tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86625214276765815152024-02-08T05:03:31.231-08:00Cleveland ThomasMatt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-74759138105084367832009-09-29T04:58:00.000-07:002009-09-29T04:58:00.707-07:00Day New<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Bringing new<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Sun through the fog<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Pink hue<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Is the clarity of destiny for few<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Who have chosen?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Will you?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Careful with your giving<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Leading the fresh and the chosen<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Who have reached for today<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Day nearest when I <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Lay<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Day new now<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">I will be there today<o:p></o:p></span></p>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-59960625542605717892009-09-28T04:53:00.000-07:002009-09-28T04:57:21.942-07:00Failing in Comfort<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;">Too ready to meet the fight</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Too assured and well fed<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Of my needs I have one to meet<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">To release my greed and fear<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Pity that still in comfort I tread<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">I sit<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Lamenting my loss<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Waiting for the tension to spread<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">And the door once more opened<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">The voices again speak inside my head<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Light given <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Hope to the dread</span></p>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-53417757677846597802009-09-20T04:45:00.000-07:002009-09-20T04:45:00.525-07:00One page memorandum to self<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-size:11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>live with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">integrity</b>; what you nurture grows; be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">courage</b>ous; actions before plans; remember and keep promises; associate with people you admire and can learn from; it is who knows you and what they think of you that counts; true change can only happen in the now; when results are good look through the window, when results are poorly look in the mirror; inability to see yourself as you truly are makes seeing other things as they truly are impossible; do it, fix it, try it; think of what your work will make out of you rather than what it will give you; lead with your ears; identify what you are passionate about and aim to do more of it; dream big; if nobody will pay you to do what you love, you have a hobby not a career; character and values trump personality and looks; you will never achieve more than you think you can; you do not have the big picture beyond your own experience; life has a simple formula: challenge and response; nothing good happens by accident; give your students the exam ahead of time; what you neglect declines; when you see a problem you have a moment of truth: you have a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">choice</b> how to respond; to lead you must <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">believe</b> a vision that is beyond your proven ability to realize; the path toward your vision becomes clearer with each step; accept everything that happens and your choice of response; spontaneity is not random, it takes hours of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">practice</b>; more information makes decisions harder not easier; make sure you generate a reasonable number of mistakes; stick to what you can be best at; trust your gut; truth lurks in the metaphor; your values and purpose are defined by your <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">actions</b>; complexity causes lethargy and inertia; let freedom and responsibility coexist; seek simple crystalline concepts; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">results</b> first – planning second; maintain a stop doing list; experiment; you control your choice of action, universal laws and principles control the consequences; direction is more important than speed; the way you see, your values, leads to what you do and what you do leads to the results you are getting; from the state of your heart proceeds the conditions of your life; thoughts blossom into deeds; disobedience to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">conscience</b> make conscience blind; you reap what you sow; look after the goose and the golden eggs will follow; begin with the end in mind; between stimulus and response is our ability to choose; do what you say; satisfied needs do not motivate; diagnose before you prescribe; accurate paradigms explain, then guide; balance courage with consideration; good teams accommodate and capitalize on differences; model character and competence; the range of what you think and do is limited by what you fail to notice; put the problem before the answer; separate people from the problem; speak for a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">purpose</b>; look through the eyes of different experts; insist on using objective criteria; all sunshine makes the desert; don’t defend your ideas, invite criticism and advice; there is plenty for everyone; trust, but verify; value differences; be proactive; stand for something; be open; know what’s expected; use right materials and equipment; do what you do best; recognize contributions; create a caring environment; human see, human do; opinions count; connect with purpose; find the right fit; focus on strengths; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">respect</b> the individual; define the right outcomes; select for talent; focus on the future; keep track of own performance and learnings; value world class performance; study the best; a compass in every pocket is better than a chicken in every pot; transparency; disclosure; accountability; you build strong teams by treating people differently; to influence others allow yourself to be influenced; insist on realism; know yourself; informality is critical to candor; how you meet your commitments is at least as important as whether you meet them; strategy must be constructed by those who must execute it; divided responsibility means that nobody is responsible; link your long term <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">intent</b> to your next immediate action; you accomplish what you measure, therefore measure the right things; acknowledge the truth about the results that have been created, accept ownership of the choices that drove the results, declare a path forward; at the end of the day, we either have reasons or results, reasons don’t count; you can have anything you want, you just can’t have everything; if you have 60 minutes to make a point take 40 minutes to plan it and 20 minutes saying it; you are perfectly aligned to get the results you’ve been getting; with people slow is fast and fast is slow; seek first to understand, then to be understood; to know and not to use is not yet to know; you don’t keep digging up a plant to see how its growing; whoever owns the gold makes the rules; the longer you project that you have a consistent set of standards from which you’ll never deviate, the more people will learn to trust you; what you are speaks far more loudly than anything you say or do; things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least; manage from the left brain, lead from the right; rather than things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">relationships</b> and accomplishing results; organize around priorities; 80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities; focus on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">interests</b> not positions; invent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">options</b> for mutual gain; insist on objective criteria; a problem well stated is a problem half solved; there is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come; you can’t see past a choice you don’t understand; know why you want something; never ask the barber if you need a haircut; when you pick up one end of the stick you pick up the other; victimism gives your future away; creativity thinks up new things,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> innovation</b> does new things; <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>a place for everything and everything in its place; we all leave a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">legacy</b> be intentional about yours; remember yourself – you are alive; be aware of your environment, it takes part in forming your thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-62736348590246282362009-09-19T04:39:00.000-07:002009-09-19T04:39:00.487-07:00Drive<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Do you behave like what you want is important to you?</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">What could you do if your life depended on it? </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">What have you done about it today?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Are you listening to your conscience?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">What does it say?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">(17.09.09)</span></span></div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-23044573994159561422009-09-18T04:25:00.000-07:002009-09-18T04:25:00.253-07:00Fleeting momentI know what I did with those<div>hopes.</div><div><br /></div><div>Dreams will be decided</div><div>from now on.</div><div><br /></div><div>What I did can be done</div><div>no longer.</div><div><br /></div><div>My future follows every action</div><div>started and begun.</div><div><br /></div><div>(1997 - 2009)</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-61717622262363459292009-09-17T04:15:00.000-07:002009-09-17T04:21:25.141-07:00Age of the AcrynomHiding<div>Carefully<div>Constructed</div><div>Names</div><div>For </div><div>Brevity...</div><div>Words</div><div>Become</div><div>Brandings</div><div><br /></div><div>(27.08.97 and reconstructed in 17.09.09)</div></div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-6424897220140135482009-09-16T04:38:00.000-07:002009-09-16T04:38:00.380-07:00"Enjoy the upside"A marketing cliche for fools<div>they know that</div><div>no-one is</div><div>ever satisfied</div><div>"You should be getting more"</div><div>Which gets you</div><div>Have they got you?</div><div><br /></div><div>(from 22.11.1997)</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-46114207104673193802009-09-15T04:34:00.000-07:002009-09-15T04:34:00.182-07:00Your ApparitionHoly itself beats its<div>chest in awe of</div><div>the insightful</div><div>awesome</div><div>beauty</div><div>of your original</div><div>action</div><div><br /></div><div>(19.11.1997)</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-20282037712693924522009-09-14T04:27:00.000-07:002009-09-14T04:27:00.433-07:00Rabblefor babble the<div>girl and her shoe</div><div>I only dabble when</div><div>something is new</div><div>here is your ladder</div><div>you know what to do</div><div>all mad as the hatter</div><div>we believe this is true</div><div><br /></div><div>(05.10.1997)</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-8766814419084699142009-09-12T04:21:00.000-07:002009-09-12T04:21:00.511-07:00Tenderto the edge<div>of repair</div><div>Ripened by the</div><div>knowledge of recent</div><div>despair,</div><div>Walking with</div><div>bare feet around the town</div><div>fair the clowns they</div><div>swallow all things,</div><div>they don't seem</div><div>to care</div><div><br /></div><div>(14.09.1997)</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-29789321814501781712009-09-11T04:18:00.000-07:002009-09-11T04:18:00.306-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">Dilly</div><div style="text-align: center;">for</div><div style="text-align: center;">Dally</div><div style="text-align: center;">Mixing for Nelly</div><div style="text-align: center;">Life and</div><div style="text-align: center;">These</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lollies</div><div style="text-align: center;">in</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bags</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">(02.09.1997)</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-23211250541557692502009-09-10T04:09:00.000-07:002009-09-10T04:09:00.193-07:00PaparazziCamera<div>In your face</div><div>Dying</div><div>Tales</div><div>Flash the royal lady</div><div>Still unable to let her go</div><div>Even as life slipped from her</div><div>You aimed to hold her image</div><div>For more gain</div><div>A flash, a flash, a flash</div><div>You blow a flickered flame</div><div><br /></div><div>(Written 02.09.1997 in response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales 31.08.1997)</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-43825061011562713942009-09-09T04:06:00.000-07:002009-09-09T04:06:00.309-07:00And ThenNow<div>I notice</div><div>I breath</div><div>I am thinking</div><div>Uncommon to realise</div><div>The odds of not being</div><div>Alive</div><div><br /></div><div>(30.07.1997)</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-19747174235069487002009-09-08T04:00:00.000-07:002009-09-08T04:05:43.175-07:00Council Worker's Revenge<div style="text-align: center;">That person</div><div style="text-align: center;">you</div><div style="text-align: center;">saw</div><div style="text-align: center;">leaning on a shovel</div><div style="text-align: center;">may</div><div style="text-align: center;">well</div><div style="text-align: center;">one day be seated</div><div style="text-align: center;">in the tractor used</div><div style="text-align: center;">to </div><div style="text-align: center;"> fill</div><div style="text-align: center;"> in</div><div style="text-align: center;"> your</div><div style="text-align: center;"> grave</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">(30.07.1997)</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-53390198032015437142009-08-25T04:48:00.001-07:002009-08-25T04:51:21.189-07:00Shiverme walking up the parade<div>flinch for tomorrow</div><div>for every next day</div><div>move without watching</div><div>he stares at the sun</div><div>rest may just follow</div><div>when all this is done</div><div><br /></div><div><i>(14.09.97 While travelling in a bus home from work in Vancouver, Canada I passed a naked man with long hair and a full beard walking down the street with a pained expression on his face. I thought of him and wrote this poem)</i></div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-16452499439613251262009-08-20T07:00:00.000-07:002009-08-20T07:00:01.113-07:00The unguided hand<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Walking with you<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">This evening<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Morning<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">And still<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Everyone is different<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">But<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">We are all afraid<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Of being blamed<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Most, all the time<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Knowing we all love to take our parts<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">From the crowd<o:p></o:p></span></p>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-26436239642280934412009-08-20T04:39:00.000-07:002009-08-20T04:44:39.079-07:00A private bureaucracySold off in separate lots<div>Chipped away from a big ole block</div><div>Now running separately in function</div><div>They found one piece depended on the other</div><div>So we're trying to glue it all back again</div><div><br /></div><div><i>(Written 14.10.96 while working for Signaling Control UK that was one of several privatised companies spun out from the British Railways)</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><i> </i></span></div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-53372904671205245712009-08-20T04:36:00.000-07:002009-08-20T04:38:13.515-07:00Brains left the buildingAfter reaching a critical mass<div>The intelligence was replaced by rhetoric</div><div>And somewhere along the line, equilibrium</div><div>Maintaining the status quo became sound</div><div>It was decided, there's nothing else to learn</div><div><br /></div><div><i>(Written 14.10.96 while backpacking in York, England)</i></div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-52671570978733079002009-08-19T03:28:00.000-07:002009-08-19T03:31:23.572-07:00Small room<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%">Small door</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Old lamp<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Large shade<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;"><o:p>Room, real I think and clean</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Past lingers<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Cool and warm<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">Another door leads in to the mirror<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">And our reflections before bed<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">It rains outside<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Georgia;">And there is the smell of breakfast<o:p></o:p></span></p>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-17712746337683984842009-08-19T03:13:00.001-07:002009-08-19T03:27:01.439-07:00Tenderness<div style="text-align: center;">Do you own your thoughts if required?</div><div style="text-align: center;">Can you purchase my suggestions?</div><div style="text-align: center;">I already sold that one you asked me about</div><div style="text-align: center;">Just the other day</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Under foot, in bag</div><div style="text-align: center;">I hold the thoughts still tenderly,</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now they are in my hand</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-83586914734950806392009-08-18T05:32:00.000-07:002009-08-19T03:08:34.858-07:00In this noisy world<div style="text-align: center;">All</div><div style="text-align: center;">I</div><div style="text-align: center;">Want</div><div style="text-align: center;">To</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hear</div><div style="text-align: center;">Is</div><div style="text-align: center;">The </div><div style="text-align: center;">Sound</div><div style="text-align: center;">Of</div><div style="text-align: center;">My</div><div style="text-align: center;">Voice</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">(15.05.1997)</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-59342433980931289512009-08-18T05:14:00.000-07:002009-08-18T05:24:17.111-07:00You should not see me1. You should not even try<div>2. It will change our relationship</div><div>3. You and I</div><div>4. Meaning should not reside from where</div><div>5. The words have been spoken</div><div>6. But simply as words that are there</div><div>7. As they are and remain</div><div>8. Long after the breath that wrote them</div><div>9. Here</div><div>10. For those born after</div><div>11. With a meeting</div><div>12. Things always change</div><div>13. Doubts and pretences</div><div>14. Get between you and your friends</div><div><br /></div><div>(first written 05.05.1996 and reworked 18.08.2009)</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-5045709042249170032009-08-15T18:19:00.000-07:002009-08-18T05:11:43.699-07:00Covenant partner1. Healing service, a world outreach<div>2. For a dollar a day</div><div>3. Already seventy million subscribers</div><div>4. To online live streaming</div><div>5. Watch for our new bilingual affiliates</div><div>6. Do you have prayers needing answers?</div><div>7. Send them to us</div><div>8. Your first month's subscription is free</div><div>9. Tune in every Sunday</div><div>10. Place your hands on the monitor</div><div>11. Receive your blessing</div><div>12. Parishioners</div><div>13. You can be stronger</div><div>14. May your demons be gone</div><div><br /></div><div>(first drafted 24.03.1996, revised 16.08.2009)</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-35977690003304427492009-08-15T18:12:00.000-07:002009-08-16T05:03:03.681-07:00The only day1. The decision to make, this time<div>2. Unknown consequences to be</div><div>3. The directions taken</div><div>4. Destinations located</div><div>5. This moment being</div><div>6. The only time a unique</div><div>7. Happening</div><div>8. Done in this way</div><div>9. As natural progression</div><div>10. No logic or explanation</div><div>11. Simply acceptance</div><div>12. No perfection required</div><div>13. Just listening and action</div><div>14. The kind voice spoken</div><div><br /></div><div>(first written 25.03.1996, retranslated 16.08.2009)</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662521427676581515.post-1368883697703432632009-08-09T02:50:00.000-07:002009-08-15T18:12:10.318-07:00Whopping great big1. Fire to keep us warm this night<div>2. Surrounded by a conical canvas</div><div>3. Having time described above</div><div>4. The day brought some sunshine at last</div><div>5. The size of flame increased and still</div><div>6. We enjoy the glow</div><div>7. Even though time for sleeping we are</div><div>8. Aware</div><div>9. The rest will be described above</div><div>10. Three times over the same dimension of fun</div><div>11. Enveloped by the moment</div><div>12. Unshaking the past</div><div>13. Momentarily realising they are truly alive</div><div>14. In this whopping great big smoking pipe</div><div><br /></div><div>(Loose recollections from a night in a Inuit tipi sleeping with an open fire, Easter Day on Salt Spring Island, British Columia, Canadia - 07.04.1996)</div>Matt Rosinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06966835221783842972noreply@blogger.com1