#poetry

"They are not long, the days of wine and roses:Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for awhile, then closesWithin a dream."

"If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all."

"Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins."

"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"

"Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe,Sooner than I will live with you.Fish will come walking out of the sea,Sooner than you will come back to me."

"Gained in Translation [10w] In timeless truths there's more gained than lost in translation."

"I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and sank."

"Disability [10w] Unconditional love can turn a child's disability into an advantage."

"Angels walk amongst those with broken wings. Those with broken wings only need to be given a little love before their hearts can flutter and take flight once again.-Amanda Mosher and Jarod Kintz"

"To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge."

"A grain of poetry suffices to season a century."

"I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!"

"Getting Real about the Eel It's not that eel wants to avoid commitment.From the eel's point of view, it is a matter of survival.Who the fuck wants to be with an eel anyway,when there are plenty of less slippery fish."

"Don't Quit ❣ Don't quit on love and it won't bail on you."

"Love isn’t in a hurry like a flurry of flowery words on paper. It’s lush and slow to grow its aroma in the garden of time."

"I do not know which to prefer,The beauty of inflectionsOr the beauty of innuendosThe blackbird whistlingOr just after."

"The Written Word The only thing I hold dearer than myself(and my moms, yo') ~is the written word.I'd give my life for that bitch, (yo'.)"

"Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

"Vacations for Souls [10w] When souls are bored in Heaven they vacation in Hell."

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