Bigger is Not Always Better

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Linking with dVerse for Poetics: Border
brought to us by Grace

"If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

~ Neil Simon

Sometimes my mind needs a border collie to steer it in the right direction 

cause my sense of boundaries sometimes gets lost

you see agoraphobia runs in our family

my grandmother only left the house 

once a year to vote

my mother followed the same path

our summers growing up were weeks on end at home

when I was in my 30's I discovered I had a touch of it

on a grander level if you will

we went on a trip to Missouri and I suddenly felt 

anxiety and had no reason why

after a couple jots out of town after that

I realized that when I left town I had the symptoms

it was like agoraphobia on a larger plain

my grandmother could not leave the house

but I could not leave town

wow leave it to my dysfunctional brain

to do it on a broader range.

No Net

The Mag #311

Also linking with Poets United for Poetry Pantry #296

All of life is the exercise of risk. ~William Sloane Coffin


I have always longed to have the heart of a daredevil performer
 flying the trapeze and walking the high wire tightrope 

moving confidently forward with no net to play it safe

yet instead my heart has chosen to stay behind the scenes

content to be a quiet cook standing still in the kitchen of life

willing to serve love and soft devotion on a plate

just be ware my complacent lover....

there may be a wild hair in the

 middle of your mashed potatoes!

Checkmate

photo by Damien Derouene

The Mag #309

Also linking with Poets United for "Poetry Pantry" #294 hosted by Mary.

I always have such a hard time making it to the pantry on Sundays, I am happy I made it here today.

Spring represents promise of new things and good changes, like Mary, it is a favorite season for me as well, so I am going to make a promise to myself this spring to make it to Poetry Pantry more often

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.

~Author Unknown

I don't want to be the pawn in another man's own game

nor watch another play his hand and never do the same.

Standing on the sidelines always playing it safe,

afraid to get my sneakers and go out and run the race.

I long to reach out my hand and play the queen of hearts

and not be frightened of losing the game before it even starts.

A poet is a thinker, a dreamer, and a dweller on the muse

sometimes he gets too caught up on what another man may do..

So I shall lay down my pen and pick up the sword of life

take a swing and hold the freedom of moving my own knight.

A Bigger Fish

Meal Beach, Burrs Island,Shetland by Robin Gosnall

The Mag #159


"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."  ~T.S. Eliot




Mankind is the hunter of new horizons, the seeker of something more
pushing to greater lands as does the waves unto the shore.
He moves on ever further as a hardy ship upon the sea
hoping for fulfillment yet longing to be set free.
Sometimes it is a journey beyond the outskirts of the furthest town
and others it is a sojourn inward to reach what's lost and make it found.
Like the surfer hunts the perfect wave and the fisherman a bigger fish
so does the human spirit search for something greater...a purpose within his fists.