CHRISTMAS about SIX, B.C.

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Week #72
(Starts Tuesday at 3 PM Eastern) 

CHRISTMAS c.6 B.C., by Steve E

Little ones--picture this sight:

Bethlehem shaking, shivering

as Child was born that night

inside  stable--

the real Body and Blood.....

Enough warm love inside His little chest

making water, melting snow.

Whole world flooded, as gifts

from His warm Heart flowed.

Roused from blanketed sleep

by sweetest music in high fidelity,

bunch of old fellows with sheep

found their way fast, at last,

into the barn,

and warm

to attend

first midnight mass

Animals knowingly bent

Their knees, witnessing

Most spectacular event

Watch what happened after that!

They rode in with the wind--

not in limos, but on camels sat

three wisest guys,

one totally black...

with squinty eyes!

Following slow-moving sky light

Many weeks, many miles, they

Gazed.

Amazed--

at most bright

Lamb of God has now met

face-to-face

lamb of man.

One Son shall live--another sun set.

During following span-time,

third of a century by count

he lived humbly sublime.

Behold! A donkey to mount!

He rode through streets.

"Hail King!" shouted they

as thousands Peeps he meets

along the routed way.

That little Babe,

child of wonder

had become a man...

life broken asunder,

dying midst  sounds

of tympanic

thunder,

curtain dropped.

While life

painfully stopped

.......and started

Note: re-posted and re-worked
from an "anonymous" blog of mine 
(December 2010)

IMAGE:
That Christmas by
thehiddensapphire
in Deviant Art

ISOLATION--A GOOD TIME?

Words of "Isolation"

Music from "Fascination"

"It was Isolation, my dear..

T'was this Isolation,

sprung out from my fear

Heart that's made of lead

might as well be dead

Unless "I love YOU"

is--yes--what she said,

so true..." 

"Happy Thanksgiving 2012"

Thursday began for me like most other mornings, attendance at an early AA meeting (actually, two of them), happily greeting and enjoying friends in recovery. I had earlier posted on Face Book and elsewhere, how wonderful I felt, while wishing the same for everyone else--it IS a holiday!

Something unusual hit me in a sudden torrent of fear, preceded by a premonition that all was not well--in my head. 

A committee had formed in my brain, in emergency session, to remind me how worthless I am. How could anyone wish 

to be in my presence, or even near?

Ding, ding, ding, ding...

hear that bell ring?

it was my clue

to call somebody.

Anybody. Even you!

Nope! Rather be suffering. 

So I did "do" dinner at noon, and, 

tired from  forcing a smile, 

went home to "isolate"

--just as I used to many years ago. 

ALONE AND LONELY
1958

 I was alone and lonely

also I spoke to no one

and the world

seemed a strange place" 

One day while walking 

along the river bank, I met

a snake, a snail, and a shell.

And I spoke with them:

"All life is twain,

the one a frozen stream;

the other a burning flame.

And that burning flame is

LOVE!" 

(4 lines from THE PROPHET by Kahlil Gibran) 

Later I came upon 

a little child in a carriage 

...and she smiled tenderly at me.  

--Steve E, December 1958

OK, ces sation...

no more im molation 

a bit of--ap probation? 

(is that a word?--grin!)

That which brought you near

also brought you HERE

Sobriety intact,

Steve E  (aka steveroni) 

IMAGE

Family Bonding 

by ericashanee 

In Deviant Art    

POEM (Slightly Erotic?)

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Week #71

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Click  Two Hands Touching

On "losing myself" together:

(Lyrics) South Pacific:

"...you may see a stranger

Across a crowded room

And somehow you know..."

________

A GLANCE! Perchance...

Is a touch

SO MUCH MORE THAN...

skin-on-skin,

touch within

whilst

hungrily we suck

the sweet nectar

each of the other...

"...OH! these heightened senses

as only you can evoke in me--them!"

WOW! A touch is

SO MUCH MORE THAN...

Eye facing eye

Skin-to-skin

heart-and-heart

touched within

TOUCH--

FAR MORE THAN GLANCE

leading perchance to

a place elsewhere

...or nought.

_________

LAGNIAPPE:

(Def: Small gift for the customer--like the 

13th cake, of a dozen ordered)

I love lazy

Love river of sweet syrup-delight

rolling and winding its way

through mental-movie--my life

Yes, me crazy!

Moving with that rivah

Crazy Peep forevah.
_____________

NOTE:

Inspired by my Friend SHADOW'S blog

Some of her own words I have
(with permission)

twisted and bent to fit my

old twisted, bent mind

Steve E (aka steveroni)

TRUE HAPPINESS

"Oh, you have made me SO happy!"

"I am happy only when we are together!"

"If you leave me, I'll never be happy again!"
 

"(cough, cough, spit)...we've kept each other happy for 57 years, 102 days, 16 hours, 31 minutes..."!
 

Etcetera, Etcetera, Etcetera...

______________________________________________

Hmmmmm. I posted the following in the past, and it still ringing in my head. I am every day so VERY happy, but nearly always it is the result of sayings or happenings of someone or something else. When my happiness is inside me, inside my heart, inside my soul, and for only this reason:  "Just because"...then--then may I smile truly in the Universe, and answer honestly the question "How are you"? with this response:
"H A P P Y !!!"--grin!

"True happiness is caused by nothing. True happiness is causeless. When something or some Peep causes my happiness, I will become possessive of that thing or Peep. I will become anxious, lest I lose it. 

"If I ask the mystic why he or she is happy, the answer will be, ‘why not?’"

"Nothing will ever upset me. No one shall ever hurt me." (Peep must not be human!)
 

YEAH...RIGHT--grin! I keep trying and growing!

--From thoughts of Anthony De Mello.

Thank you to MANY Peeps who really know what I'm writing about here. Loving you all. PEACE!
--Steve E (aka "happy-roni")

A STORY-VERSE (STERSE?)

Sorry, I lost URL of artist. If anyone knows it, 

please inform me. Thanks! It was in "DeviantArt"......

THE LINE FORMS HERE, PEEPS!

"Step right this way, 

to end of the line",

said the Peeps in charge.

Order, it prevails,

not what you'd think.

Double columns of people

stretching large and

far, to faraway parallels

like train rails we stood

around city blocks

Tic-tock, tic-tock,

hours, minute-molted.

Hearts simply sank...

some of us, frail,

might simply fail

to stay upright;

our goal

not yet

in sight.

Thousands slathering

before us, gathering

to cross the moat

and vote. 

Thus, the 2-3-hour wait,

our recent fate,

price for being late.

Slow march to destination,

we--all strangers--said "Hello",

settled into a quiet darkness...

began to "know" one another.

We discussed lives and loves,

friends, history, mothers,

mystery.

Eight in number, traveling

"family"-on-foot, braving cold.

Four for Barack, four for Mitt

we joked and laughed,

played and prayed.

Child said, "Hey man, you're old.

You go front and sit!"

I answered, "No thanks--

these, my new-found Peeps ,

I'll stay, stand my ground."

Yes, politics we discussed

friendly

briefly

so all save face.

And yes, laughed and played

--spiritual moments 

to know....

laugh.

play.

vibrate.

......vote!

LOVE and PEACE, Peeps!

--Steve E

NOTE: Next post I intend to write brief sketch 
of each Peep in the "Group of Eight" (above) 
while I remember them...before I do not--grin!

 

This "LOVE" Business

Posted rather late (last one in, #109--grin!) on D'VERSE, a favorite place!

Prayer Girl at Naples Beach

Love? LOVE it!

People say that love hurts, 

but that's not true.

Loneliness hurts.

Rejection hurts.

Losing someone hurts

Envy hurts.

We confuse these with love

but in reality, love is the only thing 

in this world that does not hurt.

Love covers up all pain 

and makes us feel 

wonderful again.

--Unknown

LOVE and PEACE, Peeps!