NAPKIN WORDS #20 2011 - Dedicated to Mike Prevor

1. THAT MOTIVATING SKY
All stars can do is stimulate an imagination
that is curious!

2. BLACKBOARD LOGIC
Reason can argue about a problem.

Wisdom can erase it!

3. SIGHT WISE
Look: There is tomorrow.

See: Here is today!

4. ALL SPECIES FACE RISK
I was at my usual space at Le Bernardin,
when people nearby started to talk about
risk.

That very same afternoon, I had read about
thousands of blackbirds falling from the sky,
a huge amount of fish washed up dead, cause
unknown.

Life is risk, none know when, and that is wise!

5. WITH THE STRENGTH OF LOVE
Because of the heart, we each become giants!

6. UPON THE BOAT OF TIME
Life lives in tears, yet still it sails in seas
of happiness.

Why is but the question of our life boat, oars
are our hearts taking us from here to there!

7. CAPTURED MOVEMENT FREED
Time is not a question.

It is a demand that only you can fight.

Never be dormant while you are ticking.

Always remember that all who love you
are telling TIME not to count you out!

8. HERE IS HOW IT GOES
Without reaching, we touch nothing.

When we touch something, we should learn
what it is, why it was worth touching.

We are insured that we touch nothing if we
never stretch!

9. JUDGEMENT
Only you make life a pleasure or a punishment!

10. CONSTRUCTING STEPS
Always build on what you had to leave behind!

A POETS NIGHT

What we pen, when we write of children,
awake, asleep, is only of loss.

As we grew and failed promises, expectations.

When finally aged, upon well worn pillows, we
recall treasures when we were buds alive in
growth, our innocence.

Believing in a future of omens and flowering,
yet we cried when past flashed its frowning
smile, then fled swiftly into darkness raising
of ancient time.

Alone, we grew into laughter of adults, of age,
seeing all around signs of our tomorrow. For
past is a heavy impression upon everyone's bed,
while ticking movement, so silent and sweet,
in or out of our home, goes on its march
regardless of we.



by Edward Hunter