How now
brown cow
I want to live
in the NOW.
Yes
I'll live for the moment
that's what I'll do
and blind myself
to all the rest
like Mister Magoo.
Hey, that was a good one...
it just went by so fast
it eluded my grasp.
WHOOSH--there's another!
and another
and another
and another
Now I'm spinning round
snatching wildly at nothing.
HEY-- c'mere ya li'l sumbitches!
How can I know
what living in the moment is like
when the moment is passing me by
in the blink of an eye?
That's an enigma
wrapped in a riddle
topped with a sigh.
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
all vying for space inside my brain
it's driving me insane
and that is truly a pain
in
the
ASS.
Don't mean to be crass...
but it's making me crazy
think I'll just have to pass
and not think about it anymore.
Yeah, that's the ticket!
I just won't THINK
about it anymore.
I'll just stay quiet
and close my eyes
and get into the lotus position...
Damn!
Gonna have to master
that lotus position
one day...
Well
no time
like the PRESENT...
heh heh
OHM...OHM...
LOL. I actually did try to live in the moment, the day after yesterday.
ReplyDeleteIt went like this, "I'm walking, I'm walking faster....
OHM-My-God, too funny! That's about how it goes- and add no short term memory into the mix and one can be BLISSFUL!!!!!!!!!!! My brutha! From anuthah muthah!
ReplyDeletesmiles...the trick is living in the next moment...just one ahead...it is def not easy living in the now...but concious of the moment and all that is going on around me is where i try to stay...
ReplyDeleteThat position is sure tricky..ha..ha... enjoyed the message delivered in a fun way ~
ReplyDeleteThis is my kind of poetry,
ReplyDeleteespecially like the first stanza, easy flow and fun flow.
__That's today; thank goodness for yesterdays, as we drive to the fore, the shining nails of tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteyesterday
its rusty hammer drives
tomorrows nails
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Oooo! Oooops, M&Ms. (Rusty?)
ReplyDeletebeautiful treatment.
ReplyDeletewhat a fun read.
very touching...i can relate to it very much
ReplyDeleteYeah, I hear ya! :-)
ReplyDeleteAnother good one, I love it!
That's a cute way of looking at it, THINGY. Hey SHERRY...no short term memory--ignorance is bliss!
ReplyDeleteBRIAN--that's a neat trick if you can do it. Thanks, HEAVEN...you're the expert on different positions! Good to see you again, CELLO STRINGS. The child is father to the man, eh MAGYAR?
MORNING, DeLi, SUSANNAH: Come in me pretties, come in...
il give the lotus position a miss and just stretch out reading this upside down tim is fun lol xxjen
ReplyDeleteI'm totally with you on that, I will think more when I medidate than I ever think ...
ReplyDeletethere is a way, doing very mundane things, you know vacuuming or anything of the kind, your mind goes in boring neutral then genius comes through
Loved your comment about the birthday suit. I missed that. I think it's funny that the word "embarrassed" seems to say "I'm bare assed," which has relevance for my post and yours.
ReplyDeleteCOLLEEN: Thanks. Let's go skinny-dipping!
ReplyDeletelove it, Timo. your poems very often make me feel like i should top them with a sigh.
ReplyDeletewait, that sounds kinda dirty. i didn't mean... oh, what the hell. SIGH
MARIAN: How 'bout some whipped cream on top?
DeleteDon't know whether to laugh or cry .. so I'll just sigh. GREAT WRITE, yes I'm shouting!
ReplyDeleteHELEN: Thank you so much, dahlink!
Delete__So many things to contend with... making you crazy, again, and again, and over again. Sometimes it seems like: You're the only fire-hydrent at the dog show!
ReplyDelete_m
That's like being the only port-a-pottie at a beer drinking contest!
DeleteIt's all one big NOW! Funny poem!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sunshine!
Deletevery witty and smart. the levity and the short contemporaneous cliche blurbs did their job of keeping us in the NOW!!! the lotus 'thingy'was intended for long slim legged with 'nothing' in between species. i did it once then i woke up.
ReplyDeletegracias mi amigo (p.s. i thought a lotus was a sports car?)
… so funny. If we actually lived in the moment - there would be no grudges, no revenge. Obviously we have a long way to go!
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