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Playfulness in an Ageless Christmas – Original Inspirational Poetry. Also linked to dVersepoet’s dVerse Christmas poem under the tree posting.
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playfulness in an ageless christmas – original inspirational poetry
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Intro
it’s hard to imagine christmas without a vision of a child…
and it’s almost impossible for me to see a child without seeing its playfulness –
and i cannot believe that i, myself, looking back on my own memories of myself, and seeing all the new children bounding now about, that i no longer have that playfulness within me, even if somewhat changed 😉
i’ve begun to think that, it is the “perceived” loss of our own playfulness, that leads to the two paths of thought i’ve written about, below the poem : celebrity worship, and the younger/older is-wiser side-road
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Playfulness in an Ageless Christmas
when we were children
sparkles lit upon
all we’d
see
our supple bones
soft-headed fast-growing
gave a playfulness to our lives
bouncing! eager –
from
toy to toy – joy to joy!
life’s promise
radiated
fragrant teas and herbs from
within our hearts
our minds at one with what we felt
and now..that we are older
and our winters have
sometimes
forgotten how long the springs
remain so fertile within us
our bones
now hard-headed slow-growing
less supple
yet
stronger…
give a calmness..to our play
we know
we will smile again and taste
the simple fun of finding
there is always
someone
new
being born
bearing bones of cartilage
and eager to find the feeling of finding
fun
with someone just like us.
© 2011 adam light creations / adan lerma
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Ben Stein
a friend of ours in san antonio, who we met when we lived in galveston, sent me an email ecstatic about something ben stein had said…
i couldn’t find the email, which i’m sure i’ve labeled and stored somewhere safe 😉 but a google search found me numerous references to his christmas thoughts
there were several, all good, but evidently it was one he said a few years ago on the cbs sunday morning show, that our friend in san antonio sent us
one of my favorite lines in that piece is,
“where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him?”
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only thing i’d disagree with him on, is, “I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old…” –
something some of my fellow old(er) friends are too quick to agree with at times, i think
and, in context, is actually kinda funny when ben stein said it, but…
it’s obvious, from the idealism i grew up with in the 60s, and the idealism we see now in the “occupied” camps around the world, (and disregarding the merits of the idealism in each instance) that celebrity worship, in financial circles as much as in the entertainment world, is not something repellent to the older crowd alone…
playfulness, in the sense of give and take, might here be useful for all of us
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Yoga
and to be fair, celebrity worship is equally rampant within the yogic community
not too surprising, since yoga, despite claims to the contrary, is still a human attempt to attempt the impossible but necessary –
to make sense of our selves and the world we live in –
…whether 5000 years ago, during british imperialism, or in a modern yoga studio complete with organic mats, certified music, imported incense, and buy-local water and snacks
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Final Thoughts
this “thinking” then that a view is held or not held because we are older, or because we aren’t older, is simply the same view chasing itself across our years –
it is a celebrity worship of our own years alone…
time is playing with us, teasing us
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thus, as in this poem, the child is born aching for reciprocal play from those older than itself, and those of us now older, yearn with gratitude of remembrance and welcome, at the sight of (most) little ones 😉
the spirit of christmas is ageless –
a timeless, giving spirit –
carrying its playfulness to us….
namaste´- con dios – god be with you
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this poem is also linked to dVersepoet’s dVerse Christmas poem under the tree prompt.
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