SAINT JULIAN PRESS
Fred LaMotte ~ Poet
THE CHOICE
Can you choose anything
other than what Is?
You think you choose what Will Be,
but when it arrives
it’s a pretty strange land.
Of course, you can always choose
what Was.
People make up stories every morning
about last night,
but that’s a waste of tomorrow.
There is an imperishable
golden core
in your solar plexus
where happiness does not come or go
like everything else.
The portal to the kingdom
of contentment has never been closed.
Find it in your body, friend.
Just hug the dragon of now.
To welcome this wingéd
ancient fire-breathing moment
with clear eyes, open palms, soft belly
is perfect joy.
To reject it is suffering.
But you can’t reject what Is
because you're living it.
So, where’s the problem?
Always already free,
this is how a poppy grows.
How a drop of dew dissolves
on a clematis petal.
How a gazelle
offers the pulse of his throat
to the hungry lioness.
Don't worry, we all evanesce
into photons of delight, whirl back
into mothering stars.
other than what Is?
You think you choose what Will Be,
but when it arrives
it’s a pretty strange land.
Of course, you can always choose
what Was.
People make up stories every morning
about last night,
but that’s a waste of tomorrow.
There is an imperishable
golden core
in your solar plexus
where happiness does not come or go
like everything else.
The portal to the kingdom
of contentment has never been closed.
Find it in your body, friend.
Just hug the dragon of now.
To welcome this wingéd
ancient fire-breathing moment
with clear eyes, open palms, soft belly
is perfect joy.
To reject it is suffering.
But you can’t reject what Is
because you're living it.
So, where’s the problem?
Always already free,
this is how a poppy grows.
How a drop of dew dissolves
on a clematis petal.
How a gazelle
offers the pulse of his throat
to the hungry lioness.
Don't worry, we all evanesce
into photons of delight, whirl back
into mothering stars.
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Publication Date: October 12, 2023
Paperback: $20.00 Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc. Language: English Paperback: 148 pages ISBN-13: 978-1-955194-21-1 |
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