Avvaiyar Says Never

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Be virtuous.

Never boast.

Never gossip.

Never stop aiding.

Share what you eat.

Begging is shameful.

Never degrade learning.

Never give up enthusiasm.

Do intend to do right things.

Never stop learning or reading.

Never compromise in food grains.

Help others based on your capacities.

Take no decisions during times of anger.

Each virtue is as powerful as the energies

of seven oceans compressed into one atom.

And, farthest beyond thought, never say never.

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Cento created by Susan Powers Bourne

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avvaiyar

1951: deconstruction

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1951:  deconstruction

the deep freezes: old spaces spark
refilling fearless empty river beds

duty calls, stops, restarts moments
subjective, we see him/her in town

forests die, flirting with infiltration
often in reply, chasms plunge open

only a few crumbs of difference fall
lost logs lying on the forests’ floors

we each lived forever before at times
after all has been said or done: align

matriarchal artists meander: encircle
mid-summers’ white wings of desire

adieu once-upon-a-time — authentic
sunlight fades and sets the hills aglow

a few still yearn to fly across the night
skies at the end of the Age of Aquarius

bodies remember radiant forgiveness
as we finally make it home — unbound

silence lists — interprets liminal views:
no past probabilities — only now exists

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Poet: Susan Powers Bourne
Sources: Impromptu | Simone Muench
Process: Pick and mix cento