Dust in my Room - Two-liners for Everyday Living (Series 2)

Nobly a life men can choose,
Yet prefer to live long and lose.

Dr Abe V Rotor

Now and then I jot down ideas as they come spontaneously at work, leisure and even in the middle of the night. 

Ideas are fleeting, they just disappear and are difficult to recall.  Fortunately, with a notebook on hand, I was able to capture  and painstakingly transcribe them into two-line verses. 

Here are some I wish to share in this blog and on Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-the-air)

1. Take it from the ant or stork,
Patience is silence at work.

2. A full vessel holds water to the brim,
Unless it bears a crack on the rim.

3. Pleasance to the youth, care to the old;
Where do they belong, the meek and the bold?

4. She is coy who speaks soft, writes light;
Fire starts with smoke before it ignites.

5. Moth, master of camouflage, don’t be dumb;
When you lose your art, you lose your freedom.

6. He finds reason for living
Who sees a new beginning.

7. Every promise you can’t keep
Drags you into a deeper pit.
 
 8. How do you know truth unspoken?
When the heart has spoken.

9. To the humble, a Genie rises from a great soul,
And I, a teacher, yet know not my goal.

10. Make believe growth and prosperity;
A vessel sounds louder when empty.

11. A child too soon behaves like man,
A good man, he means – on none.

12. The difference of being right and reasonable,
One is black or white, the other’s measurable

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Definition (From Jacob M Baude)

Gratitude: Memory of the heart. 

Dreams: the free movies of sleep

Luck: good planning, carefully executed

Kindness: a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.