poetry

"How to Write a PoemCatch the airaround the butterfly."

"APPLY WITHINYou once told meYou wanted to findYourself in the world -And I told you toFirst apply within,To discover the worldwithin you.You once told meYou wanted to saveThe world from all its wars -And I told you toFirst save yourselfFrom the world,And all the warsYou put yourselfThrough.APPLY WITHIN by Suzy Kassem"

"because two bodies, naked and entwined,leap over time, they are invulnerable,nothing can touch them, they return to the source,there is no you, no I, no tomorrow,no yesterday, no names, the truth of twoin a single body, a single soul,oh total being..."

"The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt."

"Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!"

"I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss?Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?"

"The first time I saw her,Everything in my head went quiet."

"I have been to lots of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefulbut I never actually collapsedoh Lana Turner we love you get up"

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these."

"life's not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis"

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."

"She plants love, and she grows roses. The fragrance of romance comes from the blossom that blooms in the heart."

"There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin."

"قلت لكم مراراإن الطوابير التي تمر..في استعراض عيد الفطر والجلاء(فتهتف النساء في النوافذ انبهارا)لا تصنع انتصارا.إن المدافع التي تصطف على الحدود، في الصحارىلا تطلق النيران.. إلا حين تستدير للوراء.إن الرصاصة التي ندفع فيها.. ثمن الكسرة والدواء:لا تقتل الأعداءلكنها تقتلنا.. إذا رفعنا صوتنا جهاراتقتلنا، وتقتل الصغارا !"

"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."

"Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run."

"Though we tremble before uncertain futuresmay we meet illness, death and adversity with strengthmay we dance in the face of our fears."

"Resolve, and thou art free."

"I Still Have Everything You Gave MeIt is dusty on the edges.It is slightly rotten.I guard it without thinking.I focus on it once a yearwhen I shake it out in the wind.I do not ache.I would not trade."

"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."