S Morgan: A New York Night

Nov 5, 2008

A New York Night

Running fingers through my hair,
I realizing it's turning gray
and think, "So what?
Are you afraid of gray?"
I'm not even afraid of earthquakes,
though snakes still send me running.

My roof is leaking--
irritating.
So I heat up hot chocolate
scratch my dog's back
and listen to Obama
heating up the country.

Tiny slivers of light
played on a hospital wall
the night I bothered God,
Why don't you bring me home?
This is enough.
And God said no, as usual.

He'd rather I travel to NYC
six years later
with my re-born daughter.
We even sang in the subway,
ate steaming hot dogs,
late, 3 am, in the rain.

3 comments:

Megan said...: I LOVE you, Mom! You're poetry is rising beautifully from you. Keep writing, please. This one brought tears to my eyes...; 11:27 AM
Megan said...: I miss New York. It was so special for me that I feel like it's a piece of home now; because I was with you...; 4:47 PM
~b said...: I love this poem! I hope you never stop writing...it would be travesty.; 4:05 PM

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Basho

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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
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Dogen

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Robert M. Pirsig

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Robert M. Pirsig

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Only the crystal-clear question yields a transparent answer.

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Life is the only thing worth living for.

Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon.

Live every day like your hair was on fire.

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

When you get to the top of the mountain, keep climbing.

The mind should be as a mirror.

There is nothing infinite apart from finite things.

Everyday life is the way.

Great Faith. Great Doubt. Great Effort. - The three qualities necessary for training.

If you do not get it from yourself, Where will you go for it?

Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them.