loved this one for years...
 

How Will You Kiss?

Lilt me your lips,
our lost breath intermingling.

Synchronize our silence
as lazy hours ease by.

Waft cocoa, hazelnut, cinnamon,
scents around me.

Tremble with me
in paralyzing pauses.

I may no longer breathe
without breathing you.


- Judith Pordon



Como Besaras?


Enciendanme tus labios
Nuestros alientos perdidos entremezclandose

Sincroniza nuestro silencio
al perezoso pasar de las horas.

LLeva el aire aromas de cacao,
nuez, canela que me rodean

Tiembla conmigo
con pausas paralizantes

Quizá no pueda respirar más
sin respirarte a ti.


-Judith Pordon

-Translated by John Ramos

AMANTE

A waterfall of hair
cascades
down your shoulders.

Silence breathes us,
butterflies
in our hands.

Our dinners
half eaten
packed for later.

A five star meal
relished
on our warm spines.

While we languish
on rented sheets.
No bickering moments,

dismal doubts,
or monotonous chores
shudder our cloistered moments.

Eternity is not
a diamond ring.
It is here.


Grace Ezequiel

“Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

--- writers do not write to impart knowledge to others; rather, they write to inform themselves.
- Judith Guest

I wouldn't know how to live in a treeless country, and where I live now, the compass of my dreams always points north.

-- Czeslaw Milosz
(Symbolic Mountains and Forests)

On bigotry: I spent a little bit of time researching the term bigotry: how the term bigotry is defined, how it operates, its etymology. Results of my limited research include a commonly held definition (wiki):

Bigotry is the state of mind of a bigot, defined by Merriam-Webster as "a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially: one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance." [1] Bigotry may be based on real or perceived characteristics, including age, disability, dissension from popular opinions, economic status, ethnicity, gender identity, languag, nationality, personal habits, political alignment, race, region, religious or spiritual belief, sex, species, or sexual orientation. Bigotry is sometimes developed into an ideology or world view (Wikipedia).

And, an illustration:

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye:
The more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Rilke....
 

You Who Never Arrived

You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don't even know what songs
would please you. I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of
the next moment. All the immense
images in me -- the far-off, deeply-felt
landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and
unsuspected turns in the path,
and those powerful lands that were once
pulsing with the life of the gods--
all rise within me to mean
you, who forever elude me.

You, Beloved, who are all
the gardens I have ever gazed at,
longing. An open window
in a country house-- , and you almost
stepped out, pensive, to meet me.
Streets that I chanced upon,--
you had just walked down them and vanished.
And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors
were still dizzy with your presence and,
startled, gave back my too-sudden image.
Who knows? Perhaps the same
bird echoed through both of us
yesterday, separate, in the evening...


Katniss~~

There is no substitute for hard work.- Thomas Edison

If you can't heal a wound don't tear it open. -Irish Proverb

A moment in time can make some unhappy forever. - Unknown

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything” -Katharine Hepburn

I adore this, Katzchen <3

She was passion's child, born where showers triple light, and scorches even the kiss. She was one made but to love, to feel that she was his, who was her chosen one. What was said elsewhere was nothing--she had not to fear, hope, care, nor love beyond..her heart beat here. :heartbeat:

~Lord Byron

The right wing would love nothing more than for us to spend all of our airtime discussing distractions such as polygamy and other from their point of view doomsday scenarios rather than engage the public about committed same-sex couples being discriminated against.

Evan Wolfson quotes

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard David Bach

“Everything you can imagine is real.” -― Pablo Picasso

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.” - Lewis Carro
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”― Albert Einstein

gossip spreads like wild fires while the truth is often times smothered-Author Unknown

Splendidis longum valedico Nugis

Leave me, O Love, which reaches but to dust,

And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things!

Grow rich in that which never taketh rust:

Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings.

Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might

To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be;

Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the light

That doth both shine and give us sight to see.

O take fast hold! let that light be thy guide

In this small course which birth draws out to death,

And think how evil becometh him to slide

Who seeketh Heaven, and comes of heavenly breath.

Then farewell, world! thy uttermost I see:

Eternal Love, maintain thy life in me!


Sir Philip Sidney

Tenacity is never giving up on yourself or your dreams, it is telling people to shove it up their arse when they're trying to deter or disuade you from what you really want or need. It is also standing firm when you really believe in something. Frankly, it is being a dog with a bone. It is the dogs with bones that change the world. And we should all aspire to that.


~T. Coffey

"There is no room in my body for anything but you. My arms love you, my ears adore you, my knees shake with blind affection. My mind begs you to ask it something so it can obey. Do you want me to follow you for the rest of your days? I will do that. Do you want me to crawl? I will crawl. I will be quiet for you or sing for you, or if you are hungry, let me bring you food, or if you have thirst and nothing will quench it but Arabian wine, I will go to Araby, even though it is across the world, and bring a bottle back for your lunch. Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do." -William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”― Cassandra Clare

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...” ― Khaled Hosseini

“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.” ― Paulo Coelho

“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles”

http://thinkexist.com/i/sq/as4.gif Mahatma Gandhi


“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.”

http://thinkexist.com/i/sq/as0.gif John W. Holt, Jr.


"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye."
- Helen Keller

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ~James D. Miles

"The best of us must sometimes eat our words.” ― J.K. Rowling

“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.- Eric Roth


“The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.” ― Kami Garcia

Harmony means creating a life in which everything gives to and supports every other aspect of your life. It requires that your mind and heart, your work and play, your physical reality and spiritual reality enhance each other and add value to others.

~Iyanla Vanzant

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
~Mother Teresa

Travel light,
live light,
spread the light,
Be the light. :candle:

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley

"Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world." ― Frank Warren

"We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us" - President Obama

"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."
― Audrey Hepburn

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress"― Fredrick Douglass

"I was thorough when I looked for you. And I feel justified lying in your arms. 'Cause I got here on my own terms and I have no question about some place I didn't look. And for me that makes all the difference." - Alyssa in Chasing Amy

"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss." - Benjamin Button