ASMA WARSI

 Six Point One

He called me this morning, “how old did you turn?”
“I am sixty-one.”
Computer savvy as he is,
He retorted, “ You’re only 6.1”

Am I Acrobat, or Photoshop? I don’t know
Perhaps Pagemaker 6.1,
So age is only numbers,
Mindset, version, a vision.

Next year, then I’ll be 6.2,
Will I be more user-friendly?
Or more troublesome, snappy, grumpy,
Irritating, annoying, crude?
Or will I be like every version?
Promised as better, improved.

[This was an impromptu poem written by me on my birthday]
Asma Warsi ©

Susan A.J. Davis

1st September through October 27th, 2013

Swims: Poetry, Images & Calligraphy

A exhibition of the original work comprising a Handmade Book by Susan AJ Davis

Reception, Book Release, and Reading of the Poems

2-4 pm Sunday, October 6th

First Unitarian Church of Hamilton

170 Dundurn Street, Hamilton, ON

Everyone is Welcome

   

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MARTY BEERS MESHBERG

Band Wagons

Jumping on the 'band wagon',

in my book,

leaves much to be desired.

Large groups and masses

such as political parties

and social causes

often require that

one must leave one's

own mind and heart

behind.

I view collective thought

clannish

and a humanistic danger.

It is easy to join causes

which ask you to sign up

to dogma's...

releasing you from true

contemplation. 

I am reminded

in the Baha'i Writings,

that one must apprehend

the truth through one's

own investigation

and not through the eyes

of others.

I find myself at odds with

many causes because I refuse

to relinquish this spiritual right.

There are those

who call me brave

and courageous

and those who find reason

to call me a traitor.

I am solitary

in my quest

to remain liberated

from classification

and life's multi-peered

bucket

of pseudo-pious offences.

I am solitary here

to persevere, to giving life

to what has been proven

to be right. To carry forward

the truths that I've found

and to make that

the whole meaning

of my life.

MCM©Feb.2013