#poetry

"O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In deeds of daring rectitude..."

"It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends"

"We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side."

"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."

"I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers."

"The sunset produces flower clouds in a garden in the sky, and while there is still light you can see a heavenly representation of my love for you.The sunrise produces rays that light up the world like your eyes do when you're with me. They shimmer and I can see the stars in your eyes that gleam from your soul.-Jarod Kintz and Karen Quan"

"My mouth is a fire escape.The words coming outdon’t care that they are naked.There is something burning in there."

"What Women Think Women don't care if you got a six pack if you slurp you soup."

"Scissor, Paper, Rock [10w] When time acts like a scissor,react like a rock."

"So runs my dream, but what am I?An infant crying in the nightAn infant crying for the lightAnd with no language but a cry."

"The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds."

"To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge"

"Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while."

"Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!"

"Oppressor vs. Oppressed [10w] Love somtimes disintegrates into becoming the oppressor or the oppressed."

"Nobody the dead man & Nobody the livingNobody is giving in & Nobody is givingNobody hears me but just Nobody caresNobody fears me but Nobody just staresNobody belongs to me & Nobody remainsNo Nobody knows nothingAll that remains are remains"

"Genesis {Couplet} God spoke the world into existence, reifying an abstraction.Now the Creator's had second thoughts and wishes to utter a retraction."

"Dammit Goddammit' Defined [10w] Damned if you do and damned if you don't double-bind."

"...Time held me green and dyingThough I sang in my chains like the sea."

"Glow in the Dark "You've led me from stark nightwith a love that glows in the dark."