SYMBIOSITY

[PHOTO SOURCE:  Courtesy of Stephan R Richardson Senior]
 

(6 Feb 2011 –

RECIPROCITY:

There is one word, which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's Life – reciprocity [~Confucius].   

SYMBIOSITY:  

A close relationship where each member Benefits.  [~dht -- My definition—my 'coined word']

And so, a few words paired with a photo courtesy of a friend.)

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Live in symbiosity,

for our reciprocity.

Life's shadow long,

beacons' light gone.

Frailty hinders resolves,

for problems dissolved.

In singular fashion,

destiny does beckon.

Share life's boom,

weather the gloom.

Hold fast to dreaming,

'til final parting. 

Sing loud the lyrics,

for mine own withers.

Fortune rewards the fault,

while drowns the Heart.

Love endurance bound,

by time and interval. 

Where's the mutual,

for our communal.

Grace be the twine,

forever the minds.

Where the rule,

forgiveness' fool.

[Dorothy Hazel Tarr]

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In this offering:

What do you notice about the words?  Their meaning?  Sentence structure?  Pairing of Sentences?  First word, middle, or last words of Sentences?  What words could be substituted?  What connection words added for clarity?  What meaning of your own would you assign to these words, phrases, sentences?

--------------- OR, Why didn't you just say so!  ---------------

The topic is Living together in harmony for each other's Benefit.

The joy in your life may be shadowed with the heavy burdens of yesterday and today, so that the light in your eyes is dimmed.

Your inner strength has been 'taxed' beyond your endurance; and it's so hard to focus and address issues of yesterday, those issues that have resolved themselves, but not to your Benefit.

Fate has a way of getting its own 'way', so why 'fight' the inevitable!

Share your joy with others; what goes-around-comes-around they say, so maybe others will share their joy with you and help you somehow to get through the difficult times in your life.

Don't give up the 'ship' too early; but, keep faith and hope as your close companions, until you at last are laid to rest beneath the flowers!

Put a smile on your face although your Heart is 'bleeding'.

Fate does not recognize the good-bad-or-ugly; those in the 'wrong' may be rewarded and Benefit from their actions-inactions, while you cry your eyes out over the injustice of it all!

The LOVE you hold in your Heart has to be contained, for it must respect the boundaries of time and frequency of contact or respect the limits set by the BELOVED.

Life is not always an equality of give-and-take.

By the grace of God, may we be always connected, if not in body (physical closeness), then hopefully in spirit (long distance or after death).

Where is it written that you have to keep 'turning the other cheek' and forgive transgressions repeatedly—does this make you the 'fool' for trying beyond Hope?

[Dorothy Hazel Tarr]

LOST - Dreams, Hopes, Trust

           

 

[Photo Source: Google online images]

(24 NOV 2010 --   Every year the grief and pain that are my constant companions threaten to overwhelm my Spirit.  Once there was Hope and Trust in my Dreams for a Life full of "Life's" little Joys.  Now no Joys await me, no anticipation, no hopeful future, no Dreams of what will be.  The tears flow as untamed waterworks on my cheeks setting into the fine lines that the winds of time and storms of my Life have set.  Is there time enough to get my emotional bearings again?  Is there time enough to forget?  Is there time enough to forgive?  The gut shuddering cry-sessions these past decades, the day dreams, the nightmares, the minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades – are spent in a well of depression -- with my memories and mementos.  Lost forever are the remnants of Family Life, of marriage, and children.  dht)

How do I find my way now?

I am so "lost" in my grief!

I dwell far too much, on what I have Lost!

My Life has been irrevocably shattered, since I have Lost the ones most Dear to my Heart!

I have been in a day-to-day survival mode for years – decades really – and the only way for me to survive is to just forge ahead and not look into the Past at what Was or Could Have been!

My nocturnal dreams are filled with visions of Life as it was and how it might have been.  At times, my dreams are of a horrendous nightmare that plays out night after night.  And when I try to 'touch' them or connect with them, their substance is Lost, and they become a false reality – a false mirror of Hope.

No healing seems to be taking place.  Lessons learned the hard way tell me to expect nothing from Life or People and to take each day one at a time.

A part of me deep inside, longs for a Family Connection.  I have reached out to my daughter, spouse, and sister at various times in my Life in an attempt to make a connection beyond the superficial and estranged one they shared.

With the absence of my daughter's and spouse's and sister's Love, I Lost my sense of self-worth, my sense of confidence, my sense of identity, of belonging, of family, and have surrendered to a Life of Depression!

My Dreams of a Life filled with Love, Laughter, and Passion are Lost.

Where are the compassion and companions that will listen to my fears, sorrows, and almost everything that is in my Heart – only my "pen" and "journal".

One Life touched by a few -- now Lost.  One Life now but a drop in an ocean of humanity.  One Tear but a drop in an ocean.

[Dorothy Hazel Tarr – 2010]

[Photo Source: Google online images]