An empty book.

Need to enjoy life. A good life is many friends and a lot of laughter.

                                 An empty book.

An empty book is a lonely story.
The great writer's lived their life with gusto and no fear.
You can read in their stories a life filled with sadness and happiness.

Hemingway went to war as a Soldier and a reporter. Learn of death and fear.
Kosinski roamed Europe as a youth learning the truth about the nature of man.
Neruda wrote about love with experience of knowing the paradise of the kiss and tender touch.
Gibran wrote with love and kindness. Trying to teach the world a better way.

We must travel blindly into life and chance with no fear.
Open new doors of friendship. Have long conversation about everything.
Need to dance on the edges of pleasures and take what we can from the gift of love.

Don't waste words on people who do not want to hear them.
Learn from regret and move on to better places.
Forgive the people who hurt you and try to seek forgiveness from mistakes made.

Great writer's must live and test life.
Need to swim in the great oceans.
Stand with the clouds on top of the splendor of the powerful mountains.

Walk on sandy beaches.
Hold sweet lovers tightly till morning light.
Don't surrender to fear.

Good to laugh and cried often.
We create our future and need to  ensure we balance our life.
Work and money is part of life. Can't take worldly things with us.
Love and friendship is what will matter when death is upon us.

A complete book is filled with pleasure, pain and story of family, laughter and
great journey. Today is  a new day. Enjoy life. Be kind and make a new friend.

                               Coyote

Author's Note

Life is our chose. Need to make the correct one's.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

just keep writing coyote..people will read...

if you write it, they will come.

jerzy kosinski....read almost all of his novels...loved them...and hemmingway too..ones who said it in fewer words but with great impact.

i really like this poem immensely...and relate to it for obvious reasons..(having been a lit major and now an English teacher) you struck the nerve.

jacob

[Kho-San]

It's strange, I only learned who Neruda was last Saturday, and now I'm seeing his name all over the place!
I like the words of wisdom here, the truth we all know but need to see before we fully understand it, it confirms what we already know (somewhere) in a beautiful and poetic way. I especially like, "Work and money is part of life. Can't take worldly things with us." that is indeed true, we can be the richest of the rich, the greatest of the great, neither our riches nor our greatness will accompany us into the great beyond, whether that be an afterlife or an eternity of nonexistence. Great write.

[Wolf's Dark Song]

Great poem and true wisdom. I couldn't agree more with you. I really enjoyed
your poem.

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Fear is a concept to keep the dreamers down... life is too short, we must love with all our might, laugh lioke it is going out of style and enjoy the here and now before we are good and gone.

[Myra]

What a profound theme you have created here. I also enjoyed the references you made to writers worth mentioning.

[Enid Blake]

So many choices, sometimes the wrong choices can teach us valuable lessons about ourselves/others/life. We must live our lives, and that means much more than just existing.
How inspiring this poem is - see it's really got me thinking...

[Ed Hart]

a good introduction to any literature class

[Becky C Strukamp]

Your poems are ever so inspiring, Each time I read one I want to make sure I practice personally the art of good friendship and living. Thank you for your wonderful poems and sharing them.