Happiness is a state of mind and
love a condition of the heart
Without which man is an empty shell
awaiting life’s meaning to start.
THOUGHT ( 1989 ) 2013/02/14
Truth, I have lived so many years and learned so many things
And lastly found the value of the peace that loving brings.
HONOR ( 1968 ) 2013/02/13
While ghetto-bred and sidewalk-grown
The wisdom of the streets intone,
Like marigold instead of rose
Intensity of roots disclose.
To walk among the worldly ways
And see the truth with watchful gaze,
Know God exists in every man
And seek the best goal that you can.
Strongly speak with loving kindness
Accept rejection with fairness,
Quickly move to help another
And friendship search to discover.
Respect your needs in terms most clear
Reflect your weakness without fear,
Regard the world’s immensity
And love with deep propensity.
SHADOW OF THE MIND ( 2005 ) 2013/02/11
The journey of a sunlight’s ray dancing on the blind
Highlights the vast spectrum of crisis crowding the air
That which the naked eye at each twilight does not find
And never in its search would reason that such were there.
Much mystery, we cannot perceive as it unwinds.
Myriads of flecks emerging from we know not where
One mixed and tossed residue of varied sorts and kinds
That time in all its aspects will neither show nor share.
Somewhere beyond that haze of clouded sky
There thrive these elements that must deny
Man’s conscious drive to aimful lifetime plan
As countless hopes that drift and float and fan.
Seems useless waste within the space of time
That’s known to be the total of man’s prime,
I pause and wonder how my years are spent
Within the shadow of a life well meant.
Six billion other souls must breathe and grow
And labor same as I, yet never know
Why life is played in shadows and in shades,
All memory leaves nought as desire fades
Then move to greet the end as we all must
And join at last that final earthbound dust.
Claire V. Bogdanos 