A common space for harmonic peacemakers

Poem

A tiger is not a tiger,

if it does not know to hunt,

A squirrel cannot be a squirrel,

if it doesn’t know to jump

A fish is not really it,

if it does not know to swim,

A dove can't be a dove,

if it doesn't know to flap its wings,

A leaf on a tree can't be,

if it does not trust enough to fall,

I have to open my eyes to see

the true nature of us all,

If my mind awakes before my heart,

and I'm guided by a vague curiosity,

If I don't feel this life, dancing, a work of art,

then I am not really me

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Permalink Reply by Ana on July 13, 2014 at 12:45am

" ... a work of art, then I am not really a man " It came to me like that.

Your poem is like nature ; true and pure

Thanks for posting it

Kind regards

Ana

Permalink Reply by David Rendle on July 13, 2014 at 6:31pm

Yes, I prefer not really a man :)

thank you so much

Permalink Reply by Rosmarie Heusser on July 13, 2014 at 9:35pm

-"..?.." - These words "….." Ana, seem quite strange to me. Can You find any sense??! -

Anyway, it's a very good poetry.

Permalink Reply by Rosmarie Heusser on July 14, 2014 at 12:40pm

:-) I hope, dear John, that You will preserve the "me"(for oneself)-version. -

Not to live superficially is a spiritual matter of free choice, isn't it? …and it sounds true to me, that what ever way of life we choose, we always are real human beings! -

Have a Good Time

Permalink Reply by desmond dillon on July 14, 2014 at 9:12am

for the last 30 years or so it has been accepted internationally in law that corporations banks etc can be treated as human beings. They are actually privately owned property. The point is that if privately owned property is recognized in law as human then human is recognized as privately owned property. The law has failed to recognize what a human being is..... do we??

Permalink Reply by janice wilson on July 14, 2014 at 3:57pm