Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[deathbypoem]

What you seek is seeking you.
― Rumi

[homoe]

you just might get it~~~

[Smiling]

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
-Stephen King

[Bèsame*]

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[Diablo]

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[Diablo]

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[Kobi]

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[ahk]

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.--Mahatma Gandhi

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[Duchess]

"Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a Butch sexy is not being self-aware. That's what's really cute to me."

[Electrocell]

Any fool can be happy when times are good. It takes a strong soul with real heart to develop smiles out of situations that make us weep.

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You can be fooled by a beautiful face never by a beautiful heart.


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Don't let your mind fool you with something your heart doesn't agree with, because love isn't just a choice its faith.


Tash Carter quotes

[Kobi]

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[Duchess]

"When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open." — Bob Marley

[Bèsame*]

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[Genesis]

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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[BestButchBoy]

"Make it simple, but significant."

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Dr. Maya Angelou: Poet, Educator and Civil Rights Advocate Dr. Maya Angelou, 86,
awakens in the ever after.....

I am at a loss for words...

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[Genesis]

How easy it is to get caught up in complaining about a chilly summer day ...
instead ... be grateful for the green it brings and that winter is gone.
Too quickly we wish for our children to grow up ...
then .... we wonder where the years went and wish for moments back.
Each time a frustration or irritation passes your thought wave ... stop and think for 5 things which you are grateful for ...
notice how quickly the frustration melts away and life seems somehow brighter.
- Jane Changes

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[VintageFemme]

STILL I RISE
Maya Angelou, 1928 - 2014


You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

[Degotoga]

"Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly."

- Lawrence G. Lovasik

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[Genesis]

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning.
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

- Louise Erdich

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[Duchess]

...... but at the length truth will out......
~Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice

[Kobi]

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[Talon]

~Irish Diplomacy.....:clover:



Telling someone to go to hell...and having them look forward to the trip.

[BestButchBoy]

“Love life, engage in it, give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back many times over what you put into it.” –Maya Angelou

[Kobi]

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[Trev]

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

[Talon]

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.


Abraham Lincoln

[Talon]

A lion doesn't fear a fly.



~Yiddish

[gotoseagrl]

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. Elizabeth Gaskell

[Trev]

"There are all types of love in this world, but never the same love twice."
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Chaos is an angel that fell in love with a demon."
~Christopher Poindexter

[BestButchBoy]

"Move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food. Open your mind, get off the couch, move."
–Anthony Bourdain

[Smiling]

Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a stranger,
Only to someone who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you.

Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

There are different wells within your heart.
Some fill with each good rain,
Others are far too deep for that

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Even after all this time the sun never says to the Earth, “You owe me”

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.


-Hafiz

[Talon]

Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a stranger,
Only to someone who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you.

Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

There are different wells within your heart.
Some fill with each good rain,
Others are far too deep for that

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Even after all this time the sun never says to the Earth, “You owe me”

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.


-Hafiz



>>>This is beautiful.

[Talon]

He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep in order to gain that which he cannot lose.


--Unknown

[Genesis]

How do you react when you think you need people's love?
Do you become a slave for their approval?
Do you live an inauthentic life because you can't bear the thought that they might disapprove of you?
Do you try to figure out how they would like you to be, and then try to become that, like a chameleon?
In fact, you never really get their love.
You turn into someone you aren't, and then when they say "I love you," you can't believe it, because they're loving a facade.
They're loving someone who doesn't even exist, the person you're pretending to be.
It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly.
In seeking it, you lose what is genuine.
This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
― Byron Katie

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[gotoseagrl]

“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”

― L.M. Montgomery

[Genesis]

Being alone will show you who you really are,
and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space in that room alone,
then you can absolutely forget about it after you add another person.
— Bryant McGill

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[Genesis]

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.
Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable.
Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
— Brené Brown

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[ahk]

I can live for two months on a good compliment.--Mark Twain

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[Trev]

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
~Helen Keller

[BestButchBoy]

"Do what makes you happy. Be focused. Be humble. Work toward what you want. Be kind, caring & loving. Move in silence, let your actions talk."

[Genesis]

You have escaped the cage.
Your wings are stretched out.
Now fly.

- Rumi

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[Trev]

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
~Apple Inc.

[Kobi]

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[cinnamongrrl]

Afoot and light hearted I take to the open road;
Healthy,free, the world before me,
The long brown path leading wherever I choose.
Henceforth, I ask not good fortune;
I myself am good fortune.
Henceforth, I wimper no more, postpone no more, I need nothing.
Im done with indoor complaints....
Strong and content I travel the open road.

~Walt Whitman~ Leaves of Grass

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[gotoseagrl]

I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me, That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea... There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute, except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters. DH Lawrence

[Kobi]

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[Trev]

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[BestButchBoy]

"Faskinatin', jest faskinatin'!"
- Bugs Bunny

[Degotoga]

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

[Trev]

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson


“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

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Don't let yourself become bitter and sad over someone else's self-loathing.
Hurting people hurt...it is their way of getting rid of the pain they feel inside.
They don't know any better and so the most sane one in a relationship must be the one to behave as a loving adult...and walk away with Love.
To stay is not loving to the one who is doing the attacking...it keeps them in that place of inner hell and it is not loving to yourself to accept such attacks.
When you walk away with LOVE...then LOVE can do its work in their Heart and you are FREE to be happy and peaceful. With Love from Eileen...the woman who walked away with LOVE

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[Genesis]

"The love that you search for is already within you.
It's not in another person. Through your practice, you have to reach into your own heart and soul and bring out this love and have value for it and grow it,
pay attention to it and learn from it, and allow it to expand.
When you do this, everything in the universe is going to come to you, because everything in the universe is looking for love."
— Swami Chetanananda

[Smiling]

It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

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[Talon]

Anger is a minor discovery compared with the larger treasures that lie beneath it, waiting to be unearthed. :veggie:



Gary Zukav

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[Genesis]

If you're doing something for someone else's approval, you may as well not do it at all.
There is only one reason to do anything: to announce and declare, express and fulfill, become and experience Who You Really Are.
Do what you do, therefore, for the sheer joy of it, for sheer joy is who you are.
Do what you choose, not what someone else chooses for you.
—Neale Donald Walsch

[Genesis]

I believe God wants you to know that your prayer has already been heard.
The Larger Part of You that is eternally connected with the Larger Part of Everything, called God, has actually been "processing your order" for a while now.
You don't have to speak it for it to be known.
So...the good news today is that your Perfect Outcome is on its way.
Bless, now, what shows up, and embrace it with gratitude.
This is the beginning of the rest of your life.
—Neale Donald Walsch

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[Trev]

"I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”
― SD Lennox

[SnackTime]

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[Trev]

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”
― George Bernard Shaw


“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.”
― Steve Maraboli

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[deathbypoem]

"The Heron cries in sorrow
Among the reeds in the marsh
as though something came to mind
it wanted to forget".

Furukami

[deathbypoem]

"Who are you that are wasted away in secret places"~Anonymous

[deathbypoem]

"Like a quivering Dove, upon a beam, I sat. ~Anonymous

[Genesis]

Who is in the house of my heart,
I cried in the middle of the night.

Love said,
"It is I, but what are all these images that fill your house?"

I said, they are the reflection of your beautiful face.

She asked,
"But what is this image full of pain?"

I said, it is me lost in the sorrows of life
and showed her my soul full of wounds.

She offered me one end of a thread and said:
"Take it so I can pull you back
but do not break the delicate string."

I reached towards her but she struck my hand.
I asked, why the harshness?

She said,
"To remind you that whoever comes to love’s holy space,
proud and full of himself will be sent away.
Look at love with the eyes of your heart.

- Rumi

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[Trev]

“Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.”
― Steve Maraboli


“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

[Kobi]

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[Jesse]

For My Daughter

By Sarah McMane
“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”

– Clementine Paddleford


Never play the princess when you can
be the queen:
rule the kingdom, swing a scepter,
wear a crown of gold.
Don’t dance in glass slippers,
crystal carving up your toes --
be a barefoot Amazon instead,
for those shoes will surely shatter on your feet.
Never wear only pink
when you can strut in crimson red,
sweat in heather grey, and
shimmer in sky blue,
claim the golden sun upon your hair.
Colors are for everyone,
boys and girls, men and women --
be a verdant garden, the landscape of Versailles,
not a pale primrose blindly pushed aside.
Chase green dragons and one-eyed zombies,
fierce and fiery toothy monsters,
not merely lazy butterflies,
sweet and slow on summer days.
For you can tame the most brutish beasts
with your wily wits and charm,
and lizard scales feel just as smooth
as gossamer insect wings.
Tramp muddy through the house in
a purple tutu and cowboy boots.
Have a tea party in your overalls.
Build a fort of birch branches,
a zoo of Legos, a rocketship of
Queen Anne chairs and coverlets,
first stop on the moon.
Dream of dinosaurs and baby dolls,
bold brontosaurus and bookish Belle,
not Barbie on the runway or
Disney damsels in distress --
you are much too strong to play
the simpering waif.
Don a baseball cap, dance with Daddy,
paint your toenails, climb a cottonwood.
Learn to speak with both your mind and heart.
For the ground beneath will hold you, dear --
know that you are free.
And never grow a wishbone, daughter,
where your backbone ought to be.

[Smiling]

A Late Walk

When I go up through the mowing field,
The headless aftermath,
Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew,
Half closes the garden path.

And when I come to the garden ground,
The whir of sober birds
Up from the tangle of withered weeds
Is sadder than any words

A tree beside the wall stands bare,
But a leaf that lingered brown,
Disturbed, I doubt not, by my thought,
Comes softly rattling down.

I end not far from my going forth
By picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
To carry again to you.

Robert Frost

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[Smiling]

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud


I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

William Wordsworth

[Bèsame*]

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[Jesse]

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”― F. Scott Fitzgerald

[deathbypoem]

The Peace of Wild Things




When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

~Wendell Berry

[deathbypoem]

“Wouldn’t it be fine if we could prove things with our mind, and know for certain that things are always in their place. I’d like to know what a place is like when I’m not there. I’d like to be sure.”



~ Ray Bradbury~ "The Illustrated Man"


(btw, great book)

[deathbypoem]

"All these years, all these memories, there was you. You pulled me through time."

from the movie "The Fountain"

[deathbypoem]

I would go to hell to find you.~ What Dreams May Come

[Smiling]

My Love Reveals Objects


My love reveals objects
silken butterflies
concealed in his fingers

his words
splash me with stars

night shines like lightning
under the fingers of my love

My love invents worlds where
jeweled glittering serpents live

worlds where music is the world

worlds where houses with open eyes
contemplate the dawn

My love is a mad sunflower that forgets
fragments of sun in the silence

Isabel Fraire

[Talon]

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick, it even makes me rhyme.
I hate the way you always think you're right, I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, I hate you worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
But most of all I hate the way that I don't hate you. Not even close,
not a little bit, not even at all.



~ Ten things I Hate About You

[Genesis]

First there was Helen of Sparta, who did it only
with oil, no one knows how; then there was
Maggie of England, who even on the battlefield
put men back together; and then there was Rose
of the deepest South, who stood up in her father’s
clothes and walked out of the house and herself.

Disguised women were always among them.
They badly wanted to wear blue, they badly
wanted to wear red, they wanted to blend
with the woods or ground. Together
with men they were blown from their pronouns.
Their faces too were shot off which were then
free of their bodies. “I never had any dolls I only
had soldiers. I played soldier from the minute
I was born. Dropped my voice down almost
into the earth, wore bandages where I didn’t
need them, was finally discovered by the doctor,
was finally discovered at the end.”

Someone thought long and hard how to best
make my brother blend into the sand. He came
back and he was heaped up himself like a dune,
he was twice the size of me, his sight glittered
deeper in the family head, he hid among himself,
and slid, and stormed, and looked the same
as the next one, and was hot and gold and some-
where else.

My brother reached out his hand to me and said,
“They should not be over there. Women should not
be over there.” He said, “I watched people burn
to death. They burned to death in front of me.”
A week later his red-haired friend killed himself.
And even his name was a boy’s name: Andrew.

A friend writes to him, “My dress blues are being
altered for a bloodstripe.” That’s a beautiful line,
I can’t help hearing. “Kisses,” he writes to a friend.
His friend he writes back, “Cuddles.” Bunch of girls,
bunch of girls. They write each other, “Miss you,
brother.” Bunch of girls, bunch of girls. They passed
the hours with ticklefights. They grew their mustaches
together. They lost their hearts to local dogs,
what a bunch of girls.

I sent my brother nothing in the desert because
I was busy writing poems. Deciding one by one
where the breath commas went, or else it would
not stand and walk. This was going to be a poem
about release from the body. This was going
to be a poem about someone else, maybe even me.

My brother is alive because of a family capacity
for little hairs rising on the back of the neck.
The night the roadside bomb blew up, all three
sisters dreamed of him. There, I just felt it,
the family capacity. My brother is alive because
the family head sometimes hears a little voice.

I had been writing the poem before the boy died.
It then did not seem right to mention that burn means
different things in different bodies. I was going
to end the poem with a line about the grass. But
they were in the desert, and I was in the desert when
I thought about them, and no new ending appeared
to me. I was going to write, “The hill that they died on
was often a woman, wearing the greatest uniform of war,
which is grass.” I know my little brother’s head. The scalp
is almost green, where the hair is shortest. I know
my little brother’s head, and that is where the ending
lives, the one that sends the poem home, and makes grass
stand up on the back of the neck, and fits so beautiful
no one can breathe—the last words live
in the family head, and let them live in there a while.

[Genesis]

“I’m seeing things as half-empty again,
the glass of water, the plane, the old lipsticks
& bottles of lotion, the void, the room,
the table that could sit just one more,
the basement, the spaces between sidewalks.
The sky is even half-empty without the crowd
of clouds that used to guide me to a half-empty home,
a bed half-filled with a love that was still never enough,
the way that her tears would soak the sheets.”

[Genesis]

Hay países que yo recuerdo
como recuerdo mis infancias.
Son países de mar o río,
de pastales, de vegas y aguas.
Aldea mía sobre el Ródano,
rendida en río y en cigarras;
Antilla en palmas verdi-negras
que a medio mar está y me llama;
¡roca lígure de Portofino,
mar italiana, mar italiana!

Me han traído a país sin río,
tierras-Agar, tierras sin agua;
Saras blancas y Saras rojas,
donde pecaron otras razas,
de pecado rojo de atridas
que cuentan gredas tajeadas;
que no nacieron como un niño
con unas carnazones grasas,
cuando las oigo, sin un silbo,
cuando las cruzo, sin mirada.

Quiero volver a tierras niñas;
llévenme a un blando país de aguas.
En grandes pastos envejezca
y haga al río fábula y fábula.
Tenga una fuente por mi madre
y en la siesta salga a buscarla,
y en jarras baje de una peña
un agua dulce, aguda y áspera.

Me venza y pare los alientos
el agua acérrima y helada.
¡Rompa mi vaso y al beberla
me vuelva niñas las entrañas!

[deathbypoem]

“Art still has truth. Take refuge there.”
― Matthew Arnold

[deathbypoem]

"The deer on Pine Mountain,
where there are no falling leaves,
knows the coming of Autumn
Only by the sound of his own voice".

-Rexroth

[Jesse]

I don’t know much, and I don't understand all I know. - Me

[~baby~doll~]

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[deathbypoem]

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
...live in the question.” ~Rilke

[deathbypoem]

“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”
― Anaïs Nin

[deathbypoem]

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Khalil Gibran

[deathbypoem]

“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”
― Pema Chödrön

[deathbypoem]

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[deathbypoem]

The following is a snippit of a poem
that I wrote that is included in my book.

Please understand that
all rights are reserved and
copyrighted. Work may not be
distributed or used elsewhere
without consent of author.




"How swollen are our hearts
when the sun goes down
into desolate night.
Come morning,
everything we bare
has learned to expire on its own."

vNova©copyright2014

[Bèsame*]

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[deathbypoem]

“One only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox. “Men have
no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the
shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so
men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me. . .”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

[BestButchBoy]

"If you are in a relationship that causes you imbalance and anguish, get out. We come together in relationships to grow, not to live in misery."

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[deathbypoem]

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”
― Wendell Berry

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[deathbypoem]

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that
they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane
enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and
compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident
and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.


~Pema Chodron

[Genesis]

"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found. You are the sky. Everything else... It's just the weather.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.

To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back.

They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.”

~ Pema Chodron

[deathbypoem]

I am not afraid. I am astonished. I had not realized until this moment how real everything is. A twig lies on the marble at my feet, bearing a cluster of hard brown berries. The broken-off end is raw, white, fleshly. Trees are alive.

"I'm here," Carlton says again, and he is.”

~ A home at the end of the world

[deathbypoem]

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"I came back because I knew
if I didn't stand in front of you and apologize
I wouldn't ever be able to live with myself"

[Genesis]

I want to fuck
the way we did when we believed
we were invincible
when we thought ourselves unbreakable
when we knew nothing of hearts shattering
or bones fracturing under the weight of unrealized dreams

I want to promise the impossible/again

I want to unlearn this hesitation
that colors my steps/measured
slow/trudge that I am now
I want the urge
to move erratic/irrational
fall helplessly in lust with someone
who was promised to someone else

I want to know that we were meant for each other

without proof I want to know
we were divined
by God or fate or fortune
I want my actions
to belie the fact of these brutal years
that have shuttered me
passions held taut beneath this loose gut

I want my body back

the one that could wrap itself careless
round the idea of forever/without fear
I want to leap off some idiotic ledge/I want to
hedge less
I want to erase these lines drawn definitive
round the edges of what I can do
i want to ignore the blotted lines running decisive
through the list of things I decided not to do

I want to do everything
you ask
ask you anything/without knowing
how you will answer

I want to shake this inertia

move you to tears/with the things
I am too afraid to say to you
late at night/early morning sex
unexpected

I want to fuck like we did
when we were doing it/for love
foolhardy/with hardly any fear of the future

I want to believe in love/like I did
before I had a kid/before we knew how to stop
mid-orgasm
before these impermeable cracks
hammered steel beams through the fragile flesh of my heart

before my art started making money
before balancing my emotional budget became a thing
I needed to do
before our wings broke
before the yoke of collected experience
dragged us away from our best selves

I want to do more than just fuck

I want more days of feeling/foolish
and full/and flustered/and flushed

I want more
of myself/more of you
more of us
wanting more out of today
and tomorrow
and all the days
we aren't even sure will ever come
I want to do everything you ask ask you anything/without knowing how you will answer...

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[lilapache]

He who throws dirt is losing ground.
author unknown

[ProfPacker]

the Rizzoli & Isles commercial just said "Behind Every Great Woman is Another Great Woman" couldn't agree more

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[Talon]

I am seeking,
I am striving,
I am in it with all of my :heartbeat:


~Van Gogh



Art is the stored honey of the human soul.


~Unknown

[Genesis]

Patience, above all else, is what is needed right now.
Do not let anxiousness or frustration take over.
Conditions on the exterior of your experience will change, but your highest benefit will be achieved when conditions in your interior remain the same.
Hold to your inner peace.
Reclaim your identity.
Trust your higher wisdom.
Look to the grander vision.

—Neale Donald Walsch

[deathbypoem]

“Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.”
― Walt Whitman

[deathbypoem]

"Well,basically I have intuition.
I mean, the DNA of who I am is based on
the millions of personalities of all
the programmers who wrote me.
But what makes me ,me
is my ability to grow through my experiences.
So basically, in every moment I'm evolving,
just like you. ~from the Movie "Her"

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When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.

For it isn’t your father, or mother, or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.

He’s the fellow to please – never mind all the rest
For he’s with you, clear to the end
And you’ve passed your most difficult, dangerous test
If the man in the glass is your friend.

You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years
And get pats on the back as you pass
But your final reward will be heartache and tears
If you’ve cheated the man in the glass.

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[deathbypoem]

"It is not from ourselves
that we learn to be better
than we are. ~Wendell Berry

[deathbypoem]

“The only way to find true happiness
is to risk being completely cut open.”

~Chuck Palahniuk

[deathbypoem]

“But from each crime are born bullets
that will one day seek out in you
where the heart lies.” ~Neruda

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[deathbypoem]

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.”
― Robert Frost

[deathbypoem]

“Our lives are not our own.
We are bound to others,
past and present, and by each crime
and every kindness,
we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell

[deathbypoem]

And for all I know he is sitting there still,
under his favorite cork tree,
smelling the flowers just quietly”
― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

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[Talon]

Life moves pretty fast.
If you don't stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it.



~Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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[deathbypoem]

"My war ships are lying off the coast
of your delicate heart
And my aim is steady and true
as it's been right from the start~Dallas Green (City and Colour)

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[Genesis]

There are so many people in need, who are quietly hovering near the abysmal edges of emotional bankruptcy. Life is dynamic, and it can be ugly. Thomas Hobbes wrote in Leviathan that life was, "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." And Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden that, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." Too many people are living those lives of quiet desperation. This is one of the reasons so many people anesthetize themselves with a never-ending, gluttonous consumption of mass entertainment, television, technology and fruitless consumerism. The rise of technology, corporatism and consumerism has slowly smothered out a way of relating to the world that seems to be almost lost forever—analogue and in-person. Along with the rise of technology has come a very strange arrogance. There are so many disillusioned and disconnected people out there prancing around because of the powerful technology they use, but what do they really use it for? We have all these shiny, almost magical things, but are we really happier, or wiser? While much of the technology we are senselessly addicted to promises us greater connectedness, people are more isolated, disconnected and lonely, than ever before in history.

People feel more and more insignificant, cut-off and powerless. We are buried in a mountain of information, technology, gadgets, goods and manufactured complexities. We are lost and rendered nearly invisible in a digital snowstorm of super-connectivity. It is a form of anonymity through mass-connection. True community has been nearly eviscerated, and a tactile-less mockery of community has been put in its place. Houses and apartments have become cubical prison-tombs, where millions of screen-irradiated mummies hide from the sunlight, nature, and genuine social interaction. People have social anxiety because of their lack of experience relating to humans in person. At airports and restaurants people eat alone, and strangers seldom talk. Everyone is texting, emailing, rushing, surfing and being connection-entertained with social media, and yet somehow, we are tragically ALONE.

Absent the vital lessons attained through simple face-to-face community interactions, and tainted by the identity propaganda being mass-ejected out of the media weapons for the highest bidders, people soon become observers of life rather than participants. They begin seeing the "good life" as something to attain through goods, services, and external providers, and forget that the so-called Kingdom of Heaven is within. It is almost as though people are suffering from dissociative personality disorder, where the constructed consumer-self has no close relationships, except with need providers. Even our life partners can become just another external need provider. Modern consumer life is like a mass dissociative disorder which prevents people from experiencing essential truth, real-life community, universal rites of passage and even an acceptable and reasonable death. Consumer life is essentially a social psychology framework, which seeks to keep your consciousness plugged into their head-end of ideals and created needs, for profit. The result of this assault is a growing culture of fear-subdued, disconnected, isolated and mass-distracted people who feel powerless.
— Bryant McGill

[Genesis]

I was dead
I came alive
I was tears
I became laughter

All because of love
when it arrived
my temporal life
from then on
changed to eternal

Love said to me
you are not
crazy enough
you don't
fit this house

I went and
became crazy
crazy enough
to be in chains

Love said
you are not
intoxicated enough
you don't
fit the group

I went and
got drunk
drunk enough
to overflow
with light-headedness

Love said
you are still
too clever
filled with
imagination and skepticism

I went and
became gullible
and in fright
pulled away
from it all

Love said
you are a candle
attracting everyone
gathering every one
around you

I am no more
a candle spreading light
I gather no more crowds
and like smoke
I am all scattered now

Love said
you are a teacher
you are a head
and for everyone
you are a leader

I am no more
not a teacher
not a leader
just a servant
to your wishes

Love said
you already have
your own wings
I will not give you
more feathers

And then my heart
pulled itself apart
and filled to the brim
with a new light
overflowed with fresh life

Now even the heavens
are thankful that
because of love
I have become
the giver of light.

- Rumi

[BestButchBoy]

"A more empowering alternative to envy is gratitude. Envy creates a feeling of lack & limitation; gratitude fosters a mindset of abundance."

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[puddin']

"support bacteria. it's the only culture some people have." ~j.t. clark

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[Trev]

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[Trev]

"Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured."
~Gordon B. Hinckley

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin."
~Grace Hansen

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Please take some quiet time to meditate on the incalculable beauty of the gift of life.
Remember to take some time each day to play.
Touch the Earth, walk on the grass barefoot, swipe the dew from a leaf with your finger, take a deep breath and remember what you are — you are a beautiful child of creation.
Glory, glory, glory to you "people of beauty" everywhere, and to the wonderment of each breath.
Thank you, thank you, thank you — that from somewhere, somehow, a new smile is available for each heart each new day.
Look for your smile. Joy is in the simple things; it was always meant for you to have.
— Bryant McGill

[Genesis]

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it.
When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly,
mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

― Jiddu Krishnamurti