Letting Go

We have to learn to let go

It happens everyday

We let go of the small things

The unimportant things

Things we barely notice we let go of

Yet our life is about letting go

Moving on,

Moving forward

And away from many things everyday

The last time we talk to someone

Away from love and loved ones

Away from our thoughts and feelings

Away from what we believe

Away from negativity

And hurt

And turn it into something new and meaningful to us

We learn to change,

To grow,

To become more of who we are going to be

We change dreams

Let go of expectations, 

And move away from the idea of immortality

We learn that we are really on our own

As we move slowly

Inexorably

Fatally

Towards our demise

Alone

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by Bill Ferguson

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Living

Patterns flow

We conceive

Seeing meaning in sequence

Understanding to believe

Transcending moments

To escape the now

Transporting 

and explaining

To grow beyond ourselves

We read

Create illusions

See possibilities

Explore ideas

Develop plans

Engage the mind

Make the present

Easier to bear

Giving hope

As we sense our future

Providing a stronger

Here and now

Helping us see beauty in

The world 

In which 

We live

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by Bill Ferguson

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There

There

There are you

Without a word 

All heads turn 

Towards you

You smile

And you wave

Aware

But not craving

The situations

Others are

Creating 

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by Bill Ferguson

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Love Is

Powerful yet fragile

Wanting to be at one

Passionate and intimate

Simple,

Honest,

Serene ,

Affection, admiration. sympathy,

Influence,

Self-sacrifice

Organic

Rightness and

Resilience tested

Love is deep and calm

Lacking in fear or control

A warm true heart

A towering intellect

A guiding light

It is this

And more

So much more

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by Bill Ferguson

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Why Do We?

Who are you?
Who am I?
In this thing called life
Why are we side by side?
Why do we walk down well worn paths?
Why do we dive into the sea?
Why do we sit by campfires?
Why do we feel cold in our feet?
Why do we laugh and sing?
Why do we inquire?
Why do we rise above?
Why do we inspire?
Why do we take the time
To notice all our thoughts?
Does it make any difference
To achieve all we have sought?

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by Bill Ferguson

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A Series of Short Poems

 

Sometimes short and very short poems rule the day. At times they are actually written that way and at other times you write something much, much longer but it doesn't really work out so you are left with something that has a couple of good lines in it. And that's okay.
A Couplet

When the circle breaks 

Fast money is not on you

So It Is

So it is

So it will always be

Unless you see

A need 

For change

Water Moves On

To those who know 

There is no doubt

Where the water flows 

There is an out

Slipping through cracks

Moving where it wants

Abusing, 

Absolving,  

Cleansing, 

Before it moves on

Disinterested 

In what has occurred

Finding new sources 

For its merriment

 And

Ultimate pleasure 

Regurgitation

Regurgitation is fine

For birds

But in life 

It shows a lack of creativity

Making one despise

The power of public praise

Pretty Much

Conspiratorial, 

Envious,  

Arbitrary,  

Jealous,  

Petty, 

Boring, 

That pretty much says it all

A Simple Spore

Once 
She sat
But she 
Sits no more
Violently felled
By 
A  
Simple  
Spore

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by Bill Ferguson

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A World Full Of Sounds

Words

More words 

And even more words

Poured forth

Issuing summons

Creating a path

As we wandered by the lakeshore

Listening to the waves 

And the leaves on the trees 

Ushering in a new day

You in your heals

On a slippery slope

Dodging the rain with every step

All in search of easing the mind

 For once someone was listening

In tune with the moment

Seeing equality 

In a world full of sounds

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by Bill Ferguson

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Inspiration 

There are things i hear

There are things i see

There are things

That I feel that I need

These things inspire me

Won’t you come and

Spend some time with me

Art galleries and

Variety shows

Rock formations

Found down at the shore

These things inspire me 

Won’t you come and

Spend some time with me

Campfire sing along

Moonlit nights until dawn

Wind whispering across the sand

The first time I held your hand

These things inspire me

Won’t you come and

Spend some time with me

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by Bill Ferguson

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The Doors Of Perception 

On a journey

Together 

On a path

Something happening

Powerful

A connection 

 Silence

Terror

Joy

A full range of human emotions

A meeting of the minds

Accepting the disparate

Accepting the outsider 

As one

Seeing more than anyone else 

Had seen before

Jazz and blues and flamenco 

And words written to explore

You can’t burn out if you’re not on fire

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by Bill Ferguson

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A Winter’s Day

I saw a mouse in the woodpile

Well aware of the morning frost

Setting fodder aside for those days

When going outside would be a loss

The fence hums in the gusting wind

Sending shivers down my spine

Reminding me to not be alone

When the storms arrives with its full mind

A cricket chirps by the fireplace

It makes me wonder what they eat

How long can he survive in a house

Will he live without the growing heat

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by Bill Ferguson

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