sometimes
a problem pops up
and you have three choices
ignore it
maybe it’ll go away
ask someone else
what to do about it
so you don’t have to
make a decision
on your own
and thus be responsible
or else deal with it
not the easiest option
but ultimately
the one that helps you
grow
and be the adult
you claim to be
Month: February 2017
from A Pondering Mind’s blog
ten thousand balloons
ten thousand balloons
fill the sky
each one a thought
of you
at Leo’s: for the boys & girls upstate
the price
of drinks food
varied
any given night
depending on how
he felt
about you
from Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi
If a man or woman flails about, he not only
Smashes his house,
He burns the whole world down.
translated by Robert Bly
from A Man by Attila İlhan
I am a man
another man
a vagabond
who dumped his youth headlong into the streets
and tossed away his hopes like pigeons
lost them time and time again
lost them in the graveyard of ships
in his cruel poems and songs
found them time and time again
then he dragged the dawn’s shrieks by the hair
there goes the sea and there goes he
there goes the cloud and there goes he
a man
a different man
a vagabond
translated by Talat S. Halman
when life comes calling
the eyes droop
like eyes will
with sleep
a foreign concept
here
on the border
of what lies
ahead
one plans
in a fashion
a future
resembling
one’s vision
which is
worth living in
when life
comes calling
untitled poem by Jahan Malek Khatun
Your face usurps the fiery glow and hue
of roses;
And with your face here, what have I to do
with roses?
Your ringlets’ fragrance is so sweet, my friend,
No fragrant rose-scent could entice me to
seek roses–
Besides, the faithless roses’ scent will fade,
Which is a serious drawback, in my view
of roses;
And if the waters of eternal life
Had touched their roots, so that they bloomed anew,
these roses,
When could they ever form a bud as sweet
As your small mouth, which is more trim and true
than roses?
translated by Dick Davis
Glad Rain on a Spring Night by Du Fu (translation)
another translation from the Chinese by Mary Tang at Life is But This
Bertrand Russell Quote
from the blog A Pondering Mind
Leonard Durso 