Simple living Archives - Ann Freeman Price https://annfreemanprice.com/tag/simple-living/ Poet, Author, Composer.... Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:08:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://annfreemanprice.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-Header-1-2-32x32.jpg Simple living Archives - Ann Freeman Price https://annfreemanprice.com/tag/simple-living/ 32 32 Simple Living—-Take Two https://annfreemanprice.com/daily-writing/simple-living-take-two/ https://annfreemanprice.com/daily-writing/simple-living-take-two/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:08:56 +0000 http://annfreemanprice.com/?p=1421 Simple Living—Take Two I shared with you the other day a paradelle I wrote on simple living. It was fun to write and I wanted to try writing one. But in terms of a form to use for the topic of simple living, it...

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I shared with you the other day a paradelle I wrote on simple living. It was fun to write and I wanted to try writing one. But in terms of a form to use for the topic of simple living, it was totally mismatched. And so I used the simple form of a shadorma, and it fit the subject much better.
The Simple Life
(Shadormas)

I ache to
live the simple life
keep it plain
keep it spare
find the balance point in all
and feel the magic

I want the
clearness in schedule,
surroundings,
no pressure
in how I live my moments
but much escapes me

since behold
clutter reappears
scheduling
simple life
get complicated again
where is the answer

I start with
small bits and pieces,
times throughout
my day when
I recognize that simple
has appeared – I smile

work for more
not content with small
inch along
bit by bit
for simple life extended
to more of my time

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I’ve never written a paradelle before. It’s a poetry form concocted by Billy Collins, almost as a joke and then people started writing them. See if you can figure out the ingredients of the form. It was fun to write.
Simple (A Paradelle)

commit to do this simple living
commit to do this simple living
clear the clutter and discard the extra
clear the clutter and discard the extra
clear the living and do this simple
commit to discard the extra clutter

watch your purchases – buy only essential
watch your purchases – buy only essential
stop the frenzy of schedule – paint your center calm
stop the frenzy of schedule – paint your center calm
stop essential schedule – watch the frenzy
buy only your calm center – paint your purchases

eat basic healthy food and enjoy dance
eat basic healthy food and enjoy dance
breathe – feel the wind on your face as you walk
breathe – feel the wind on your face as you walk
feel the dance – breathe and walk as you eat
enjoy healthy food – basic wind on your face

stop the clutter of purchases – buy the discard
watch your schedule frenzy – eat extra essential food only
enjoy and feel the healthy you – do your face clear
walk on the wind – paint your basic center
commit to breathe as calm
and dance the simple living

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I think it’s strange that I pare down my possessions over and over again and then in not too long a time I have to repeat the process, because I accumulate. I’m down to three rooms that are an addition to a house and so there is a limit to what will fit. However, there is a barn with endless room for storage, and it is too easy to think of something as a keepsake and put it in the barn in a plastic bin so the mice don’t find it. I was thinking this week that perhaps this summer or fall I need to go through those plastic bins and see if everything there is truly a keepsake.

—

God of plenty—

Help me keep “things” in proportion

to what is important in my “life,”

Guide me in shaving down the overage

that surrounds me.

—

Give me world perspective to see and feel

realities of others in far places.

And when the wanting nibbles at my self,

nudge me into waiting just a while

before acting on the want.

—

Inspire me to give and feel the joy

that comes from giving itself

and prompts even more giving.

—

So much to ask –

but then I have much,

and in the having

I need your help in whittling.

Amen.

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