#poetry

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

"there isn't enough of anythingas long as we live. But at intervalsa sweetness appears and, given a chanceprevails."

"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place."

"Hi-Yo Silver! Away! [10w] "Kimosabe, me wanna fuckum Pamela, pronto.My teepee's blue."Tonto"

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

"I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

"My Brooklyn Childhood [10w] "Motherfucker! I gotta put more goddamn change in the swear-jar."

"Spontaneous Gift Giving [10w] Learn to give gifts spontaneously accompanied by a love note."

"Humble Wishes [10w] "God, all I simply ask is that I become perfect."

"My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life began;So is it now I am a man;"

"Spirituality and Aging Spirituality comes naturally to the old because they're running out of options."

"I choose to love this time for oncewith all my intelligence-from "Splittings"

"Talking to Myself I used to talk to myself until myself criticized myself.Now I'm giving myself the silent treatment."

"This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best. Night, sleep, and the stars."

"Deadly Sex Haiku Each thrust of his cockwas another coffin nailhammered in my heart."

"… and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you."

"Informal HP Survey: Should Poetry Rhyme? O.K., readers, anybody who thinks poetry should rhymeplease tap your caneor jiggle your walker."

"The Fate of Prodigies [10w] Early to peak, early to deal with obsolescence and obscurity."

"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."

"You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say?Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?"