NAPKIN WORDS #4 2011 - Dedicated to Mike Prevor

1. THOSE MIGHTY PEAKS
The mountains of time are there to climb.

Wondrously, anyone can try.

Always with this warning:

Should you fall, bones might break, or even
death might occur.

Be careful but don’t refuse to accept the
challenge of those mountains of time.

Always be brave to accept the dare. It has
been done by others. It can be done by you!

2. HERE IS THE QUESTION
Where was life when you asked?

One time or another, I am certain that you
took the time to ask this question.

The important thing is:

Where were you when it answered?

3. HARD LIFE EASY
When you experience the toil of employment,
then rush home to the relaxation of love!

4. YOUR FLOW OF WORDS
If you say what you think, other people
can never interpret your words to mean
something else.

Sadly, this only holds true as an ideal.

Did you speak too fast? Did others hear
all your words? Was the situation tense?
Were there other distractions when you
spoke?

These are just a few of the many reasons
the “ideal” hardly ever is met!

5. DOORWAYS
Each day we must exit something and enter
something, be it a conversation, a relationship,
a kindness offered, or an insult tendered.

No matter how you entered, insure that when
you exit, you leave others wishing your return!

6. RARE SOMETHING ABOUT LEARNING
We become so much wiser because the very
best student decides to teach, instead of going
into finances, business, or even worse, never
end their study, never start to teach!

7. LIFE JUDGE
Be innocent of crimes, guilty of thoughts for others!

CHILDREN, CRAYONS AND FROGS

A world of frogs has drama I'm certain, still I
have no idea of the taste of a fly captured while
in sudden flight.

Swift eyes of a child enjoying wondrous great leaps
of hungry amphibians breaks a moment, causes
a grin.

Motivating that mischievous youth to open an
orange box of magical colors. Sketching on
pure white paper scenes of vaulting life,
swallowed instant death.

Quickly, she draws from her memory. Allowing
frogs dull green skin to turn shocking pink. While
coloring its lightning tongue shades of ebony slick
black, bright raspberry red.

That buzzing fly who almost miraculously escaped,
is now preserved forever, a tragic monument in a translucent stomach now colored white.

Such are joys of rivers, logs...poetic writings of happy children, crayons and now missing frogs.

by Edward Hunter