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Rod 4/16/04 Photo by Billy Iz
A Thought for Today
If your goals are a long way off, run -
don't walk.
FROM the¨BOOKS
THREE POEMS from CELEBRATIONS of the HEART
The Spanish Hills
Summer comes late
in the hill country
trees and topiary
do not claim verdant victory
till August.
Even Bougainvillea waits
until the middle of July
to run along fences.
I wish that we had moved
more slowly
taken time to know
the things about each other
that we should not know.
I am in no hurry to learn
how your sighs are manufactured
and maybe you
shouldn’t know me well enough to know –
never mind.
The sun
is on the Spanish Hills
I fear we’ll not go
running there.
today or ever.
And the Horse Goes Home
Rabbits run
geese fly north / south
then homeward, north again.
Every animal or bird
however small
every thing
that moves beneath
God’s benevolent eye
does so only
in His own good time.
Riding in the field
this morning,
thinking not about
the needs of all men
but selfishly
of my own desires only
I dithered on
as I now am wondering
what design
or brand new plan
He might have in mind
for me.
Nothing stirs now
no revolution
has come about
no direction
has changed for me
but I feel
and have been feeling
the need to move.
When the horse beneath me
begins to romp and stomp
and gallop through the earth
I often wish that it was
my own muscled flesh
thundering through the field
and up the hillsides
sure of where I headed
or positive
that whatever hand
that guides me knows.
After the ride,
after all the rides
we head home slowly
the horse and me.
Not tired but resigned.
What a puny ego driven thing
Is any man to assume
The Deity has His attention.
-from Celebrations of the Heart, 1975, with revisions 8/27/04
Happy weekend and sleep warm.
RM 8/27/2004 11:01PM PDST
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