smile

 

“Everyone smiles in the same language.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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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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SLICES

 

“I am not interested in a slice of life,

what I want is a slice of the imagination.”

 

~ Carlos Fuentes ~

 

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THISTLES AND THORNS

 

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;

and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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NO ONE LISTENING

 

“It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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AS ANOTHER DAY DAWNS

 

“Another day, a different dream perhaps.”

 

~ Alice Liddell ~

 

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BETWEEN MY THORNS

 

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”

 

~ Marianne Moore ~

 

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TAPIS

 

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

 

~ Theodore Roethke ~

 

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BEWARE ULYSSES, BEWARE

 

“Is it the singer or the song…?”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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STRANGE SILICON AND CIVIL SOFTNESS

 

“Twas when I was a wee bit younger and I’d spend

me nights down at the pub with a few pints,

scribbling in little black notebooks,

sussing out the lads and lassies…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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BUILD A NEST

 

“Look at this tangle of thorns.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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DEATH IS A DANCER

 

“Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes.”

 

~ Debasish Mridha ~

 

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RHYMES WRUNG

 

“The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

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BRIDGE THIS SCHISM

 

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

but delicious in the years of maturity.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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TO BREATHE BETWEEN DEATHS

 

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

 

~ Mae West ~

 

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RIDDLES

 

“I am a man of few words, but many riddles.”

 

~ Frank Gorshin ~

 

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RIB DANCE

 

“Should I have brought earplugs?”

 

~ Kurt Nielsen ~

 

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WHAT WAS IT THEN

 

“I cannot sing the old songs,

or dream those dreams again.”

 

~ Charlotte Alington Barnard ~

 

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WHEN TIMES WERE TIMES

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

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PURE POETRY

 

“Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.”

 

~ Natalie Clifford Barney ~

 

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