#poetry

"They'd Rather Switch [10w] Hearing is wasted on the blind;sight, on the deaf."

"How to Treat Your Lover {Couplet} If you want to learn how your lover best to treat,Pretend each time is the last time you'll ever meet."

"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."

"Unruffled [10w] Nothing’s calmer than an unruffled duck eating a cool cucumber."

"We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!Our dried voices, whenWe whisper togetherAre quiet and meaninglessAs wind in dry grassOr rats' feet over broken glassIn our dry cellarShape without form, shade without colour,Paralysed force, gesture without motion;- The Hollow Men"

"In the DesertIn the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter—bitter,” he answered; “But I like it “Because it is bitter, “And because it is my heart."

"But some nights, I must tell you,I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep.I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness.I sing a love song as well as I can,lost for a while in the home of the rain."

"She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be."

"Marriage [10w] The only thing better than forgiveness in marriage is forgetfulness."

"How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!As tho’ to breathe were life!"

"Free Lunch There's no such thing as a free lunch ~for people who haven't yet learned to beat the system ;)"

"Though we tremble before uncertain futuresmay we meet illness, death and adversity with strengthmay we dance in the face of our fears."

"A Moment Before Impact [10w] The deer's eyes were moonstones, reflecting back my car's headlights."

"Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity."

"Curse of the Ageing Woman {Couplet} I'm a wallflower, bluestocking, left on the Shelf, When you're beyond one's sell-by date, you've left by yourself,"

"Sometimes I think,I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel."

"[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet."

"Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels."

"Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves."

"My friend, you thought you lost Him;that all your life you've been separated from Him.Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him,and haven't searched within your own house."