#relationships

"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being."

"Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend."

"The 3 Most Powerful Words in the English Language for Every College Student [3w] Ilovepizza"

"Poetry and Ostrich Feathers A poet should leave his poem covered with a faint film of fairy dust,inviting the reader to bring his faint heartand an ostrich feather duster to the reading."

"GPS for Sin "You've entered the point of no return;Re-cal-cu-la-ting."

"I prefer long-distance relationships. If we were dating, would you be offended if I asked you to stand back a few feet?"

"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it."

"I make furniture that can be used as weapons. The most dangerous piece of furniture is the Loveseat."

"Truth builds trust."

"I pictured Cupid sitting in a crappy little bar, drunk and depressed, while he moaned to the bartender, "That Jasmine Parks, gods, she pisses me off! Did you see what she just did? Totally blew off this immortal stud to play kiss-the-boo-boo with a fickle little rent-a-cop. Why? 'Cause she's the biggest chickenshit on the planet! I'm ready to toss my bow and pick up a bazooka!"

"You Can't Win [10w] Every bitch is a witch;every wife brings you strife."

"The Poet as Enchantress [10w] + {Couplet} The poet is an enchantress,with or without a dress."

"I held her gaze as I held her in my arms. With all that holding I couldn’t hold on to the moment, and it slipped past me into the lonely past."

"Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love."

"Iowa Haiku "We're not really dull,we are just misunderstood.Weed helps dull the pain."

"A pitcher throws baseballs, but a pitcher also holds liquid. My emotions are so fluid I wonder how large the pitcher would have to be to hold my heart. Probably 6’3”."

"Love.Not the kind you see in the movies or hear about on the radio.The real kind.The kind that gets beaten down and bloody, yet perseveres.The kind that hopes even when hope seems foolish.The kind that can forgives. The kind that believes in healing. The kind that can sit in silence and feel renewed.The real kind of love.It's rare and we have it.."

"A Matter of Perspective I see rain dancing on the stage of the pond.Fish see heaven throwing a thousand kisses.My wife see a drizzle of olive oil on a pot of spaghetti. The scientist sees condensation and precipitation.The rain sees reincarnation.A poet see them all in permutation."

"I miss her like 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, and 5 misses 8. When we made love, our two bodies formed one spiral that seemed to cycle to the sky."

"Vices [10w] Cultivate vices;to be without them is not to be."