A Fool Can Learn to Be

A fool!

Yes, a fool,

chasing the need to ‘be someone’,

skirt tailing to be noticed,

waving a flag called success.

Oh you, 

you Yahoo!

Millennia have passed,

and still, we try to ‘become’. 

“Hahahahahahahaha!”

Can you hear it?

Can you hear the Everywhen?

He is bellowing, booming with laughter, 

at our meagre attempts 

to stitch ourselves into 

our own supercharged, 

intrinsically designed, 

intensely colourful,

purpose built,

embroidered life.

Stop, 

breathe …. 

Walk with me into the folds of nature.

Let us lose the path and walk beyond.

Let us walk until the sounds of ‘success' 

are all but a forgotten trickle in the stream.

Let us sit within nature, where life asks for nothing

and we too need naught.

Where 

the blade of grass grows just to grow,

the birds, bees and butterflies pillage the ever giving flora,

the wind passes just to pass, bringing with it a fresh burst of life,

the sun shines on with everlasting kisses on the backdrop our home,

natures food chain continues the cycle 

without a bawdy fight for any kind of fanfare.

Where life enters and leaves rather quietly,

in its own expression of time.

Stop,

breathe ….

Let us listen, to the unbecoming.

Let us too, unbecome.

Let us unravel, undo, unlearn, unknow. 

For this place

is where a fool can learn to ‘be’.

Author's Note

hit me with your best shot :) X LOVE X

Reviews

[Midsummer's Pint]

Hit it Babyy..
Best shot hmmm.. well depends which alcohol must quench---

Otherwise... there's pint of no return... turning of insides around at least... raveling self of hiding and for to be seeked...

It is better be man of wisdom but if not being one then most likely it is to be Fool, Jester-..- of a kinf Fool of Life... only i try fight him back... because if one let's him to take over.. it is nothing but your's...

So... yes... to go the the sidetracks.. explore.. no need to hury.. to see more to find what is needed to realize what either is missing or it is already gathered... but you just had to get to it to understand...

Whom ever is He... must have rather black humour with sarcastic undertone to vibrate though irony... give words to those who don't know but humourlessness... so satiric is that i'd believe..

So... more to depth? i'd do if i'd have the nerve right now... but come and seek... if maybe one cvould explore what is somewhere.. maybe?

So be Curious to let those thoughts come.. no need tpo judge them any ay but if not letting them to come true..

[KWP]

oh hello and well that was a review out of the blue and for that my friend I thank you ... to take it all in, remain equanimous then flow X

[sinNsincerity]

Hehe I took a decent breath after the way your wards stampeded towards my brain haha
Awesome!

[KWP]

aaahhhhh and on the exhale - is that smoke rings I see ;) - thanks you for the visit - always great to see you X

[sinNsincerity]

Of course...

[Valentine]

Sit with in nature and life seems to be asking for everything. So many not even willing to work for it. Valentine

[Reveal]

"to be..." I love it; it's like climbing to the mountain top while one has unlearned everything on the journey.

[Perkele.7885]

I tend to be a little too regulated a fellow most of the time to let my hair down and; oops... wait a moment right here; feaux pas, feaux pas...I am bald! Let me start again! most of the time to find the time to stop and smell the flowers and 'skip to the loo my Darling', whoa, wait a minute here! If I have to go to the 'loo' I am not going to be doing any skipping. Restart again! most of the time to find the time to relax on a porch swing during a thunder storm in a khaki summer suit before giving a speech at the Daughters of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Summer Supper Special for the Veterans of South Carolina's Korean WarVeterans.

[KWP]

and yet .... it all sounds like the perfect time :) especially singing whilst trotting off to the loo ... but you probably don't trot ... ahh you know what I mean X

[Perkele.7885]

I might amble if you know the urge is strong and I am wear a white 'sear-sucker'!

[Adam Adams]

In short, even a love can teach a fool. Love's everything and found even in winds, nature and in an every speck of breathe so, quite obviously, it's needed to get healed up with life. Very beautiful and poetically beautiful write you've come up with. I like the mixtures of ...

"Oh you, you Yahoo!"

You always write with full fun & peace holding the harmony of love to your heart. Nice imagery. It's absolutely a thoughtful write that's certainly a fun reading for sure.

[KWP]

oh hello you - nice to see you - nice to read your words too. You are right - love is the bind - it's always there - even when we forget - cheers you XX

[Adam Adams]

You rhythmic bimbo! Damn, you seemed more smoking than before... earlier before I met ya! Cheers ya too, Miss Sydney Writer xoxo

[KWP]

heh - indeed !

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

I've listened, KWP, and heard a lot of things while reading. Now I have analyse, unravel an unknow to really be what I should be. Thanks for sharing this beautiful poem. :) Rudi

[Einstein Noodle]

philosophical, spiritual breath ... Jesus is called (among other things) the breath of life ... thinking about those days i can see people at a birthing ... knowing that life is happening when that breath is taken .... and in death the last thing they see is that breath leaving ... its a powerful thing ...that breath ... thanks for reminding me ;) not sure about the passing wind line :) gives me a distraction of humor ... but the seriousness of your poem as a whole overwhelms it ... spot on about the searching we are doing on line these days .. especially the young .. so hooked on likes and ones own opinion ... thats all i got for ya! my best shot is in the cupboard in a bottle marked "Devils Cut" :))) must be time for a taste of it today ;)
E.

[KWP]

oh E -thanks for the heads up on the 'Passing wind' - must've been the beans :) thanks also for the reminder about the breath - the pranha - the life force - good visual that one.

Lovely,as always to see you here, you know I just started my very first ever poetry course. It's free and online and I must say I am learning a lot (this one is not a product of it).

How's the shoulder?

[Einstein Noodle]

arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! (the shoulder) :{ but thank you so much for asking ... started therapy and so far each one show improvement ... (thank the Lord for the drugs) today is followup with the doc ... will get stitches out and sent on my merry way :)) i need to get involved in a course as well ...i think i have hit my wall and feel empty .... hugs to ya!

[cycy]

wow,what an intriguing piece, well written dear couldnt have said it better..but indeed we are all fools in a sense, chasing after success as if it were something tangible, true success lies within and im sure over the years we all have just completely lost the tru meaning of fufillment. loved this one. beautifully done :)

[A. Amos]

Awesome...as always reading your words are simply one of the most entertaining pleasure!

[KWP]

hello you :) nice to see you - as always XX