The inconvenient truth

   I

Repetition of lies does not make things true
Repeating, repeating, just layers around the inconvenient truth

Creating straight lines between historic points
Imposes another reality upon the inconvenient truth

Story telling can be creative, adding nuance to
Data attempting to disarm the inconvenient truth

Trying to capture a thought as it happens
Leaves ones hands wet with the inconvenient truth

Is thought just words or are there other aspects
Perhaps harder to grasp than the inconvenient truth

Light breeze bends branches tipped with buds about
To blossom reinvigorating the inconvenient truth

  II

Galileo's lens construed science to exclude consciousness 
Which is really the most inconvenient truth

Everything has to be great or greater than
Repetition adds invisible clothes to the inconvenient truth

Reducing science to measurable metrics avoided 

Offending the Church with the inconvenient truth

Returning to the natural, biological ways
Leads science to the inconvenient truth

“Tears and fears, and feeling proud, to say
‘I love you’ right outloud” reveals the inconvenient truth

Repetition of scientific truths gives life, breath
And hope for those who know the inconvenient truth

So Sherlock, having looked at thought from both sides now
Are you reconciled with the inconvenient truth

sherzal: commonwealth

  I

She brought her carriage to the car parked next to me in the Walmart “pick up” row, turning she breaks into sobs, surprising me, waiting for my common good

“There aren’t enough of us in there, there are so many of them…” and more sobs, leaving me meditating, waiting for my common good

“He’ll come back and save us, she says with a gleam” 

 I then realize what she is stating, waiting for my common good

I am sorry to disagree, I don’t believe that will be the case.

If he does come back, there’ll be more hating, waiting for our common good

My package was delivered and loaded, I thanked the young man, closed my vehicle and began relocating, waiting with my common good

She is standing still, lost somewhere. I start my vehicle

But can't move until she does, it's frustrating, waiting for my common good

  II

She starts unloading her carriage, I get out to help

Frustration to action translating, liberating our common good

I helped, lifting her last bag from the cart, placing it next to the others, then reached for the cart indicating, relocating the common good

Bumper sticker aside, there was another way to take her comment  "he'll come back", restating, narrating the common good

The world is in turmoil, disaster screams in all the headlines

We can keep hydrating, deflating for the common good

I do maintain hope that together we can figure this out 

Many of us came here migrating, fixating on the common good

We can put aside the differences the media and social apps

Exaggerate to the nth degree, inflating, debating the common good

We can find within us the source, the love, that conquers all

And go about collating, creating for the common good

sherku: hearts of kindness

masked or not,
life on the edge
or not, let’s find 
within ourselves
hearts of kindness

created to accompany the "hearts of Kindness" displayed as it returned to the Franklin Town Common this week -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2022/02/hearts-of-kindness-return-to-town-common.html

Photo album can be found online -> https://photos.app.goo.gl/zmbQif3AKSz3j3D86

sherku: hearts of kindness

sherku: push and shove

When this old world
Starts to push
And shove me,
Need to be still
And let God love me



What is a sherku?


almost a sherku as written by  RCHIE P. JORDAN, NAOMI MARTIN

sherku: the gist

Steve Farber
“do what you love
in the service
of people who love
what you do”


What is a sherku?


A "found" poem as it all comes from Steve Farber's renewed book Radical Leap

sherku: wedding

Laura let
Jeremy get
away the first time
wasn't about to
this time


For Laura and Jeremy!

What is a sherku?

sherku: love is

What can one say
About sanderssays
He is a love cat
Making us richer


What is a sherku?


For Tim Sanders, the original 'love cat'

sherku: Valentine's Day

Three stones depict past
Present, and future
One ring; our life
Our love, together


What is a sherku?

Sherku: Lydia

too many stories
over hot chocolate
Lydia sings of
faithless love



What is a sherku?


Originally tweeted on 12/11/10 and then posted at
http://steves2cents.blogspot.com/2010/12/east-of-shirley-evening-by-sherku.html

sherku: until you love (2)

Seeing the danger
You are separate from the world

Until you love what is

What is sherku?

Inspired by Bryon Katie's commentary in Ode, March 2008

sherku: until you love (1)

Until you love what is
You are separate from the world

Seeing the danger

What is sherku?

Inspired by Bryon Katie's commentary in Ode, March 2008

Jeopardy (Love for 800, please): "I love you"

What after 25 years

Married is the thing to say

On Valentine’s Day

What is a sherku?

For Dolores