A Man in a Room, and other poems - 26. obscure

Four jewels, four crystalline drops of dew in the dawn shine here. I’ll start with 72, which speaks to my own heart and thinking. You voiced thoughts I have had forever. 71 is particularly apt for Earth Day yesterday. What have we done? The ugliness we impose on the Earth has too few enemies. 74 deepens my thoughts on happiness and peace, compared to pleasure. I love this, and may quote it for my classroom door. 73 made me smile and shudder: smile, for gentle memories and happy winters I have known; shudder, for the long winter just passed and the grey that lingers yet. 

Thank you. 

Each of these is small, yet they hold immense power. The scream messages that everyone should hear.

74. my head is not in a good place and i laughed out loud when i read this. Pleasure is not happiness. People give up marriages, and family, the only things that truly matter in the world, in pursuit of pleasure. Whether it be sex, or gold ... they will give up love for it.

73. i dont know why really but this made me sad

72. you have the name you made ... to many of us it is great. you are loved by many xo

71. human beings do not deserve what we have. like everything they do they will figure that out on the last day. once they have killed the planet, each other, every rhino, elephant, tiger ... they will decide then, too late, perhaps they should have not only cared about pleasure.

On 4/23/2018 at 12:28 PM, Parker Owens said:

Four jewels, four crystalline drops of dew in the dawn shine here. I’ll start with 72, which speaks to my own heart and thinking. You voiced thoughts I have had forever. 71 is particularly apt for Earth Day yesterday. What have we done? The ugliness we impose on the Earth has too few enemies. 74 deepens my thoughts on happiness and peace, compared to pleasure. I love this, and may quote it for my classroom door. 73 made me smile and shudder: smile, for gentle memories and happy winters I have known; shudder, for the long winter just passed and the grey that lingers yet. 

 

Thank you. 

Thank you, Parker my friend, for a great set of comments. I respond to your thoughts concerning winter. I hope all is getting warmer now.

Thanks again for your feedback. These are person poems, and not always the easiest to share. Muah

On 4/24/2018 at 4:47 AM, Mikiesboy said:

Each of these is small, yet they hold immense power. The scream messages that everyone should hear.

 

74. my head is not in a good place and i laughed out loud when i read this. Pleasure is not happiness. People give up marriages, and family, the only things that truly matter in the world, in pursuit of pleasure. Whether it be sex, or gold ... they will give up love for it.

 

73. i dont know why really but this made me sad

 

72. you have the name you made ... to many of us it is great. you are loved by many xo

 

71. human beings do not deserve what we have. like everything they do they will figure that out on the last day. once they have killed the planet, each other, every rhino, elephant, tiger ... they will decide then, too late, perhaps they should have not only cared about pleasure.

Thank you, Tim. I know at some points in my life I've mused whether or not the Earth was trying to extinguish the human experiment. Certain things pop up now and then and still make me wonder. Maybe she's just waiting for the next, inevitable Chicxulub event to take the burden away for her  

Thanks again.