#death

"When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)"

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

"How Much Space? {Couplet} Give a lover space enough to rejoice in their choice,but not enough room for their doubts to give voice."

"Family [10w] Family is a truth pill ~ just beware of an overdose."

"Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously."

"Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill."

"Forget [10w] {Couplet} Let's lift our goblet of regret,forgive, forsake and forget."

"Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get."

"Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal."

"Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens."

"Fame [10w] Fame has a funny way of rewriting your entire past."

"So since I'm still here livin',I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born."

"I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues."

"The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them."

"Self-Help I asked the bookseller,'Do you have any self-help books for addiction?'He said,'If I tell you, I'd be enabling you."

"I buried the lasagna, because it was better than disposing of a dead body. I’ve been burned in a relationship, but never in an oven. I’ll try harder."

"But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,If I am dead, as dead I well may be,You'll come and find the place where I am lying,And kneel and say Ave there for me,And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,For you will bend and tell me that you love me,And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me"

"Nomad {Couplet} When your roots grow from the outside in,home becomes whatever place you're in."

"If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button."

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