Tell us a moment or an incident that you treasure — not necessarily because it brought you happiness, but because it taught you something about yourself.
Photographers, artists, poets: show us LEARNING.
Today I tried to meditate
The fly had other plans.
Every time my mind detached
It landed on my hands.
*
At first annoyed I thrashed about.
Into the air it rose.
I settled down to contemplate.
It landed on my nose.
*
I puffed, I blew, I screamed abuse.
“Why won’t you go away?”
It landed, ‘PLOP’, upon my arm,
Determined it would stay.
*
The urge to kill rose up in me.
A short, sharp slap might find
A way to still the universe,
restore my peace of mind.
*
I looked at it, the little guy.
How soon it could be dead.
& suddenly I saw how evil
thoughts had filled my head.
*
Tranquility at such a cost
would hardly set me free.
I realized only Love
can give us Truth & Unity.
*
I decided that the Universe
was giving me a test.
That little guy was sent along
to show me how to jest.
*
I laughed, relaxed, he sat there still.
I closed my eyes & felt
his little legs departing
as I allowed my rage to melt.
Words & Images: Khana Spector © All rights reserved
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What a great poem! And I love the way you put the pictures with the relevant captions top and bottom.
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I had to finish writing it & post it quickly on a bus, because I was travelling to an internet free zone for the weekend. The pic is not the fly in the poem, I’m happy to say, it’s some kind of wasp I snapped a couple of days ago & it just happened to be on my laptop lol. Thanks for reading & enjoying 🙂
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