete.
To be at peace with myself.
To help others,
To be indispensable somewhere.
That is the purpose of love.
That is the secret of happiness.

PERSONAL GROWTH (from Dru’s collection, Christmas, 1988)

I am woman.
I am the lover of many loves.
I am the giver and the receiver.
I am a dragonslayer,
I am woman.
Today I chose to change my life.
Today I chose to take that first step.
Today begins a new me, a re-awakening.
I am woman.
Through physical change, I can grow.
Growth brings emotional change.
Emotional change brings mental change.
Mental change brings spiritual change.
Spiritual change brings peace and harmony in my life.
Peace and harmony allow me total acceptance.
I am strong.
I am woman.

REALITY (from Dru’s collection 1980s)

Can’t you see,
That you’re an escape from reality?
Ah, cookie,
Just another
reflection of cosmic infinity.

LIFE (Buddhist collections – First section, Izumi Shikibu)

The way I must enter
leads through darkness to darkness.
Oh, moon above the mountains’ rim,
please shine a little further on my path.

Birth, old age,
Sickness and death:
From the beginning,
This is the way
Things have always been.
Any thought
of release from this life,
Will wrap you only more tightly
in its snares.
The sleeping person
Looks for a Buddha.
The troubled person
Turns toward meditation.
But the one who knows
That there is nothing to seek,
Knows too that there’s nothing to say.
She keeps her mouth closed.