#personal-growth

"♀ Travelers vs. ♀ Tourists [10w] + [10w] Female travelers wear no makeup, stringy jewelry and Jesus sandals.Female travelers wear overcaked makeup, diamond jewelry and Gucci Booties."

"Political Strategists Avoids the Controversial [10w] Politicians win by pandering to the base of shared assumptions."

"Ruminating Poetry A poem should be eaten in one sittingbut regurgitated often like a ruminant's food."

"Sunshine On My Shoulders When you're home's always filled with sunshine,you're either blessed or it's time to fix the roof."

"The Poet's Disease My body atrophies.My mind swells.Imagination's become my crutch."

"Cleverness vs. Crime [10w] Being caught's the only difference between cleverness and crime."

"Boasting vs. Toasting [10w] + {Couplet} What many call boasting to my success I call toasting."

"Remorse among Thieves When a caught thief shows remorse he says to himself,"I knew I should pull off that heist differently."

"Siesta Mud tracked from the rice fields blazon a pathFrom kitchen to cellar escaping noon’s wrath.A quiet siesta to break the ordealOf scything and sifting and spinning the wheel.Half a dream later he returns to the fieldTo seeding earth’s furrows. massaging its yield.And when Sun descends gravely back to her tombHe tracks back to the kitchen, the cellar, his room."

"Humble Wishes [10w] "God, all I simply ask is that I become perfect."

"A Voice from the Past A book is a voice from the past whispering into your ear.Sometime I get the urge to exhume the author's bodyand hit him in the head with a shovel."

"Immortality [10w] True immortality means you've created something that will outlive you."

"Las Vegas Magic! I was the greatest magician in the world.Things were going great. My agent booked me to play the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas for $100,000 per performance!When I got onstage everything suddenly disappeared.I'm not sure if it was allan illusion or a delusion,but I cashed the check anyway just to be safe."

"To Trend or Not to Trend I've had a thousand trending poems,they were rarely my best.Evoking empathy and shared feelingis the poet's only true test."

"Your Poem A poem is a waking dream.If your poem is shit,then it was a fucking nightmare."

"Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace."

"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said."

"The Poet as Enchantress [10w] + {Couplet} The poet is an enchantress,with or without a dress."

"Too Much Information You must empty your mind of garbage to let new garbage in."

"Virtual Friends [10w] Internet camaraderie's bullshit because these 'friends' can't be relied upon."