I’m never surprised
to see pain and beauty share
the same DNA

Comments

• January 16, 2010, susan writes: lovely
• January 17, 2010, howard writes: thank you, Susan. the more i experience, the truer it seems.
• January 22, 2010, PJ writes: There's definitely a lot of truth to this.
  :)
• February 1, 2010, cheryl e gordon aka Muffyjo writes: the positive & the negative, the light and the dark, the pain & the beauty .... tied together by the same DNA. Love this mini poem. Great analogy.
• February 1, 2010, howard writes: thanks, Cheryl!

(with a tip of the hat to J.R.R. Tolkien)

irony remains:
not all who wander are lost,
though some who don’t are

Comments

• May 31, 2009, PJ writes: Good haiku. I've always loved that quote!

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• February 4, 2009, Anthony writes: They're good at telling us why, and not so good at telling us when and how much. They were full of analysis on the late news yesterday. Beforehand, they were full of...
• February 12, 2009, Colin Devroe writes: It isn't so rare that they are wrong. At least not in our area. However, there was a short article written by our local weather-person a few years ago that you might find really, really interesting (I did.) Take a look at it below and let me know what you think on the comments of that post:
  
  http://cdevroe.com/notes/weather-predicting/
• February 13, 2009, howard writes: Good one! I had heard of it before (at least vaguely), but never really applied it to my evaluation of the performance of meteorologists. I guess we all just want to have someone to blame when things don't go as expected ;)

And I was the driver,
listening to the music
and tapping rhythm on your thigh,
cresting a hill on the expressway,
seeing the disabled car
half an instant too late.

How is it we so easily
dismiss the peculiarity of the moment,
as if any other
could have taken its place?

Perhaps it’s because
we want to believe,
(as you often said)
every moment,
each opportunity,
is self-orchestrated;
like the universe
is a willing mistress
waiting for our call.

But just before the break of day
as you lay with me,
resting peacefully,
silk hair on my arm,
soft breath on my neck,
I was someplace else,
wondering what I’d done
to have found myself
in a moment like that one.

Comments

• December 28, 2008, Heather writes: Lovely. As always.
• December 29, 2008, howard writes: Thank you. I'm curious to know whether my use of different tenses is
  noticeable to anyone.
• December 30, 2008, Heather writes: I did notice, also noticed your tags of "anticipation" and "closure" - the effect of the tenses and the tags being that it lets me in, a bit - but not all the way in. I know you a little better - but not a LOT better, if that makes any sense.
• January 4, 2009, PJ writes: How is it we so easily
  dismiss the peculiarity of the moment,
  as if any other
  could have taken its place?
  
  Love that set of lines!
  
  The concept of "the peculiarity of the moment" especially appeals to me. We do tend to see the moments of our lives as interchangable.