#poetry

"Shit Poetry [10w] Poetry without grace of expression is just so much shit."

"Informal HP Survey: Should Poetry Rhyme? O.K., readers, anybody who thinks poetry should rhymeplease tap your caneor jiggle your walker."

"The Uses Of Sorrow(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)Someone I loved once gave mea box full of darkness.It took me years to understandthat this, too, was a gift."

"My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of both; and my legacy is of the story of my soul, that my life left behind"

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

"Contiguous vs. Continuous Identity Identity's only preserved in death;in life it is ever-changing."

"Mind led bodyto the edge of the precipice.They stared in desireat the naked abyss.If you love me, said mind,take that step into silence.If you love me, said body,turn and exist."

"Hungry When you're hungry everything tastes good.Note to myself: Don't get married when you're hungry."

"❞ [10w] "Let's cuddle like a quotation mark filling a blank page."

"I walked a mile with Pleasure;She chatted all the way;But left me none the wiserFor all she had to say.I walked a mile with Sorrow;And ne’er a word said she;But, oh! The things I learned from her,When Sorrow walked with me."

"Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future."

"Fighting For Your Life [10w] 'Everything will be alright,'doesn't mean we stop the fight."

"My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness."

"Children are our future. We teach them today; what will they do tomorrow?"

"Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds."

"I couldn't tell fact from fiction,Or if the dream was trueMy only sure predictionIn this world was you.I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost."

"To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest."

"Fee-fi-fo-fum -Now I'm borrowed.Now I'm numb."

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

"Silly String [10w] Life' an absurdity radiating from a spine of silly string."