NAPKIN WORDS #44 2011 - Dedicated to Mike Prevor

1. WE ARE THE ONLY
Be everything to your friends.

Be nothing to your enemies.

This way, some of them will know who you are!

2. AMAZING
What you will find so astonishing, is how the
flesh ages, how there are so many signs of time
passing, and yet when you examine your heart, it
just continues filling, it continues to grow!

3. AGE WISDOM
When you willingly put up with things which once
made you upset.

When you keep silent, where once you would have
been loud.

Where you ignore those things you now understand
were never as important as you once thought!

4. AS STRANGE AS IT MAY SEEM
Kindness is not elusive.

It’s there, right beside you.

Call it friend!

5. LOVE THOUGHT
Reach me, I will feel.

Reach you, I always discover!

6. THE PERFECT PLAYGROUND
Three children, a park in spring and a puppy
frolicking in happiness!

7. DIALOGUE
Conversation is the mind breathing thoughts
of its own free spirit, entwined by history and
education!

8. QUINTESSENCE OF YOU
Who you were.

Who you are.

Who you will be.

What can change who you will be?

There is an answer, all call it love!

9. WITHIN THE BRAIN
Imagination consists of those wondrous ribbons
encasing the mind.

They untie easily, so insure they are beautiful and
make sure there are many!

FAMILY

Sharing pleasures created when love
was joined, is a child's laughter for
parents to own.

Emerging magic displays their inner
strength, honoring flesh hugged by
tenderness.
Teaching to prayers all we became.
Praising those who toiled stoically,
making it so.

Young of young, echoes endure from that
first waterfall to being here, today and
tomorrow.
What wondrous alliances parents beget
making joyous our road as it goes round
and round.

Treasured family tree is green, alive. Pine
cones fall producing new life. Roots burrow
deep while branches seek spores wishing
to join.

Open to lessons of lineage, life plants her wishes
everywhere.



by Edward Hunter