Humility is

 

What do we really think of this word,

in modern world absurd,

abused, neglected and oft forgotten,

Humility, a trait list of, at bottom,

not declination of design,

not demur, polite, obscure, 

no defensive bowing,

nor furtive face shading,

but alone on the road,

out up front, on ways not recognised,

dying to self with pain a given,

letting go and doing all,

humility is,

directly explained,

in unpoetic lines,

letting I am do with you, as he will,

will you let I am in?

humbling yourself?

bowing the knee?

and doing as I am will do with you?

let go the manmade dreams,

let go the complex-a-cation,

let go of letting go and,

this time, let go.

Etches Penman

Oxford Corner

Sept 09

edited October Corona 2020

Humility is misdefined misunderstood and hated in halls of 

government or movements or business.

Conspired Events

Giving. Being. Thinking. Having.

Stopping, Going. Playing. Sleeping.

Talking. Smiling. Praying.

                Just Saying,

Eating. Drinking. Paying. Holding. 

Listening. Breathing. Hugging.

                Just Hoping,

Reading. Reaching. Falling. Staying.

                Just Trying,

Loving.

                 Just loving.

Walking. Running. Raining. Cleaning. Breathing. Swimming. Snorkelling. Flying. Imagining.

                                                               Doing.

Etches Penmen,

16th Feb 2019

A Birthday

Belief, Does my life reflect my belief, or do I find myself caught in the silver silent threads of worldly comprise and construct, themselves amoral and deaf and dead? What is my priority and is it my priority? 

Envy (And Bitterness)

 

May bitterness swim away,

an ne'er more been seen this day,

For the salmon out to sea is lost for all ,

And most to me,

Ne’er let me see spawn the horrid hulk,

Of nights forlorn,

With bitter heart and angered grief,

Envy blaming others whilst,

trying for me to elope with relief,

Let’s upstream against the current flow,

with Wisdoms words I don’t yet know,

With her words that will refresh a heart,

And peaceful play in life my part.

Thomas Poe

Singapore 

January 07

Bitterness and perhaps envy can fill oceans but holding on to these 

will not bring peace or win a race or cook a dinner.

edited by Etches October Carona 20

Turbulence

There's instability in the atmosphere!

Small things matter,                now truly they do,

body blow,                             (after blow after blow), 
stand up,                                with friends, arms across your shoulders,

Touch the earth,                      touch reality,

breathe in the sky,                  soul refreshing,

embrace,                                an other,

walk around,                           look over our shoulder,

the construct of our mind,        kindly, smile at others,

evaluate,                                 in love,

be-friend,                               yourself and another,

His strength lifts,                     kind words,

he whispers,                            to you & me,

look at your feet,

where are you standing?

have you been transported? &

are you standing where you ought to be? 

Etches Penmen

19th Feb 2019

TWH

& Sept 2020

Deja-vu = to see again

Orange

Orange has a History 

but just for today let's just ignore 

Orange failings

so

When God made me 

He was thinking in Orange

and made a special batch

Orange is the colour

and Orange and I are in love

and have been for a very long time

It laughs

it sings

its the breeze that's cool and comes in

always smiling

always gay

when I bleed its orange you'll see

If I speak , let the words in orange be

If I write, may you feel the orange as you read

watch in case you see Orange and I walk by

Etches Penmen 

Bucharest 

Sept 2020

 

Be at Peace

 Am I wrestling the world?

or am I wrestling only myself?
can I break the law?
or only break myself upon it?

I have a sense,
I should have purpose,
but my purpose is like a twinkling mist dancing at my fingertips,
not for grasping,
only for following,
without a single promise.

Who laid these expectations on my neck?
Who shackled me behind life's oxen?
I look over my shoulder hoping for rescue,
and wishing at the mountains.

 

8th August 2017 
TWH
Thomas Poe

I love you AFM

A dance to find a thought

a thought lost,

in the bracken of my soul,

Weep

little Child,

the one you love is taken.

but for this thought,

cry with pain,

cry with humanity broken,

cry in utter empty desperation,

‘have I not....’

‘did you not know....’

cry revealing,

a slice, a glimpse, a droplet,

of the true quantum particle, 

that 'elusive emotion',

that red shift revealing pattern and,

a thought hidden from the eye,

is it prides’ gravitational pull?

or does my soul know?

the dangerous thought, 

he cares

28/11/2010

Sydney

T Poe

just around the corner in this crowded city lies a thought hidden

a fact of love hidden and elusive the suited crowds walk by hardling

lifting thier heads not thinking to just take a peek around the corner 

where this thought lies in wait