Shadows

Poem 1
shadow of my past

overcast
dark
gloomy
portending
doom

shaking off
erasing it
chasing away
not happening

lengthy
elongated

seated
shortened delightfully

sleeping
same size
very much
there


to banish
must self perish
first
dust to dust
to bust
yet it is still
carried forward
baggage of karma
crosses over
to settle account
finally
before
thinning
dissipating
erasing
going going gone!!
clean slate
to start all
over

another shadow
another gameplan
to beat the odds
life goes on
shadows
stay
put
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine -
and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
American, Poet


To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into
either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.
Jeremy P. Johnson



How many people make themselves abstract to appear
profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are
the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert 1754-1824, French Moralist


Old sins cast long shadows.
English 20th Century Proverbs

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Poem 2
Shadows Stay Put

The Inseparables
Tangible and intangible

Joined at the hip,
Implacable Siamese twins

The body and its shadow
Life pursued by death

Betwixt yesterday n tomorrow
Present is ever moving shadow

Embarked on life’s journey
Only shadow stays put

Daring to be alone, fly solo
I try to cut my shadow loose,

I stamp on it, fight it, rail against it
Physically resist it, emotionally banish it

All goes to naught, doesn’t quit
Inexorably, shadow stays put

Sun begets shadow and to banish it
Need total darkness or total light

Rising sun and setting sun elongates shadows
Midday’s sun at its zenith, makes it disappear

Total light, is quite intolerable
Hence, shadow stays put

Lobotomy is drastic, life with
Shadows is the ultimate truth

Only shadows stay put

The body and its shadow
Life pursued by death

The Inseparables
Tangible and intangible

Only shadows stay put


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Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour
upon the stage And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury, Signifying Nothing.
William Shakespeare

Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
English Proverb
Sayings of British Origin