Dandelion

Never catch a dandelion.
You'll destroy the whole process.
Leave it be to roam the Green City,
swirl around Banana Tower,
zoom down Durian Avenue,
and take a break at Star Apple Station.
Don't stop it in its invisible tracks.
It is a traveler, an explorer -
Let it ride the winds of discovery
until it finds a perfect spot
to land and find a home.

The Sound of Silence

It is not silent -
as three children play under the trees,
and the dilapidated chimes still chirp when fed intermittently.
There's a cricket croaking.
The fire trees extinguished.
A pigeon on the roof.
There are these ducks scavenging below the house.
A banana leaf eaten away like caterpillars.
Still there is no silence -
The persistence of the great echo
- disturbs everything even the clucking birds get all jumpy
- moves everything, the albino eagles roaring at a distance.
A buzzing in the air and moaning from what seems to be a dog,
the buzzers scouring the ground.
It is not silent -
but that's no problem.
Here with all the noise
the silence you rarely hear.
The belching horns of the tricycle.

The Search for Love

To reach love you must
climb the highest mountain.
Find the brightest star
or count how many they are.
Sing the most beautiful song,
buy the sweetest chocolates.
Drink the reddest wine,
or buy the most fragrant flowers.
Take the earliest flight,
search the seven seas;
write a beautiful poem
that rhymes with Jeroboam.
Write a heartwarming letter,
in the Shakespearean form
and thou'st shall make it better.

Otherwise you can just think of it as a variable and find the derivative.
Or maybe yet...
if all else fails and you can no longer persist,
find your limit and say love does not exist.

Love Comes Only Once

For the overly sentimental,
the busy sooth-sayer,
and the presently frustrated,
love comes only once.
Dwellers. Afraid and
Stagnant in their own pool.
Mixing a brew of lavender yolks
In the quest to awaken
the pitiless fool.

When Will It All End?

And they dismissed Him
for they were not cannibals.
They're neighbors that do not love.
Neighbors that only differ in faith.
Do they not see each other as human?
Extreme measures taken,
vengeance claimed as theirs.
A never ending struggle
to find a Home.

Stargazer

For ever the Stars have looked down on him:
paving paths in the darkness,
building dreams for the heavens,
adorning nature's black beauty.

For ever They look down on him.
In the past they were men of poverty
and in their years of toil ascended
as Kings and Queens of Creation.

Yet he is stooped dumbfounded
in the turmoil of his own inventions;
never stopping to ponder or dream
blinded with ink and paper.

There will soon be a man of today
not like him of yesterday.
Who'll ponder and dream for
today and tomorrow.

He will look up at Creation
and praise the Kings and Queens.
He will take each path in the darkness,
and search the heavens for his dreams.

The Law of Positive Returns

All Men Are Created Equal = Give and Take
Why not give and receive? i.e. it is in giving that we receive
equal proceeds, a profit where there are no costs
"Do unto others, as you would have others do unto you".
Amen.

The more you give the more you take
= the more you hate the more you love?
Why not the more you give, the more you receive? i.e.
the more money you give, the more money you get?
the more love you give, the more love you get?
the more sour candies you give, the more sour candies you get?
it is in giving...that we receive.

"An eye for an eye..."
Let me get what I ought to get.
Give him what he deserves!
But it is in giving = that we receive.
1. Give love when there is none.
2. Pardon when no one need be forgiven.
3. Have faith when in doubt.
4. Show hope when in despair.
5. Seek light in the darkness.
6. Bring joy to sadness.

The Law of Positive Returns
giving = receiving.