Picture this:
A coffee shop playing soft cool jazz. A whiff if cigarette fills the air. Men in black turtlenecks. Bohemian artists holding their spiral notebooks. They’re all waiting. Waiting to take their turn at the mike.
One by one they go up, effusing snappy poetic rhymes…some about love…some raging against the current political and social reality…and some just chilling out.
Amidst this scene, a man walks wearing a 3-piece suit, and looks like he is riding high on the corporate ladder. People don’t know him there. But in the corporate world, he is a high-riding VP of an insurance corporation. And before that, he was a big shot lawyer. And that’s EXACTLY what he looks like: a corporate executive.
The people are snickering, especially when he tells them his poem is entitled, “the Snow Man”. Now they’re humming Frosty the Snow Man with an undercurrent of hostility.
He steps up to the mike, and says…
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In our quest for a more fulfilling existence, we sometimes start to lose hope. At times, we feel down, hopeless, and discontented. And in times like these, we should look for hope and inspiration wherever we can find it.
So, for the first time on this blog, I am featuring someone else’s writing. It is my honor this week to bring you two inspirational poems from poet and musician Prince Rahman’s latest collection of poetry, Paths of Pondering (re-printed with his permission). I hope they give you a lift where you had none before.
The Gift
By Prince Rahman
Learn
Grow
Breathe deep the gathering fire
You are transformed
More your own true voice
Than you have ever known
Doubts
Like sacrificial lambs
Burst into light
Contradicting their inherent cry to hide
Learn
Grow
You are a gift
Unto the world
A gift much needed
Have you…?
By Prince Rahman
Have you smiled today?
Have you tickled yourself
And grinned a moment away?
Have you gazed at the sky
And sighed
Because its grandeur
Takes your breath away?
Have you thanked yourself
For choosing to live with intention?
Have you thanked yourself
For all the wonderfulness in you?
More in you than there are enough days to mention
Let us thank you
For being who you are
For being how you be
We thank you
So…
Have you smiled today?
Have you?
About the Author
Prince Rahman is a poet, musician, and leadership coach whose mission is to facilitate your ability to become the change you wish to see in your life, and therefore in the world. For more information on how to purchase Paths of Pondering, and its accompanying CD, you can go his site here.
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Posted: July 20th, 2007
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