Solitude for RDP and CFFC

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Solitude

Borne, then born.
Clothed, fed, shorn.
Housed and cuddled,
brain filled and muddled.
Schooled, polished, allowed to roam,
to make the world into a home.
Later settled, now sedate.
Content to let my life abate.

Find worlds inside and there abide,
to let what happens be my guide.
To try to live with less precision.
To fear less the world’s derision.
Why so hard to be oneself?
Easier when on the shelf.
Now here I pull my world around me,
memories and dreams surround me.

My solitude a crystal jar
that lets me ponder from afar
the current of my life, its tide,
to reach without and pull inside
the things that help me try to see
just where my life has taken me.
I contemplate and sometimes share
the truths that I’ve discovered there.

I’ve  come to read, to judge  and learn.
I’ve finally learned how to discern!

 

For RDP: Solitude
and for CFFC: Evening

11 thoughts on “Solitude for RDP and CFFC”

    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Thanks, Dan. I took the photo from the porch of the house I used to rent at the beach in La Manzanilla, Mexico. I really did start going to the beach for the reasons described in the poem, but as you might imagine, “the world” finds us everywhere and solitude again became difficult to claim. That said, involvement has its own rewards. Nice if one can find a balance.

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  5. Melanie Fitzgerald's avatarMelanie Fitzgerald

    Hi Judy!  Melanie Goff-Fitzgerald here.  Nice poem in retrospection of our lives.  I hope you are having a good day.  One of my retrospections involves my visit to you in Aijic.  It was a good one.

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      1. Melanie Fitzgerald's avatarMelanie Fitzgerald

        yes mam, in ,Nevada. Do you recall a long time ago I told you I didn’t have time enough to read your writings? The reason is I love your writings so very much they make me stop in place and contemplate until I come out of it.

        Judy – I can’t believe I am saying this but I haven’t read a book in years where reading books was my primary solitude activity. Do solitude and activity go together? Today I am totally addicted to what my iPad offers and it is my reading source and, in fact occupies most of my day. Sharon sent me her photos of the great birthday party and I saw your photo many times talking to one or another. My thoughts on seeing you were, ‘that is sweet, Judy engages with others so well and each photo showed you in conversation.’ Another thought was I wanted to be present to converse with you as well. I think of you as a national treasure in what you do and say. Love to you Judy. Melanie

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          Ah Melanie..I am actually seeing your message so we must be doing something right. I was hoping you’d be able to come to Sharon’s birthday..It was a very special time. What kind of books do you like to read?

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