Flowers of war



your hands have known too many passengers
held to many things
but you still bloom with ancient hieroglyphics
that light the now hours of this sunset veil
and I promise to always shelter you
from the train wrecks
and help you count the moments
that don’t leave bruises on your heart
and for the ones that do I swear
I will knit away at them to keep you protected
because flowers of war
are beautiful when grown together

-- O.Jardine

(Poem excerpt from my book "Of Bird and Wire")

Note to self. . .
 

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life; William Morris

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. --Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear."
EDMOND ROSTAND, CYRANO de BERGERAC-1897

Some of the greater things in life are unseen thats why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream...

No - I did not take a nap -
The nap - took - me
off the bed and out the window
far beyond the sea,
to a land where sleepy heads
read only comic books
and lock their naps in iron safes
so that they can't get took.
...
Shel Silverstein

“I love when you look at someone with a smile on your face, and they break
into a smile back at you, not because they know why you’re smiling, but
because you’re happy. And that’s enough to make them happy.”
-e.k.

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

Adulthood !
 

Heres my resignation from adulthood, from now on all my decisions will be made by rock, paper, scissors and all my arguments settled by sticking my tongue out at the other person ! :p

Daisy :bouquet:

While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
-Sam Harris

"This is a great irony — people who have every reason to be content seldom are. Though happiness is their aim, it seems always out of reach. I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when."
-Phillip Gulley - Porch Talk

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.

-W.S. Merwin

"What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself."
— Eckhart Tolle

"The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow,
but you can't have one without the other."
— Andre Dubus III (House of Sand and Fog)

“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you
laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who would never take
advantage of you. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping
in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.”
~Unknown

“Maybe I'm dreaming you.
Maybe you're dreaming me;
maybe we only exist in each other's dreams
and every morning when we wake up
we forget all about each other.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness;
the freedom of loneliness and the safety
from being understood,
for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
― Kahlil Gibran

You happened out the back door
Laying bare this need
you opened up this vessel
And gathered all the quivers
That never got to fly


-Dustin Tebutt (The Breach)

“If we move too fast, we’ll break things. If we move too slow, we’ll miss things.
And if we don’t move at all, we won’t see things for how beautiful they truly
are.”
-r.m. drake

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. --Rabindranath Tagore

“Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy.
Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the
words ‘forever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a
small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know
they don’t like doing it.”
— Marian Keyes