Life Is

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LIFE IS.......

Life is a miracle...be amazed.

Think! Every single breath

Is adding fuel to your machine

And cocking a snook at death.

The fact that you're alive at all

Is quite beyond comprehension!

Think of all those wasted eggs

That were just left in suspension!

The hair that grows, the tongue that tastes,

The miraculous eyes that see,

The cells, the chromosomes, the blood,

The incredible intricacy!

Life is a miracle..... be aware.

You're a walking work of art.

Stop for just a moment

And hear the beating of your heart.

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ALONE

Alone.... the saddest word of all......

We are meant to be with others.

As babies we cried piteously

When parted from our mothers.

And there is nothing gloomier

Than being alone in a crowd;

When one is forced into silence

While surrounding sounds are loud;

When the party laughter is deafening

But the joke's not for your ears,

And nobody has noticed you,

You're sometimes near to tears.

And yet, to be alone by choice

Is one of living's joys.

Sitting alone on an empty beach,

With only the surf for noise,

Or listening to the silence

As one gazes at the stars,

Far away from the jangling sounds

Of a million motor-cars.....

These are the most pleasurable

Occasions we have known.

There's a world of meaning 

In that simple word 'alone'.

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What Need?

                                                          Klimt

IMAGINARY GARDEN

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We are asked to take a line from a Walt Whitman poem and make it our own.

WHAT NEED?

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle;

To be alive at all is too good to be true!

What need is there for angels or other remarkables?

Take a look at life and simply drink-in the view.

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EASY?

Nothing is ever easy; life is like a maze.

There are so many twists and turns, so many different ways.

You start out going somewhere and then you change  your mind;

Or else you suddenly realise you've left your purse behind.

The bus breaks down, the train is late, you fall and hurt your knee;

You wander in the garden and you get stung by a bee.

You buy a special outfit, very up-to-the-minute,

And then you find that Alice Spink is looking pretty in it.

Even in your cosy home Life catches you unawares;

You go to write a shopping list....ah, your glasses are upstairs!

'Life wasn't meant to be easy' some famous person said.

That's proved on a daily basis, so get it into your head.

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