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machete

by Mary Frances Spencer

old guard swords
grasping greed
tradition prejudice
injustice
rusty edged

not gonna cut it

time to untangle
find
peaceful resolutions

swing machete
clear this jungle past

unwind the vines
so the future can
breathe
ahead

11/11/2008

Author's Note: Inhale hope everyone! Namaste MFS

Posted on 11/12/2008
Copyright © 2024 Mary Frances Spencer

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 11/12/08 at 06:45 AM

Brilliant.

Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 11/12/08 at 09:04 AM

Wow MFS this feels like medieval Zen, in that a practitioner of Zen is most basically one whose life is awakening each moment to that threshold, the still point where all the possibilities exist. To practice is to release oneself from the momentum of the past, the karma of what seems to be indicated as the only next step. Aside from that we may need some to prescribed some vigorous "hacks" at the past, with whatever is handy! Good exercise, either way. Delighted with your poem. Thanks.

Posted by George Hoerner on 11/12/08 at 12:51 PM

So very well said lady. We certainly need an opened direction to the future or there may be none.

Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 11/12/08 at 06:11 PM

Excellent choice of tool! and a fine ending. Thank you.

Posted by Charles E Minshall on 11/12/08 at 11:59 PM

I do pray the future is a good one Mary. Good poem.....CharMin

Posted by Tony Whitaker on 11/14/08 at 04:14 AM

In the words of the late, great Sam Cooke, "A change is Gonna Come". Well said MFS.

Posted by Sandy M. Humphrey on 11/14/08 at 08:08 PM

Timely and deep breaths and look to the future. smh

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