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Rising Five
"I'm rising five" he said
"Not four" and the little coils of hair
Un-clicked themselves upon his head.
His spectacles, brimful of eyes to stare
At me and the meadow, reflected cones of light
Above his toffee-buckled cheeks. He'd been alive
Fifty-six months or perhaps a week more;

Not four
But rising five.

Around him in the field, the cells of spring
Bubbled and doubled; buds unbuttoned; shoot
And stem shook out the creases from their frills,
And every tree was swilled with green.
It was the season after blossoming,
Before the forming of the fruit:

Not May
But rising June.


And in the sky
The dust dissected the tangential light:
Not day

But rising night;
Not now
But rising soon.

The new buds push the old leaves from the bough.
We drop our youth behind us like a boy
Throwing away his toffee-wrappers. We never see the flower,
But only the fruit in the flower; never the fruit,
But only the rot in the fruit. We look for the marriage bed
In the baby's cradle; we look for the grave in the bed;

Not living

But rising dead.


Norman Nicholson


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This poem delivers a meaningful message and advise. It highlights to us that a majority of us or most of us... always worries about the future and forget what we have now. By thinking bout what is tomorrow and what is next year, we just somehow forget to appreciate what we have now.And those good things that we dun realize we have now may just fade away and when we realized it... we may just regret that we didn't appreciate it and thus we lived in the past again.

Like the last stanza where a flower blooms. We only wished and long for the fruit and we forget the beauty of the flower."We look for the marriage bed
In the baby's cradle; we look for the grave in the bed;" this line again explains that when a couple has a child, whts on their mind may seem to be that thy expect or worry how the future their child may be... and thus they forgot how to appreciate the beauty of their baby. the moment and process when thy grew up.

Thats how our life is. We only worry what happens in the future and how shall we handle it... things often dun turn out as we expected. but its good that we plan and be prepared to face the future. in addition, be brave to meet the challenges. Some of my friends did it. They dun bother much and go with the flow.. and while my worried never come true and now im in KL blogging. A place i never expect to be. To Look back ten years ago im still an idiot worrying my pri six and secondary life.and ten years from now... where would i be? Brunei, malaysia or sumwhere unexpected? A father or still a bachelor? hehe...

There is a longing wish to have a life with that someone.I once see a future but now with too much thinking and worrying it seemed a bit worrying. Logically what i think is that its better to go with the flow and plan a possible route and prepare the impossible. hehe. there is always a take and give in life.I am prepared to go with all sorts of challenges. One thing im not is my fear in driving. Lol, i wish i wud strike lottery the next week. XD

End of todays blog, hoping things will turn out to be well. Sufferings made us mature, challenges made us clever.