Some Max Ehrmann Poems and My Last Song as an Undergrad

[Sunrise in Palm Coast, FL]


The title gives it away quite plainly...

I was checking my inbox, which was looong overdue (sorry about that!), and one of my new gaia friends Niamh recommended two poems by Max Ehrmann, Life and I Go My Way. Here they are, with two more of his poems.


Life

I sat with the stars on the hill of life

And looked at the world below.

I ran with the winds where winds begin

And followed them where they blow.

 

I lay by the sea on the beaten rock

And rode on the farthest wave,

I watched by a child on its night of birth

And followed it to its grave.

 

And love in the still of the star-flecked night,

When earth was all strewn with gold,

Has lifted my heart like the chords of  song

Oft sung in the world of old.

 

And though I have not understood all this,

Made up a laugh and a wail,

I think that the God of the world knows all,

And someday will tell the tale.



I Go My Way

All round is haste, confusion, noise.

For power and wealth men stretch the day

From dawn till dusk.

But quietly I go my way.


For glitter, show, to taunt the crowd,

Desire-tossed in wild dismay,

Men sell their souls.

But quietly I go my way.


The green of all the fields is mine;

The stars, the night, the wind at play,

A peaceful heart, while quietly

I go my way.


A Still Soul

Maybe you have a still soul that

goes murmurless like water

 in the deep of rivers;

 

And perchance you wander

silent amid the din of the world's

grinding barter like one journeying

in strange lands.

 

You, too, with the still soul,

have your mission, for beneath the dashing,

noisy waves must ever run the silent waters

that give the tide its course.


The Human Heart

I journeyed from university to university, and I saw everywhere the past rebuilt before the eyes of young men and  young women - Egypt, Greece, Rome; language, architecture, laws - saw the earth and sky explained, and the habits of the body -

          Everywhere chairs of this and that, largely endowed.

          But nowhere saw I a chair of the human heart.


- Max Ehrmann

(Thanks for the poems.)


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And now, the only song I wrote my last semester of college. I wrote a couple of poems, so perhaps I will post them in the future. I hope you enoy it.



2 22 08 Mystery Surrounds

I find it hard to learn who you are
But our eyes have danced from afar

And maybe I’ll see you again
It’s not a race but I want to win!


I’ve spent too many hours alone
And you’ve spent too long unknown

Unravel the smile you hide
I want you to feel alive!


Who knows what is next?
Life is beyond complex
Mystery is surrounding me!


I will probably be blogging much more in the near future...maybe the next month or so. Until then,

Much love and peace.