soul

"Infinite Promise The carrot of infinite promise always dangles just inches beyond our noses.The trick is to surreptitiously switch that carrot for a zucchini."

"Miss Universe Contest Protest Haiku Fundamentalists protest Miss Universe contest.Go home, beat their wives."

"Life Imprisonment with No Possibility of Parole [10w] "The needle is preferable to three hots and a cot."

"Beauty is the illumination of your soul."

"What you seek is seeking you."

"Becoming [10w] We're a becoming whose final shape is unknown to all."

"Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you."

"Love vs. the Three Headed Dragon In relationships, the corrosive venom of the three-headed dragon areindifference, fault-finding and 'take-each-other-for-grantedness'.Only these cantarnish the shining armor of amour."

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

"Self-Contempt [10w] Self-contempt is calling yourself collect and refusing to accept the charges."

"I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal."

"Grateful [10w] + [10w] If you can't think of anything you should be grateful for,think that you can think and be grateful for that."

"A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good."

"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness."

"If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen."

"Teenagers [10w] Teenagers are the lone survivors of a ruthless hormonal holocaust."

"Tangled [10w] Love becomes a tangle of roots submerged in common soil."

"Bespeckled Heroes [10w] Great heroes in 100 years become statues speckled with birdshit."

"I couldn't loose somebody else like that, without even the chance to say good-bye. Not again. Not her."

"Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs."