Adrift

                Maggie Taylor

SENSATIONAL HAIKU WEDNESDAY
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ADRIFT

Drift along a stream

Or drift aimlessly through life

For good or for ill

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The words in blue are from Eleanor Roosevelt.



FRIENDSHIP

(After Patience Strong)

Friendship with oneself is all important;

Enjoy your you-ness every single day.

Be constantly aware

Of the great world that you share,

With that person who's inside you all the way.

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Friendship with some others is exciting;

When one's liked it's the icing on the cake.

But, without self-love, you'll find

No real warmth inside your mind,

So you cannot give, but only merely take.

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Forgive yourself for all your small shortcomings;

Don't be hard on someone who should mean so much.

Then you'll find you can forgive

Other folk with whom you live

And you can give the world a tender touch.

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A baby loves itself, it's quite self-centred;

It's the centre of its little universe;

Then it learns to love one other,

Its own adoring Mother.

Loving others is a task we must rehearse.

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Light a little flame of liking in your own mind,

Then let it shine on others every day.

Friendship's one of life's great pleasures,

Let's dispense it in large measures.

A friendship with ourselves shows us the way.

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