#poetry

"Lost Love [10w] + {Couplet} Lost love's the season of mists,Though they are gone, memory persists."

"I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake."

"Time Traveler's Ennui The future ain't what it use to be."

"A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think."

"The Gypsy Jackpot An ambulance, a police car and a fire truck parked in front of a gypsy's trailer can only mean one thing ~ insurance scam!"

"You had this expression on your face, like you weren’t quite sure you were supposed to be on Earth."

"I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you."

"Poets Be Realists! Poets be realists!It's O.K. to keep your jobs ~just don't quit your day dreams."

"Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall"

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

"My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy."

"Embittered [10w] "His heart blistered like paint peeling from an old rig."

"What if you slept?What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then?"

"In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway."

"Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettingit's there and sitting downon itand because you areforever making poems in the lapof death Humanityi hate you"

"You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face"

"Enemies [10w] I prefer my enemies death than apologeticfor closure's sake"

"Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt."

"A pine tree standeth lonelyIn the North on an upland bare;It standeth whitely shroudedWith snow, and sleepeth there.It dreameth of a Palm treeWhich far in the East alone,In the mournful silence standethOn its ridge of burning stone."

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