#death

"Dammit Goddammit' Defined [10w] Damned if you do and damned if you don't double-bind."

"Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death."

"Love on Fire [10w] A man in love cannot see fire or smell smoke."

"The Poet's Job [10w] + {Couplet} Trigger memory, explode an emotion;the poet must create commotion....................................................­....................."

"Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing."

"When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them."

"Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides."

"She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her."

"To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace."

"The Wonder of Wandering [10w] When you wander without destination,the world becomes your teacher."

"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!"

"Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too."

"Babel [10w] Building a tower to reach God doesn't require any bricks."

"Sink or Swim [10w] Lovers master the breaststroke, the crawl and the muff dive."

"Comedy vs. Satire [10w] Comedy pokes fun at society's self-inflation;satire deflates the balloon."

"One Poet, 20 Months, 6000 Poems [10w] Let me take this breath... to celebrate my 6000th poem."

"Out-of-the-Box [10w] I march to my own drummerin a drum circle."

"Overheard at McDonalds "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.Are you going to finish those fries?"

"Tapestry [10w] Life's a tapestry of mystery and miracles quilted by God."

"Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go."