This Present Moment – by Bruce Whealton">This Present Moment – by Bruce Whealton
Published March 31, 2009 | 
">Bruce WhealtonThis Present Moment
I live now in the here
and now.
I concentrate and focus my attention
in what I am doing -
thinking neither about what I want
or what I have
or what I've had.
It makes it easier.
I used to be asked to think of goals.
This would help in the job search
(don't employer's ask you,
"where do you see yourself in 1 year or
5 years?”)
not to mention in self-definition
and in general goal setting.
I'm not saying I have some fear
of some disaster
that will befall me
or the world...
yes, some say the world is ending.
It's just easier
to not think of these things -
the future, one's goals,
where one is going
or what one wants.
I'm too frightened to examine
or analyze my life.
I just keep busy
at things
in the here
and now.
Please don't read
anything good into this -
some zen Buddhist wisdom -
you'd be misunderstanding.
By Bruce Whealton – March 2009
The Birth of the Poet – Poetry by Bruce Whealton">The Birth of the Poet – Poetry by Bruce Whealton
Published March 22, 2009 | ">Bruce WhealtonThis was recently published in “the thin edge of staring, ” and it is available here. But I wanted to make a couple edits.
Birth of the Poet
I wonder if one can be reborn
as a poet,
leaving one life behind
and entering into a new life
and a new identity…
becoming a new person.
Don’t they say that
our inspiration is from
the spirit -
whatever that might mean?
For me
this transformation
was not one of leaving behind
what the Bible might call
a sinful life
for one of a higher calling -
no, my basic nature now,
is the same as it was 10 years ago
and 10 years before that.
For me, the transformation
was one of finding self discovery
and then self expression.
The shy boy I was
for those first 24 or so years
of my life
did not even consider
making himself known
or expressing himself…
he hid himself
was unknown
and didn’t think he had anything
to say.
Sometimes it seems
that I’m still invisible.
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