rhymes wrung

 

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

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

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gray

 

“A gray day provides the best light.”

 

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

 

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dark nuances dance

 

“It is always a poet’s winter.”

 

~ Kate Braverman ~

 

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poppies

 

“Through the dancing poppies stole

    a breeze most softly lulling to my soul…”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

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girl with a rose

 

“Love is like a rose. When pressed between

two lifetimes, it will last forever.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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distance

 

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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a numbness

 

“How nice – to feel nothing,

and still get full credit for being alive.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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trick of the tongue

 

“The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.”

 

~ Algernon Charles Swinburne ~

 

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carrots and cake

 

“Life, people learned, was not easy.

Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.”

 

~ Tao Lin ~

 

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the last rose of summer

 

“What a lovely thing a rose is!”

 

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

 

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prophecy

 

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

 

~ Charles Lamb ~

 

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trees talk

 

“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

That we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Kahlil Gibran ~

 

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cobweb strange

 

“And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men,

and outcasts always mourn.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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insignificant

 

“Life is a great tapestry.

The individual is only an insignificant thread

in an immense and miraculous pattern.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Virginia Beach, Virginia in November 2004.

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the stolen years

 

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

 

~ Christopher Paolini ~

 

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dreams fading

 

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who

can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees

the dawn before the rest of the world.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2009.

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THE DECEMBER DREAM

 

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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FOUR BEFORE TWELVE

 

“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today.”

 

~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~

 

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SOOTHE A SAVAGE BREAST

 

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,

To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

 

~ William Congreve ~

 

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LAST LEAF

 

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,

watches beside me in this windy place.”

 

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

 

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