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Friday, 07 February
Surrender

surrender to the currents that sweep you away
and do thier will to you
for you have no control over them
nor where you are taken
or where you end up

this is called destiny

surrender to the power of this journey
and know
where ever you go
where ever you end up
everything is okay

this is called faith

surrender to the joys
this journey brings
and to the pains
for to endure both
with love

this is called living



Comments

Hi Paul, i'm not a big poetry fan cuz i feel people use it to mask their feelings. It's all left for the reader to interpret for himself. To me "living" is what comes into your head and acting upon it with your own individualized set of morals in the back ground.i.e You say to yourself,"can I live with what I'm about to do and can handle the outcome"? If you say "yes", you live, if you wonder what if , it eats at you .

Posted by: Deanna on February 28, 2003 10:00 PM

Those We Love

They say the world is rond-and yet I often think it square,
So many little hurts we get
From corners here and there;
But there's one truth in life I've found
While journeying East and West
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow to those we love the best.

Author unknown

Posted by: Whitney on March 2, 2003 01:00 PM

Hi Deanna. I'm sure some folks lie with poetry, but I still see it as a predominantly honest form of communication. It doesn't pay enough to attract hustlers and anyone who isn't leading "The examined life..." wouldn't bother to write. Of course that's just my oppinion and the nice thing about this Corner is that, everyone's thoughts are welcome.

Follows: a poem or song that came from Finland. I thought it was timely and insightful, but I don't know, by whom it was written.
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Finlandia-Song of Peace

This is my song, O God of all the nations,
A song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is,
Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;
But other hearts in other lands are beating.
With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.

My country's skies are bluer than the ocean,
And sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine.
But other lands have sunlight too and clover,
And skies are ev'rywhere as blue as mine,
Oh hear my song, thou god of all the nations,
A song of peace for their land and for mine.

May truth and freedom come to every nation.
May peace abound where strife has raged so long,
That each may seek to love and build together
A world united, righting every wrong,
A world united in its love of freedom
Proclaiming peace together in one song!

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Sounds good to me.
Peace and love,
Whitney

Posted by: Whitney on March 20, 2003 07:17 AM

Incredible Paul! You probably don't remember me in the forum. I commented about the irrisistable-looking beer you were holding in your hand! Very cute picture...Cooper's, right? It's been a long time since I commented on anything.We have 4 children all between the ages of 8 years and 11 months! Enjoying every minute of it. This sight is so heart-warming, so mesmerizing, and so inspirational for any soul that reads it...come to think of it, doesn't every moment count in
life, whether good or bad? Destiny...living the moment, enduring pain or pleasure, riding a spiritual wave not knowing where and when it's going to land. " Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen". Peace and prosperity to you and your family...

Posted by: Tara on June 24, 2003 10:36 AM

I just wanted to let you know that this poem is beautiful. It is awesome in its simplicity. Very Beautiful!

~Casey

Posted by: Casey on April 4, 2004 03:12 PM

This is my favorite. Fate or Destiny puts us where we are in life I believe and everything works out to our advantage. Thirty years ago my husband was working on his Ph.D. in Mathematics. I was supporting us and he had been going to school for almost 10 years. It was an extremely hard time for us financially and emotionally. He wanted to teach at a University when he finished, but he needed that Ph.D. to do it. After years of work the committee told him that he needed to do one more year work and frankly we did not have the money to do it. We were both worn out and called it quits. Over the years we have both harbored great resentment at the committee because of this and he was not able to teach. He did go to work for NASA and loves his job there. Last month he had a heart attack and almost died. Last night we were talking about the situation. If by chance he had gotten that Ph.D. 30 years ago he would have been working in a small college town somewhere. He would not have been near the doctor that saved his life. Time put us in this place, at this time so that he could live. I guess in life you have to "ride the wave" and see where it take you, but don't get mad if it doesn't take you where you wanted to go.

Good Luck Paul. Ride the Wave.

Posted by: Jo(In Texas) on May 10, 2004 10:04 PM

I tried posting here once and it didn't take so I will try again.

This Poem is especially touching to me. Fate or Destiny takes us on life's journey and takes us where we should go not where we want to go necessarily.

Thirty years ago my husband was in school working on his Ph.D. in Mathematics. He wanted to be a teacher at a university, but he needed that Ph.D. to do it. I was supporting us and had been for 10 years and they were very lean times financially and emotionally. After working for years on his research and paper the committee told him that he needed to work at least one more year to finish. We frankly did not have the money and were emotionally exausted from everything. He ended up with an A.B.D. (all but dissertation) which at that time was not good enough to become a teacher (today it is). Anyway he went to work at NASA.

Yesterday I was looking on the net and found the professor that had, at the time we thought, ruined us for life. He has his own business now and lives in a small Arizona town.

A month ago my husband had a heart attack and I was telling him last night that if he had gotten his Ph.D. at the time he wanted then we would have been living in a small college town. The surgeon that saved his life would not have been there and he would have died. It was fate or destiny set into motion a long time ago that put us here and saved his life.

You have to ride the waves of life and just see where they take you.

So GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALWAYS PAUL! Ride the waves.

Posted by: Jo(In Texas) on May 10, 2004 10:34 PM

This is really cool. I think it should be required reading for ALL!
Anna

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