A good day to be alive my friend.

Each day is a opportunity to do something good.

  A good day to be alive my friend
                                 

                          (Can you Move? Can you Think? Do you have
                            the ability to do more? Life pleasures can't 
                            be reached locks up in sad and disappointing
                            lives. Get up. Reach out. No pity for those
                            swimming in self-pity.
                                 Too many years in the Army.
       Coyote)



Cornerstone of a good life are the kindness and love given and received.


Kind ancestors left us with gifts of love.
Needed to be passed on to our children.


Disappointment can barricade our mind and hearts.
We must breach the walls of disappointment.
Learn to celebrate being alive.


Correspond with your friends and family.
Tell them you miss and love them.


Remember lost friends.
Raised yourself up and fight the good fight.
Can't swim in self-pity.


Don't forfeit your dreams for someone else.


There are consequences for every action good or bad.


Aspire to touch the stars.
To dance on a lonely beach with a lover.
Sit at a park and watch your children play.


Thank the Spirit of life and death for one more day to be alive.

                   Coyote
                  12 Sept 1990





                     A prayer for the Water, Sky and the green Earth.


Thank you Spirit of life and death for this beautiful day.


Thank you for the Water, Sky and the Green Earth.


Teach me wisdom.
Kindness.
How to be humble.


Allow me to walk with my Brothers and Sisters in peace.


Allow us  to see a man or woman by the his deeds not the color of their skin.
Allow religion to be their personal choice.


Life is a road of a thousand decisions and journeys.
Please protect me on the road of life.


I pray the Spirit of life and death to forgive me for foolish
words said and deeds done.


Please give me strength and wisdom to do the right things.


Thank you for the sweet water that flow through my body and
keep my body and spirit clean.


Thank you for the blue sky and air that allowed me to walk
upon the Earth.


Thank you Green Earth.
Gifts of food to give me strength.


Thank you Spirit of Life and Death for one more day to be 
with my family and friends.



                     Coyote
                     1990




 

Reviews

[nono]

Hm, I guess it is! I wasn't even born when this was written :D haha! I like it though. I think it's amazing how you still have something from those years. All I have is a blanky my mom's best friend made for me! This poem is amazing, and as always your able to express it in such manners I don't think I ever could. Nice job!

[HorrorMaster]

really sad i enjoy it.

[Zoe]

Remember lost friends.

People should never forget this.

[Frifthor (D^2)]

A pair of lovely poems that go well together. I love the opening stanza in parenthesis, as it give a foundation feeling for you to base the rest of the work on. Your prayer for green earth is a beautiful mood to cap it off with. Well done once again.

[Andrew Wright]

Beauty, simple and pure. You've tapped into something good, my friend.

[MuSe Ampoule]

Very Nice Coyote! I especially like the prayer....it says it all.
One says get up and live,
the other says thank you so that I may live.

It's complete.

[Revolutionary]

i love reading your stuff and you are always so deep and soulful I would love to see you write about the person you are

[Kat]

I love your prayer for Water, Sky, and Green Earth. I would love to use it to greet each day if I could have your permission.

[Bette]

i love your words, wise. well done

[Desert Dreamer]

You speak truth...I needed to hear a few of these lines today...we all need to give and receive love. I am thankful to the earth ,the sky and the water every day for my life.

[An owl on the moon]

This is a stirring anthem of thanksgiving and hope, and yet I know you've seen the pain and misery as well. Just to wake in a new day should bring us to our knees.. that beautiful sense of the world that awaits.. You challenge us to live and love more deeply...