diving for pearls

 

“The drowning man is not troubled by the rain.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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all this paradise

 

“Think of what a paradise this world would be

if men were kind and wise.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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a very nice pair

 

“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.”

 

~ Mark Antony ~

 

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rainbows raining down

 

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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might have made a difference

 

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

 

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

 

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SING

 

“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody,

it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.”

 

~ Janis Joplin ~

 

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ALWAYS EVENING

 

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,

but delicious in the years of maturity.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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NEVER SAW THE TEARS

 

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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RUTHSONG

 

“i wrote this when i was twenty-one for a very talented

lovely lady cellist who graced my life briefly…”

 

~ erik geoffrey barth a.k.a. nightpoet ~

 

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SPANISH JUNE

 

“Cocaine’s for horses, not for men,

they tell me it’ll kill me but they don’t say when,

cocaine run all ’round my brain…”

 

~ Traditional ~

 

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PASSION PLAY

 

“I shape beauty to human mouths,

give wings to insight.

I make naked the word.”

 

~ The Dialogue of the Two Sages ~

 

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HOLY FOOL

 

“It seems to me that I have always existed

and that I possess memories

that date back to the Pharaohs.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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IF WALLS COULD TALK

 

“Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”

 

~ Eugene O’Neill ~

 

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RAINBOWS RAINING DOWN

 

“Poetry is a phantom script

telling how rainbows are made

and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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LA RÉFLEXION À L’AUBE

 

“The mirror is a worthless invention.

The only way to truly see yourself

is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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THE WALLS EVEN HAVE EYES

 

“That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.”

 

~ Geoffrey Chaucer ~

 

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A VERY NICE PAIR

 

“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.”

 

~ Mark Antony ~

 

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DUSTY ANCIENT YELLOW ROSES

 

“Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.”

 

~ Edmund Spenser ~

 

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ALL THIS PARADISE

 

“An intelligent hell would be better

than a stupid paradise.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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