Past

The Past In a dream, I found this tale - Memories are water in a pail We pick the pail each time we move - Water spills (yet we repeat): pain, joy, love

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Anil Deo

Date: 11/7/2021 9:45:00 AM

Pain, Joy, Love ... Yes Linda Darnall, you sent me back into meditation. You are a most "generous" & welcome reader-commentator after my hiatus. Shalom, shalom and even giving comes with that Trinity: pain, joy. Love.

Linda Darnall

Date: 11/6/2021 10:52:00 AM

So insightful with those 3 spare words at the end-!

Michelle Faulkner

Date: 10/15/2021 11:24:00 PM

Wow, how poignant and eloquent, just love the imagery of memories as water, a fave!

Anil Deo
Date: 10/16/2021 12:08:00 AM

Thanks a million, Michelle/$. If u asked what is the shape of the pail, I might have ventured skull-shape. Yes, water ... flows, ripples, explodes/waterfalls/geysers, calms, waves, rains/reigns, nourishes, penetrates, cracks, builds, adds, subtracts (what the jellybeans, I may as well add: water multiplies and divides (people, places/land, things). See, your comment got me thinking yet more. THANX, Paz!

Maureen Mcgreavy

Date: 10/15/2021 10:08:00 AM

A most splendid piece of poetry dear Anil! xomo

Anil Deo
Date: 10/15/2021 9:33:00 PM

I thank you Maureen, and feel the swelling in heart (and head, LORD!) shalom, shalom/Paz!

Mystic Rose Rose

Date: 10/13/2021 10:01:00 AM

Such a genius poem you have written Anil, Indeed we need to spill a little water out once in a while, or else we will drown in resentment. I am glad stopped by to read your wise words today dear Anil. Shalom !

Anil Deo
Date: 10/13/2021 1:03:00 PM

Now U see my head swell. Rose, Rose ... I just read the Lamba Lamba "Whitey Whitey not blue" -- Like Tiger, Tiger by Wm Blake? Thanks for recreating childhood rhythms. Shalom shalom/ Peace/ Paz

Anil Deo

Date: 10/13/2021 7:51:00 AM

Thank you, Thank U, Thank YOU Lisa. shalom, shalom In Jesus, Savior - Redeemer - King. I say it, because I need Him 24/ 7. Anil

Lisa Ricci

Date: 10/13/2021 4:28:00 AM

Hello Anil - This is most interesting with thought. Yes yesterday is the past and yes in dreams we see and hear it so with familiarity we somehow do repeat the video of yesterday be it good bad or indifferent. With hope however may the pail never be empty. Have a blessed day always and yes Shalom Shalom and Shalom once again.