Beryl Dov

"River Mountain Ocean [10w] + [10w] + {Couplet} Rivers delight in their flow;Mountains savor their snow.But oceans are in concurrencetheir contentment comes from recurrence."

"Masochist [10w] A masochist goes to massage parlor seeking a tragic ending."

"A Loaf of Challah Haiku A loaf of challah,a bottle of Rashi wine...For everything else there's Simply Manischewitz."

"Switch Hitter [10w] Aphorisms are penned in my left brain,poetry, my right."

"Flood of Feeling {Couplet} A flood of feeling is a poem,created from daydreaming in the zone.The levees break, emotions snake,from imagination's ocean who sets the stakes."

"What is the Meaning of Life? [10w] {6} To be transformed into all we are capable of becoming."

"Soulmate My Ass [10w] Aspire to marry the person the least wrong for you."

"Remorse among Thieves When a caught thief shows remorse he says to himself,"I knew I should pull off that heist differently."

"Amazon.com Amazon.com is the Church of Consumer Capitalismwhose ethics demands we know the price of everything,the value of absolutely nothing of true moral valueand most importantly ~Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought."

"Leaps of Faith [10w] Like religion, leaps of faith are behind all idealistic movements."

"Contiguous vs. Continuous Identity Identity's only preserved in death;in life it is ever-changing."

"New Year's Resolutions New Year's resolutions shouldn't be about doing new things;it should be about stopping to do the shitty things you're already doing."

"Object of Desire A woman knows she's the object of a unknown man's desirelike a game animal becoming aware it is being looked at."

"Love vs. Mental Illness [10w] Love, like mental illness, comes on graduallyand then suddenly."

"The Freedom Paradox [10w] The act of protecting freedom is a violation of freedom."

"Closets Opening and Closing [10w] + [10w] You can take sweet gay men out of the closet;you can't take the closet out of the master-bedroom suite."

"Love and Blindness [10w] Love may be unilaterally blind,but divorce blinds both parties."

"Argument [10w] Argue for the sake of resolutionnot for arguments sake.."

"Till Death Do You Part [10w] Marriage will indeed change people ~for better or for worse."

"Poets, Shakespeare and Trash A poet must read equal amountsof trash and Shakespeare to learn how to distinguish between the two."