Thursday, January 24, 2013

Small Stone: January 24, 2013



A question for the prickly pear.
What protects?

Little impedimenta,
limiting life, achieving
neither security,
nor freedom
from petty fear.

It is a time 
to remove
the spines,
one by one.


2 comments:

  1. Straight to the heart, that one.

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  2. It's all useless when some other form of life such as a havelina comes along, adapts, and figures out how to exploit a weakness so it can feast on the prickly pear fruit. Might as well just surrender and remove the spines. I like your observation and analogy with human life.

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