Friday, April 9, 2010

A birthday poem


When I got up this morning, a bald eagle swooped by and perched in the tree I can see from my bed... He's still there!

Radical

Unearth your roots

Shake ‘em at the sky

Uphold your traditions

Hold up your radical

Hold down your fort

Breathe easily, not queasily

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Find and mine what’s obvious

By opening your eyes wider

Wide enough to take in

What you thought was forever outlawed

Wide enough to put out

A part of you you forgot

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Love more

Love your weird self

Love what’s aching to come out

Love what struggles to get in

Unbind your weariness

And offer it to the sunrise

Express your weird self but

Keep it simple

Don’t be afraid to ask

And unlearn whatever’s holding you back

-- Stephen Silha, April 9, 2010 (my 60th birthday)

30 comments:

X. P. Callahan said...

Happy 60th, dear Stephen, all the way from beautiful Oakland. I remember when you turned up on my Vashon doorstep on the morning of my 50th (11 long years ago now), bearing a beautiful piece of dark green glass that today graces one of the bookcases in my office. Hope your birthday was grand and that the year to come will be also.

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育淑 said...

It is never too late to learn. .................................................................

則義 said...

世間是非,要如水泥地般水過則乾。................................................................

許紀廷 said...

幸福不是一切,人還有責任。....................................................................

王瑞 said...

生存乃是不斷地在內心與靈魂交戰;寫作是坐著審判自己。......................................................................

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成熟,就是有能力適應生活中的模糊。.................................................................

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人生之中,比冒險更危險的一件事:不去冒險。..................................................

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人生最可憐的是半途而廢,最可悲的是喪失信心,最遺憾的是浪費時間,最可怕的是沒有恆心。..................................................

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祝福您春風得意。............................................................

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皇紫勳紫勳豪 said...

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于庭吳 said...

我們能互相給予的最佳禮物是「真心的關懷」。.................................................

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