August 2012
12 posts
“One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those...”
– Piers Anthony
“I don’t have a goal, because existence has no goal. It simply is,...”
– Osho
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. ...”
– Wayne Dyer
“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad...”
– Victoria Holt
“One of the hardest decisions you’ll ever face in life is choosing whether...”
– Unknown
“As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which...”
– Dalai Lama
“Trust the one who can see these three things in you: sorrow behind your smile,...”
– Unknown
“Love is the beginning and it is the end. And when love was born we discovered...”
– Gigi Galluzzo
“It is said that each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of...”
– Paulo Coelho
“The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am...”
– Marjane Satrapi, Iranian Graphic Novelist
“to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything...”
– Unknown
“Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to...”
– Mary Oliver
“…Thus, by nature’s own decree,
The hard and the strong are...”
– The I-Ching
“Dear Human:
You’ve got it alllll wrong. You didn’t come here to...”
– Courtney A. Walsh
July 2012
7 posts
“For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to...”
– Mary Oliver
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
– Ray Bradbury
“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely...”
– Isak Dineson
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Every woman deserves a man that can make her forget her heart was ever broken.”
– Unknown
February 2012
24 posts
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“What’s terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you...”
– Doris Lessing
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There Are No More Poems
There are no more poems between the void and the flood. No vessel to contain the raining in this blood. No more salt upon the wounds. . Cauterize me. . Span together the plenitude of faithless lacking triumphs. No scars. There are no songs, no whispers in the overture, no cadence or crescendo to hollow out this failure. . So, darling, fill me. But know that there is nothing: No girl, no...
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“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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Untitled
Waking The breath catches at the bottom of the throat, . ……………………..pulling back into the belly. . Laying beneath the warmth lost feeling in December: . ……………………..the intention of being. . Gasping inhales reclaim the lost remains unfound . air does not go in sighs do not come out. . ...
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“Though lovers be lost, love shall not.”
– Dylan Thomas (via artreture)
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“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet”
– Plato (via perceelee)
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“All your dreams come true, if you have the courage to pursue them.”
– Walt Disney
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“Only love can be divided endlessly, and still not diminish.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“saboten wa
asa no hikari ni
shizuka desu
.
Translation:
the cacti
in the...”
– my friend Stefan
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“Each human being is entirely unique, and each is the greatest work of art ever...”
– Thomas Bernhard
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“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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“Yet everything is perfect,
Because it is empty,
Because it is perfect
with...”
– Jack Kerouac (excerpt from a chorus poem)
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The Crows
They call me into night . A flurry of obsidian, dark shine inside a shapeless moon… . They stay where words end. . Call of an empty November that seals the marrow of my bones in bitter morning. Creak upon my movements The tinman holds herself . away. . Still, before the winter comes: soft warnings in the graying in the tides. This haven of the crows, the closing of the skies. . And snow...
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Recycled Karma Press - Chapbook 2013
Recycled Karma Press has invited me to submit a chapbook for their 2013 publication. I’m amped and a little overwhelmed. I have a body of work that I could put together or I can start a whole new set. I’m not sure which route I’m going to take yet. But I am so excited.
You can find Recycled Karma Press on Facebook. The main website seems to be down. I will post it...
January 2012
20 posts
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“What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is...”
– Sal Paradise in On the Road, Jack Kerouac
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“They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as...”
– Sal Paradise in On the Road, Jack Kerouac
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“Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Poisonous Apples
I know nothing. . A dull gnawing and throbbing ambivalence of dreams: . You take my hands . and feed me poisonous apples. . I lie limp and languid in your charms. . Train song echoing, two A.M. A peahen’s cry: the coyote tears her From her young: . Sounds of night, far below . a country’s harvest moon. . Wind’s blow turns to rain. . A sun’s shadows dissipated: gray...
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“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with...”
– Mary Anne Radmacher
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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to...”
– Viktor E. Frankl 