Serenity Meditations, Volume III by Mitchell Isaac Friedman (i can read books .txt) 📖

Hope of a New Day

Green buds springing forth 

seen along the Southern State Highway 

green buds spring forth 

mean hope is not far way 

lean branches pushing green buds forth 

bring on new hope of a better day

This, Too, Shall Pass

These are dark and scary times for mankind. 

Conflicting reports intensify stress, 

deep despair afflicts and consumes the mind. 

  

Remember, mankind has endured--survived 

many dark, evil times before and thrived. 

  

How many times has the existence of mankind 

been threatened? How often was man distressed? 

How often was there no hope for him to find? 

  

And yet, humanity endured—survived 

myriad dark, evil times still to thrive. 

  

When fear and uncertainty fill the mind— 

when calamity and darkness oppress— 

when we seem to face the end of mankind, 

  

remember mankind has endured—survived 

myriad dark and evil times and thrived. 

  

Know, better times are approaching behind 

these times of darkness, evil, and stress, 

to ease and comfort our troubled minds. 

  

Know, even this crisis we will survive 

and, all said and done, we will again thrive. 

  

There is one glimmering hope we can find 

to give peace of mind, to ease our distress— 

a simple thought we must keep in our minds. 

  

This is that ray of hope for us to find-- 

a simple golden truth: “THIS, TOO, SHALL PASS.” 

When darkness oppresses, shove it behind, 

hold to this shining thought for peace of mind.  

Wind-Tossed Tree

My

mind is a

wind-tossed tree, standing firmly,

undisturbed by turbulent

gusts of storm blasts,

serenely

calm

Strong

wind-blown tree,

standing calm against

turbulent, tempestuous

violence of storm driven

gusts, swirling around

unbending

tree.

Swirling Wind

Mind caught in tempestuous, swirling wind,

thoughts forming wild, turbulent funnel cloud,

feelings, images whipping ‘round my head.

A calming breath brings sweet serenity,

disperses, thins thought’s cloud like density.

Each breath a gentle breeze that clears my head,

dissipating all troubling thoughts like clouds

calming the tempestuous, swirling wind.

 

Present in This Moment

Calm

feelings, thoughts 

drift by; mindfulness 

present in this moment, now. 

Calm

 

Give Not Into Temptation

 Do!

No one’s here

who can bear witness—

no one to see, so why not

do?

Stop!

There’s One sees all that’s hidden

deep within the soul,

so, resist

Stop!

Calm

 

CALM

quiet 

tranquil peace

steady stream of thoughts 

ungrasped drift slowly by 

sweet serenity remains 

like a placid brook mind is calm 

Solace and Compassion

 Solace:

comfort offered

in a time of

sorrow.

 

Compassion:

empathy—

kindness offered

to comfort.

Karmic Boomerang

Every thought, word, and action, 

like a karmic boomerang, 

comes flying back to us 

 

The energy we put forth 

is returned to us-- 

every thought, word, and action. 

 

Negativity returns negativity, 

positivity returns positivity, 

like a karmic boomerang. 

 

All we think, say, or do 

flies out into the world, and 

comes flying back to us. 

 

Night Sky Serenity

Dark velvet night sky

sparkling with bright starlight

brings serenity 

I Wish. . . .

I wish I was the man then that I am now,

I wish I had written then what I write now,

I wish I knew then what I know now.

 

Hmmm,

but then. . . .

 

What I know now was learned from what I knew then,

what I write now comes from what I couldn’t write then,

the man I am now is the offspring of the man I was then.

 

I wish. . . .

 

Hmmm,

but no!

 

Looking back

over the path my life traversed,

and reflecting on where I have come,

I am content.

 

Driftwood Afloat

As driftwood afloat

on the current of a stream

thoughts drift by then fade.