Friday, 23 August 2013

A better life is there ...if we just look for something 'better'


Views in Verse - on self-actualisation.


A better life is there ...if we just look for something 'better'

How often do we sit pondering on ways to improve our everyday lives...

When the difference between mundane and bliss is as simple as turning the key and walking out the door...

Serendipity


Since going my own way (I do ok)
but I can at times relapse
Today the crossword I do each morn'
Was the trigger to such a collapse

The early clues began this slide:
'regret,  loss and  ...falling'
No matter what I did from there
The trend just kept on forming

Words  like 'rejection' and 'scorn'
Provide for further fuel
While  'promise, growth and ...hope'
Point towards renewal

Progressively though
my eye was drawn
To the 'mystery word of the day'...
An eleven letter teaser...
That steered my thoughts away

After much 'to-ing and fro-ing'
Addressing thoughts absurd
It seemed without question at all
 'Serendipity' was surely that word

I note that this is a term
related to 'sudden joy'
A state of mind
to be sure
not felt since I was a boy

It struck quite a chord
I must admit
In looking beyond the 'mundane'
to truly envisage
a richer life
built on a 'serendipitous' plane

The sound of children playing
A reassuring vibe
Suddenly reminding you...
 "yes I am alive!!!"
Life is jellybean colours
Fireworks in the sky
A silvery beam is shining
Out of a wondering eye

They say ...we set our goals
far short of what we presume
Instead if we were to
'shoot for the stars'
We might just
'hit the moon'

Forwarded from my Iphone - Grahame J Flynn

Saturday, 10 August 2013

When was the time in your life that you look back upon with greatest fondness?

Views in Verse - on 'the golden years'. 


When was the time in your life that you look back upon with greatest fondness?

I bet you can guess what I'm thinking ...those first few years out of school!!!

Such a short period within the greater context of our lives

but so key to what we were to become as adults.



22sunshine St

Looking back
as I sometimes do
A memory comes to mind:
Halcyon times...
Life out of school...
 'rafferty's rules' and...
22sunshine St

Dishes piled high in the kitchen
Washing only ever on need
Rarely much food anyhow
If per chance you fancied a feed
Do take-out
or do without at
22sunshine St

Always a new friend over
Staying till last one there
No extra beds needed
just sleep anywhere
The door was ever open
Drop'ins standard fare at
22sunshine St

We shared our books
and crosstown buses...
Studying as we'd go
Night time was the time for fun
Our student friends would show
Our parents came by too
Chat for a while
then go at
22sunshine St

Despite our different backgrounds
We cared for each other with pride
Sharing each others problems
Fighting each others fights
There was no me in us
Rarely a fuss (at)
22sunshine St

Making love to the late nite trains
With a real tin roof for the rain
A first love came and went
We each shared that same pain
Learning to live
learning to love at
22sunshine St


Days raced by
no time to think
Talk was the key
cheap wine the drink
Music the backdrop
sometimes loud
MJ set us free...


Some of us played 101 guitar
Never one of them in tune
Doin' our best with vintage rock
Sat'day arvo from noon
Rhythm was the challenge
Laughter was on cue at
22sunshine St

We seemed to know
where we were going
Without ever wondering how
We shared so much together
With rarely a shout or a row
Self control on show
Where it came from
I now don't know...at
22sunshine St

Some of us took fulltime jobs
Few resisted the call
the winds of change
were by then blowing
Far too hard at the door
Our own needs were changing too
life partners changed it all at
22sunshine St

Somewhere within this makeshift 'home'
In going about our days
we became something we didn't plan
Within this sometime haze
Where pawns became kings
in learning life's
most precious things at
22sunshine St

These days ...a busy life
few regrets come to my door
But whenever things
do get me down
I call upon lessons
learnt all those years before
in preparing for life
(and meeting my wife)
at 22sunshine St
22sunshine St

Forwarded from my Ipad - Grahame J Flynn