NAPKIN WORDS #42 2010

1. PROBLEMS OF TODAY
“A jug of wine, a loaf of bread,”*
is no longer enough.

Today, with all the wonder of those
written words, we now insist on asking,
“Where is the butter?”

*Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1048-1131)
From Wikipedia

2. THE PUZZLE
When the mind questions, from the future,
it is as if the past was of no importance!

3. SOME HAVE IT – OTHERS DO NOT
There is but one time that terrible taste
becomes a conundrum for others.

That is when the one who has the terrible
taste is placed in a position of power and
because of this power, now insists that those
he or she has power over, must now emulate
that terrible taste!

4. POETRY GIFT
Nothing is as joyous as what a poet
gives away to smiles of strangers!

5. IN YOUR FACE
A small hill is sometimes able to do exactly
the same as the Himalayan Mountains can
do.

Block your view of what lies beyond!

6. STUPIDITY
In Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, at the
end, when we are at last gone, we will
have gained nothing but mistakes.

We will find a million words to praise our
failures.

By that time, sadly, we will find that history will
have more than a million words, not one of praise!

7. BAD THOUGHT EXITING
Memory is just a hesitation of the mind,
failing to recall horrors best left behind!

8. IT IS OUT THERE
Anyone can go places.

It is the wise who learn the depths of the
places that they go to!

9. LEARNING THE SECRET
There is one way to discover anything
in life. Explore yourself!

NEWS TODAY

Our children volunteered
to go
to war.

Men now broken
by enemy hate,
those brittle sounds of
combat fire.

Sad is the one legged
man,
no, not a man, he is but
a kid,
barely any facial
hair nor
wrinkled skin.

Who drew those
stitches running from
eyebrow to jaw?

Every penny given
seems to break
his heart,
bury his soul.

With a look so bitter, he
stares at my
passing.

I succeed in
hiding
tears for his war
beneath dark
clouds of
a one-dollar
bill.

by Edward Hunter