#power-of-words

"Kansas State Motto Ad astra per aspera. [9]Flat land and flatline intelligence."

"Regret vs. Good Times "If I had to regret the good times I spent with every lover who eventually disillusioned me,my love life would be reduced to ten seconds."

"A Real Passionate Kiss Should Feel Like Dying [10w] Like ice melting into water coming to a rolling boil."

"Fig The proud oak wed a seedling figHe welcomed her caressThough round his lofty limbs she woundHe saw no need for distress.The fig enveloped all his trunkHer grip grew firm and tightThe oak withered in his arroganceAs she choked off his last light."

"Poets and Competitiveness [10w] "I'm the only poet I need to be better than."

"From the Slobodan Milošević interview during the the Hague Tribunal : 'What are your hobbies?' [10w] "I enjoy gardening because weeding reminds me of ethnic cleansing."

"Children Learn to Love and Hate A child understands love by three months and hate by three years.How the child processes that understandingwill shape his character for the next seventy."

"Six-Pack [10w] A six-pack of beer's inversely proportional to six-pack of abs."

"Pedestals [10w] People should not be placed on pedestals unless they're stuffed."

"Trickeries, Sophistries and Traps [10w] Life's great irony is that we, the trapped,set traps."

"Prayer [10w] Despite God's grace, prayer is not a wish granting well."

"No-brainers [10w] No-brainers are challenging enough for people with no fucking brains."

"Compassion [10w] Compassion is the combination to enter the vault of heaven."

"Detonation vs. Pre-Ignition [10w] Poets have thin skins;physicists call this differential burn rates."

"Hug [10w] To embrace what you truly love,give it a hug."

"Love's a Sacred Vessel [10w] Love's the sacred vessel embracing the mystical energy of evolution."

"Tangled [10w] Love becomes a tangle of roots submerged in common soil."

"Evil [10w] Believing you're evil sets into motion the wheels of self-destruction."

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

"There's More Than Two Choices [10w] Don't take the road less traveled;blaze your own path."