Ask not how deep the selflessness of Love
Needs be, to service human brokenness,
When we perceive clear images thereof
Apparent in young children dead, no less;
Pre-occupation with one’s personal need
Can blind one to the faces of despair,
Reclining in the warm embrace of greed,
Unable or unwilling aught to share;
How strange the native instinct to survive
Persists with not an inkling to relent,
Intent on keeping hapless souls alive,
Until the dregs of energy are spent.
For some would end their lives under a stack,
While others cease to be because of lack!
©Meanderings 2016
Autumn Ambles 
Might I have your permission to reblog this??
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Please DO! My privilege…..Thanks. 🙂
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Thanks, I will send it out in a little while. I’m rather busy for a few weeks and may not be able to post much, if anything, before the end of June.
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I love this…it should be posted on everyone’s wall so they read it when looking at themselves in the mirror! I would also like to re-blog this poem, E!… I realize the re-blog button is tacit consent, but I like to see the re-blog coming, so thanks in advance. 🙂 Good writing…
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Please Do, P! Pleased you like it…Yes, I feel strongly about this subject….. Thanks, Luv! Hugs! ❤
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as do I, as you know!
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Yes, I know…. 😉 Hugs! ❤
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gee, and I try to be so subtle….once in the TA room one of the young guys complained that he always knew what I would say…”I said will they are bombing the heck out of Baghdad…” for gosh sake. Or when they blew up the Branch Davidians in a blaze. I fail to cheer that kind of goings-on. grumble…
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have been outside working in my tree garden…the mower got the better of me mowing those paths through the woods…oh oh Scott had to take over, he was sitting on his riding mower watching me after I told him I’d do it myself.
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Beautiful. . .both the thought and the saying of the words. Be blessed today and always.
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Thanks Shirley……Glad you like it…. Hugs! ❤
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Reblogged this on Skramblin-Geezer and commented:
Another instance of Bushka’s wonderful gift.
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Reblogged this on SOMETIMES and commented:
Here is a lovely Sonnet from my friend Bushka over at Autumn Ambles https://autumnambles.wordpress.com/2016/05/22/sunday-sonnet-2/#comment-4084 (thanks for the re-blog, E.!)
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A great contribution Elliot.
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Thanks Peter. 🙂
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What a great write. This one is my favorite of yours. I don’t know how to tell you how much I love this.
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Such a heartbreaking piece Bushka. You got me teary eyed.. May we always strive to do the right thing.
Blessings, hugs and love!
Dajena ❤
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