#poetry

"O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start;You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart."

"Green was the silence, wet was the light,the month of June trembled like a butterfly."

"Explosive Heart [10w] + {Couplet} A heart that's been playedcan become a hand grenade."

"Coffee Wisdom New Yawk [6] You either pay me the five large nowor yoos can choosebetween the toilet plungeror the hot coffee enemaya fuckin jamook."

"Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds."

"I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here."

"I may not always be with you But when we're far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart"

"Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be."

"I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearrange it, take away and tear apart until it finds value in my reality and there I make it work. I find spaces in between the cracks and cuts where it feels empty and there I make it work."

"Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling."

"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."

"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."

"Show Up [10w] I've waited for you all my life ~show up already!"

"So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my body on a distant shore."

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."

"Still Hangin' in the Child Hood [20w] You can spend an entire lifetime trying to be a child again,or never lose your childhood to begin with."

"We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night..."

"Hope for the Heartbroken A broken heartremains in piecesbut learns to love againwith every fragment."

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."

"Small Packages [10w] Great things come in small packages from a geological perspective."