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sha_onarainyday
Aug 24, 2009 ⭐ See this poem's read count — a supporter feature

Nothing's as hard...

If you can remember the


   step

            by

                  …

If you can remember

to be clever:

Forget it!

               You are wasting your energy.

 

The trick for bliss

is this:

 

Know a few

Simple things

And do them WELL

 

Simply put-

Master a skill

 

And commit to memory

the motions of

the hands and thoughts

like a well oiled

machine

 

Then-

if this works

(tada!)

if your spokes

don't croak

as your thinking

wheels spin

 

do it again

 

Get someone to pay

for the skill

you've mastered

with pride

 

Yes!

Grovel a little

but remember to get paid

ab hinc - commence

having a good life

 

If you can remember

to do the one thing

before the other

like one foot

                     in front

                                   ...

 

you will be a success.


— sha_onarainyday, Aug 24, 2009

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Seren

Seren

16 years 11 months ago

Dear Sha

Simple truths spoken eloquently loved it ... Love Jayne x x "We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. Lynn Hall" ...
KS

Kenneth Sharp

16 years 11 months ago

An interesting and quirky

An interesting and quirky delivery. I like the pacing even though it had a sort of staccato rhythm to it. The theme was also pretty cool when transformed into a poem, the old saying is (I think), "jack of all trades, master of nothing"... Nice job.
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bjp

16 years 11 months ago

Dear Sha,

I have missed your writing. I hope the prose is going well. Feel free to send a snippet my way. I think that your style, which is wonderful, could now be called the "tada!" method. Now here, you are on the side of the modern world, which I guess, if we are alive, we are always somewhat on the side of. But I detest the factory that each person is pushed to become. For you are absolutely correct: "success" typically means becoming an assembly line, for ideas, medicine, cars,... pick a topic. The variation inherent in the Renaissance Person ideal is an artist's aspiration in a strip mall continent. Personally, I have never managed to accede to Ford's version of stoicism. I prefer my own. And if that means a little less bliss, so be it. But that doesn't mean I'm not glad to see your words. Brian
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sha_onarainyday

16 years 11 months ago

Thanks for your reply Brian,

Thanks for your reply Brian, I find great value in your opinion and don't necessarily disagree. It is what it is and (whatever the flaws and disparities), up to the reader's interpretation. thanks, sha

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