#mastery

"2 Rules on Becoming a Good Poet [10w] Rule#1: Never write shitty poetry.Rule#2: Never forget Rule #1."

"Cookie Cutter Criticism A critic tried to fit my sense of humor in a cookie cutter,but it wouldn't fit his preconceived shape of what comedy should be.So he pressed harder, and harder and harder until the cookie cutter cut a cookie shaperight through the palm of his hand.It doesn't hurt anymore when the critic tries to slap me in the face.There's no more hot-air resistance."

"Tofino, Canada Haiku Free flowing clothes,Strumming guitar on the beach.Still my baggage follows me."

"Obscure Poetry Obscurity does not make a poem better or deeper.It simply makes it obscure."

"Got Hate? When a hater cozily whispers shit in your ear about them,what does that say about you?"

"Styx Haiku Boatman refusesto paddle me down the Styx.'No carry-on baggage."

"What is God? [17] [10w] God has a fondness for cosmology and carbon-based life forms."

"ᏰέƦẙḽԃṏሁ Լέῳ [10w] II ᏰέƦẙḽԃṏሁ Լέῳ accounts for 15.7% of all Hello Poetry's pageviews."

"♥ Love ♡ My heart skips a beat every time you walk through the door!It isn't love ~ I have an arrhythmia."

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

"Coffee Wisdom New Yawk [6] You either pay me the five large nowor yoos can choosebetween the toilet plungeror the hot coffee enemaya fuckin jamook."

"Trance & Instinct The best poems come from trance and instinct;transcribing the unedited voice of universal consciousness."

"Listen to the Wisdom of Shakespeare 'To thine own self be true and fuck'em till they're back and blue."

"God is Great [10w] God found me in a dumpster and made me holy."

"Sixty is the New Fifty The good news is sixty is the new fifty.The bad news is twenty is the new ten."

"As Dead As "Nothing's changed at my place of birth.It is as dead as I remember leaving it."

"How to Exercise Caution [10w] Walk in the counsel of the wickedon your treadmill."

"Truth {Couplet} Since every truth worth saying, has been already said,our job's to refine it, question it, or turn it on its head."

"Heaven [10w] Heaven’s not a destination ~it’s a way of processing life."

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