Poetry

lessons in the half light

 

“We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust…”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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moonchild

 

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

 

~ A.J. Lawless ~

 

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the ambience that was she

 

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

000 the ambience that was she

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the tenebrosity of dream

 

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

 

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

 

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the reluctant prince

 

“Sleeping Beauty, who said to Prince Charming,
are you sure all we did was kiss?”

 

~ Red Buttons ~

 

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halcyon

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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and yet

 

“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”

 

~ Paulo Coelho ~

 

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the story of our lives

 

“You see things and you say, ‘Why?’
But I dream things and I say, ‘Why not?’ ”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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like making love

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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butterfly days

 

“To everything there is a season…”

 

~ Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 ~

 

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pépier

 

“God loved the birds and invented trees.
Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

 

~ Jacques Deval ~

 

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awakening

 

“Without change, something sleeps inside us,
and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

 

~ Frank Herbert ~

 

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the celestial laundry line

 

“That which can be asserted without evidence,
can be dismissed without evidence.”

 

~ Christopher Hitchens ~

 

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never enough time

 

“There is not enough time for anything, ever.”

 

~ Hilton Als ~

 

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primordial vagabond notes

 

“It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.”

 

~ Miles Davis ~

 

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a gravity of language

 

“Words, too, have genuine substance –
mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

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yawns back at me in yellow

 

“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past,
I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.”
 

~ Bob Dylan ~

 

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words like clay

 

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.”

 

~ Wisława Szymborska ~

 

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gribbles

 

“Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:
Dulce est desipere in loco.”
“Mingle a little folly with your wisdom;
a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.”

 

~ Horace ~

 

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the cosmic lie of reason

 

“…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.”

 

~ Mark Nepo ~

 

000 the cosmic lie of reason

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