TWO PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS

I am to have Star Wars treatment,

placed in bondage in my space, 

laced and strapped and branded, 

ready for initiation fires

to permeate my skin, purge my sin, 

enter in to places undesired, 

exercise the halls that have inspired, 

pacify the devils now within, 

banish, excommunicate their whim,

starve them, beat them, flail them, shrivel them,

send them packing fast, 

save the rest a cavernous shell,

glean the remnants of my soul, 

change the negative into positive flow, 

a strange enlightenment method, 

so brutal, so brave, transformed, 

perhaps deformed and changed.

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 "SYMBOLIC LIFE" Ann 7th July 2010.

Years fly by but hesitate now and then,

when birthdays come we contemplate

we celebrate those fleeting moments,

concretise them, 

give them shape and meaning. 

even though they are mere numbers, even so,

they give life form, 

without which we wouldn't know

how long or short the days were, 

only seasons of the sun would tell the tale;

I wonder how we'd do and feel, 

even perceive our worth,

without the use of symbols,

describing our source, our birth, 

who knows, and now I've reached a sum 

that's round, or so they say,

as round as round the world this life goes by,

just one of many beating hearts that sigh, 

and wonder why, so strangely mysterious is life, 

as ever, as aye.