Like the Sun - #1

The sun!

Radiating warmth to everyone,
sustaining life on earth,
needing no credit,
exerting no extra credit.


You can be like that:

Doing work that comes easily and naturally to you,
improving the lives of those around you,
changing situations for the better with your presence.



- Jim DuBois

[This is an excerpt from my book, Like The Sun, from the section about relating to people. Get the whole book]

Sometimes (again)

Sometimes,
the food you pick out
is exactly as delicious
as you had hoped.


-Jim DuBois
July 18, 2010

Everlasting

Old guy, reading the paper
at Stop & Shop,
"I'm one of those
everlasting survivors."

-Jim DuBois

Enough

Far enough
Wide enough
Long enough

enough

Expansive feeling of life
at the railroad bridge
over the Connecticut river


-Jim DuBois
April 14, 2010

My Heart Has Always Been My Own

My heart has always been my own
with its own ways
and words
loving when it does
who it does
however it does

You might notice it,
you might not
- that is your business



-Jim DuBois
April 14, 2010

A Neuron Firing

A neuron firing,
An idea forming,
A muscle moving.

A letter!
A word!
A sentence, and a poem!

What next?

A person,
        A planet,
                A galaxy!

The forces of Gravity!
The speed of Light!



-Jim DuBois
c1998?

no time to wait

There is no time to wait, no new day coming with the promise of liberation.
There is no time to wait for the right words,
no time to wait for the world to be ready.

There is no time to wait for audiences or art
No time to wait for fear to go away
No time to consider whether your actions will be right or wrong

    no time for things to be finished
    no time to wait for someone else to approve or say I love you
No time to rehearse for tommorrow

no time but imperfect now



-Jim DuBois
c1994 (originally written on the inside of old raisin boxes)