Fredisms

There is a community
for all of life.

Let’s find it
and be beacons for others.

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In the super market

I watched the mothers
Carrying their babies.

‘I miss being a parent’,
then thought again.

‘I miss being carried.’

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I call it Quiet passage

from else where
to here [a pit stop]

and off again.
Natives mention

hollow bones.

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Sense

Does this/that make sense?
is a question

Who am I?
is a better question

I AM beyond words,
so you take it from here.

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“Hey Woman”

I met a female
acquaintance

and thought
‘hey girl’.

and thought
would I say
‘hey boy’.

and said
‘hey woman’.

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Treasure Hunt

No need to hunt
outside your home.

Each in out breath
is a bless’d treasure.

Have one right now
long in, long out,

relax and smile.

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Crunches

Bare feet
On thin ice

Over Arctic water.

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why the fear of doing being saying
to who about what when where?

before flesh in flesh after flesh
who knows before and after?
You?

doing being saying
is only in flesh.

before has gone
after is coming
now is now

Do Be Say it now
Now is all I AM.

Ducks say quack quack quack.
Dogs say woof woof woof.
We go yack yack yack.
Is there a difference?

Ducks and Dogs can relate
with each and every mate.
We study books and the law
and still can’t communicate.

When ducks and dogs get cross
they duke it out to be boss.
Yet, there is a difference.
They are one with nature.

We think, talk and write about
this and that important story.
What I hear down at the lake
is woof quack yakety-yak.

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The dog,
my friend
Kaia died.

With no love
for an other
filling in,

my days
wither,
Quietly.

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What you gonna do
when they come for you?

flight
fight

pew
folks will pray for you.

Gun violence
in America.

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She came back.

IN YOUR DREAMS!!!

She came back.
He came back.

Back in the good ol’ days.
I wish I was back there.

Let’s wake up.
There is no back.

When we return
through that door

each and every step
offers a new choice.

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On who what where
and how can I focus

when what we call truth
is full of hocus-pocus?

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Fear
I have it enough
to know flight or fight
is my first response.

Deer in the head lights
frozen in between
this and that.

Knowing
I AM that I AM
rarely enters the picture.

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How far can it fall
from the tree?

When you get to the core
apple is apple,

no matter what you call it.
a Spiritual perspective

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Talk to with me
I say
wrapped in this blue terry robe
leaning forward
on left elbow and right hand
moving the TUL
needlepoint pen.

Why to with . . .?
I some times talk to others.
Talking with others is a step up.
Receive Ingest Respond
Ingest Share Listen
One way is ‘me says’
The other is ‘we share’

All that to say the TUL
is my favorite writing tool.

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a warm body belly snuggle cuddle

you got it?

yeah, me too.

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191

The time is near

my old friend said

as the train approached the station.

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No Thing has arrived.

Imagine greeting no thing
at the front door.

No clothes. No body. No thing.

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SEER, please speak loud and clear.

Rumble off the mountain tops
Rain fire upon the living
Flood the lands with salt.

Wash away the characters
including strong and survive
and live and love, all 26.

No more characters.
Now what?
No more characters.

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Some one says
You’re so honest.

I say
Seeds must be planted
to get results.

Honest seeds reap honesty.
Honesty starts at home.

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for you brown fearin’ lyin’ folks . . .

for you folks that fear brown,
get over through under it.

Once you go brown,
there’s no turning around.

for you folks that say one thing and mean another,
when lies meet truth, you flying up or burning down?

Meanwhile,
I’m gonna jus sit here and jot down the words.

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4 Questions!

My memory is not yours,
so let us decide now.

I have one foot in heaven,
another in fiery coals.

Yes or No?

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In 1787 negotiators agreed that cows were 3/5ths of the whole. 
In 1865 that law was rendered obsolete. 
Cows, slaves, same thing , right?
In the 1950’s and 60’s Malcolm X began using ‘Black’
and ‘Afro-American’.
Before then, common names were nigger and Negro.

Question!
When did Afro-Americans become fully-accepted Americans?

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When spirit has flown the coop,
why is the coop entombed,
and held in reverence?

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Isn’t it odd

Isn’t it odd the news
left and right
is about D. Trump?

Words get away from me. Some times,
they have their own guidance,
separate from mine.

They (the words) leave me (this guy) in the dust.
When the dust clears, I witness what has transpired.
“Where did that come from?”

Put your self in Her place.
If She does regard,

Mother Nature doesn’t regard one state more important
than any other. Not yours. Not mine. Not another.
Mother Nature just is.
No judgement or conditions.

I hear death is out
(was going to say sex)*
of the question.

Why? I hear

It feels so far away
and hear it is
a ticking heart.

*another short story

What’s there to question

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If spirit in one fell swoop,
revealed all of our darkest secrets
and prevented us from harboring more,

(stripped us naked so to speak)
there’d be mayhem and the world
that we know would change for ever.

SLAVE

It’s not black and white.

Aren’t we slaves to food and sex, power and possession,
life and love, hoping and wishing, yesterday and tomorrow ?

Think about it!

Most of all, I’m a SLAVE to me, mine, mind.

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*****

Folks say,
I wanna’ find God!

I hear,
Look no further.
I AM that I AM.

I AM all ways here.

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171b

Been there. Done That.

Listening to NPR
‘the Moth’ stories

I dance
I dance to my own beat.

Sometimes,
that means stepping on toes.

There I was, confidently losing weight.

Today, the scale revealed a 10 pounds gain.

That mind is a world-class character, to befriend.

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here at Eglon Beach

4 men stand in the shallow surf
casting their Silent Lures
for salmon.

Mayonnaise & Children
have some thing in common.
They both evolve from eggs.

Some folks will say mayonnaise
Is not a they.

I say
‘If that makes you feel good, stick with it’.

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a Bit of History

Mr. Trump has widened a wound, never fully closed and still festering, since Europeans landed on these shores and brought weapons, religion, a vision of riches, measles, smallpox, cholera, savagery to kill ‘savages’, and wiped out 90% of the indigenous people.

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What are your true colors?
Open and See

canvas sails touch the sky
ever so slowing
moving by.

a blue field
Spring meadow
pink lily dripping dew.

before words.

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Wishing and Hoping  ain’t  Doing and Being.
Which appeals to you more?

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Good Friends

We left Vietnam,
with our friends
hanging from choppers.

‘Trees are our friends too’.

A verbal written voice speaks up.
loud and clear.

“I can’t physically prevent you
from putting ME in the world.

A more effective protest is through
Mind’s Eye.

You look down and see what I AM thinking.
out loud.

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Evening tides,
a dark seascape,
on a moonless night.

A foot in time,
one still behind,
not here, not there.

Eat your heart out.
If no light pours through,
do it again.

a Flurry of Words

It’s all about me, don’t you think?

Thinking may raise Demons, Goddesses, the stink of Turd Town, built in another land.

Thinking is not feeling.

Thinking is crinkling my face and scrunching down to avoid day and night, the wind-carried ash,
landing like snow.

Here, we flush our solid waste.
Turd Town incinerates theirs’.

Which way is best, do you think?

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Peak Living

A man was surrounded by peaks,
and woke only after knowing the valley
and all in between.

the Buddha

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Words can’t hurt you.
Actions can.

“Hang ’em high!”

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You wanna live?
Make waves.

Big little
fast slow.

don’t matter.
Make waves.

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The Nature of Nature.

We plant and grow apples.
Bugs eat the apples.
We spray the fruit and kill the bugs.
The bugs evolve and eat the sprayed fruit.
We use stronger spray to kill the bugs.

We eat the apples.

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When I am balanced in moments and in between,

what more or less is there?

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Floating downstream is easier than fighting the current,
yet
resistance to pressure creates a diamond.

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We like happy faces on Facebook.
We avoid the face of pain, suffering and death.

Some folks experience all these faces in their day to day lives.

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all that to say,

Head Land, Heart Land, and Now Land
balanced

is . . . I AM  . . . land.

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140

To the bathroom mirror I said, ‘You look pregnant’.

Looking and being pregnant are very different.
One is a story, the other an experience.

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Excellence and Mediocrity don’t co-exist,
without one affecting the other.

When one seeks excellence without question,
avoid mediocrity.

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I love you sweetie.
I love you so much,
when I think how much,
my heart spills everywhere.

That’s what I said to Kaia this morning.

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If I had the choice of owning a gold mine or a creative mind,
which would I choose?     Which would you choose?

This is where question 1 comes into play?

A friend just reminded me, ‘Your creative mind is the gold mine’.

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‘Better times ’round da corner.’

That’s what they say in church. They say,
‘It’s better upstairs and worse downstairs.
Pray to go up, sin to go down’.

I say, ‘Tell me what to do on this floor now,
not yesterday or tomorrow. I’ll ask for guidance,
when I am in those places’.

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I sometimes mix up Indians.

There are India Indians and American Indians.

India Indians are named after the Indus River.
American Indians are named after an error.

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Test 1

Some of what equals sum?

or

Sum of what equals some?

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Why did we drop an atomic bomb
“To save lives”.

twice?
“To confirm consistent results”.

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Love a Spade

Even a spade may be an instrument of salvation.
When that’s all you have to dig up weeds,
and plant new seeds,
Kings and Queens don’t matter.

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Life is one big learning lesson,
that can be divided into days, hours, minutes and seconds.

Each of these being separate experiences,
taken together, called life.

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Some Thing & No Thing

Some Thing lives on the hill.
No Thing lives in the flood plain.

One day Some Thing looks down
and thinks out loud, ‘I want No Thing’.

Question: How many things do I need, to know joy?

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You wanna’ stand up? Just do it!

You wanna’ stand out? Stand up!

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