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    The Poems
    The Poems
    The Poems
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    The Poems

    By Blair Smith

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    These free verse "poems" do not follow the traditional requirements of rhyme and meter. My sense is that, in the end, content out surpasses form. Initially, my intent was to create a "thought heirloom" for my children and their progeny in hope that future family souls I may never meet or know might at least know me through my writings. Early on, I started sharing "the poems" with my brother Clark and then, with his encouragement, began to share them with my super kids, Kiera, Jake and Trent. Then, thanks to their positive reaction, I took a leap of faith and posted a few on Facebook and sent a wider sample to close friends. Once again, I was encouraged by positive feedback all around which led me to broaden my thoughts to include publishing "the poems" for general consumption. Thank you in advance for reading them. I sincerely hope you take away a thought or two that will add to your life.

    Recurring themes include the folly of "Human Certainty" and my urge to always keep questioning; the absolute need for inner balance brought by continual cultivation of "Emotional Intelligence"; the human disregard for and rape of "Mother Earth" and the urgency to heal our womb of life; and, occasional "Sprinklings of Humor" and "Irony" for after all, man has proven to be both funny haha and funny peculiar. - Blair Smith

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlair Smith
    Release dateNov 21, 2018
    ISBN9780463736050
    The Poems
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    Blair Smith

    Blair Smith is a retired airline pilot who splits his time living between Arizona and Alaska. In his youth Blair was either driving a tractor on his Farther's farm in Montana or surfing and playing basketball in southern California. After playing basketball in College he entered a flight school in Billing, Montana and earened several pilots licenses that allowed him get hired by a major airline were he worked for thirty five years. Blair married his wife a few days before getting hired to the airlines and they raised five precious children together. Blair has always been very active and has engaged in a variety of diversions with his wife and kids, from radio controlled airplanes to windsurfers, water skiing to snow skiing, hunting big game to fishing, racing catamarans to flying Ultra Light airplanes and turning out beautiful pens on a mini lathe. Blair and his family did every thing while he continued flying Boeing 747s around the world. Blair met his second wife in Alaska and helped raise her two children. He has seventeen grandchildren and has high hopes for more. His health, which has slowed him down, has given him the time the write this and other books. He really enjoys writing and says the stories that are in him seem to be bursting to get out.

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      The Poems - Blair Smith

      These free verse poems do not follow the traditional requirements of rhyme and meter. My sense is that, in the end, content surpasses form. Initially, my intent was to create a thought heirloom for my children and their progeny in the hope that future family souls I may never meet or know might at least know me through my writings. Early on, I started sharing the poems with my brother Clark and then, with his encouragement, began to share them with my super kids, Kiera, Jake, and Trent. Then, thanks to their positive reaction, I took a leap of faith and posted a few on Facebook and sent a wider sample to close friends. Once again, I was encouraged by positive feedback all around which led me to broaden my thoughts to include publishing the poems for general consumption. Thank you in advance for reading them. I sincerely hope you take away a thought or two that will add to your life.

      Recurring themes include the folly of Human Certainty and my urge to always keep questioning; the absolute need for inner balance brought by continual cultivation of Emotional Intelligence; the human disregard for and rape of Mother Earth and the urgency to heal our womb of life; and, occasional Sprinklings of Humor and Irony for after all, man has proven to be both funny haha and funny peculiar.

      -Blair Smith

      Table of Contents

      FORWARD

      CHAPTER 1

      CHAPTER 2

      CHAPTER 3

      CHAPTER 4

      CHAPTER 5

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      CHAPTER 1

      EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

      You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Gandhi

      The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it’s always your move. - Frank Crane

      ... denn da istkeineStelle,

      die dich nichtsieht. Du musstdeinLebenandern.

      (... for there is no place that does not see you.

      You must change your life.) - Rainer Maria Rilke

      Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It is a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

      -Muhammad Ali

      One Moment in Annihilation’s Waste

      One moment, of the Well of Life to taste -

      The Stars are setting, and the Caravan

      Starts for the dawn of Nothing - Oh, make haste!

      -Omar Khayyam

      NOTHING

      There is a great freedom in coming from nothing

      free from attachments, free from circumstance

      free from definition, free from our past

      no words, no labels can get to us

      unless we come from something

      unless we are attached

      Coming from nothing is a shield

      against critics, against self

      the past is gone forever, the future not here

      only the present moment exists

      there are infinite possibilities in the present moment

      if we come from nothing

      Surrendering the past ends resistance,

      attachment and circumstance

      Surrendering to nothing creates possibility

      Only then is there free movement

      within which to create

      I choose to come from nothing

      Why do we assign meaning to our attachments?

      I’m starting to get that there is nothing to get

      I’m becoming satisfied with not being satisfied

      Just as I’m satisfied, I am not satisfied again

      There is really nothing to get

      when you are attached to nothing,

      nothing can get to you.

      Dedicated to my friend Jorge Haddock.... because it means nothing!

      We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -Seneca

      What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

      -Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890

      "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows

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