“What will your verse be?"

The discussion we are having at dversepoets.com this week has to do with the new commercial for ipad using the following quote from the movie Dead Poets' Society  with Robin Williams.   “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering — these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love — these are what we stay alive for....
Brian is asking us "What will be your verse"?  And Grace is leading the way today at OPEN LINK NIGHT..

Hearts leap, beat, ache on their own

we can't control everything,

no time to take ALL the roads less traveled

Hence we compromise, accommodate, 
adjust, get our bearings

Some say their life is a book or symphony,
the world's a stage with applause;

Maybe you've followed your bliss or star,
or a sophisticated orderly plan
live for a good cause
My verse, or theme if you will, 
leans toward the underdog
It involves lists and re-writes
a little of that, a little of this -

and is served Al La Carte,

 Life boomerangs, when least expected,

collides with one's Achilles heel

familiar voices say "you are not alone"
in spite of it, live with zeal

Mystics say all possibilities exist;

 simply doing and being, 
 benefits the whole of consciousness,

further transmigration of the soul
Do we evolve toward perfection?
Limitations reign and bad things happen

My question is:
Is there nothing but God

through phenomena of the brain?

People say life is a journey, 
an adventure, some say a joke
but it is much more

 for  the Milky Way accelerates 

do not take this ride for granted 
 If we take it one step further 
we are grounded in a transcendent world,
Our verses will then have courage, 
for life's not easy to live
Overcome barriers with non violence,

A la Gandhi, Jesus, MLK 

mending divides without ID (ego)

means dualism disappears,

like fog beyond the sand

where unity is found,

Once I wanted to try everything,

be the best at one 

... like Albert Schweitzer
or the Sweetheart of Sigma Chi;

to dance like Shirley MacLaine in 
The Pajama Game
but  I have wonder in love, 
art and poetry,
I live a worthwhile life -

For I am alive, a part of things,

able for the most part to choose,
     As long as I can breathe salty air, 
smell pungent cardamom,

pick up a pen or brush, read or listen

 I am content because 
of the universal nature of things

 Most important is what is inside and
 the one thing I've wanted most in my life

 was to never, ever lose heart 
What I hope for is grace -
so I can live my verse

a la carte