Poem & Quotes

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”


C.S.Lewis
 
Gross warning
Poem for those with a cold


Snot
Eat it while its hot
Dribbling down the throat
Suck it up until you bloat
better than pizza with pineapple
Much easier to grapple
warm and slimey
eat and sing Blimey
for breakfast lunch dinner and afternoon tea
Just eat it while its hot
Beautiful dripping snot
 
It can be born anywhere
Even where you do not expect
Where you would not have said
Where you would not have looked

It can grow from nothing
And blossom in a second
A single glance is all it takes
To understand you all the way

It can invade the thoughts,
go straight to the heart.
leave you sitting on the stairs,
Leave you speechless
Love has a thousand stems
Love has only a flower

It can grow alone
And vanish like nothing
Because nothing holds it
Or binds it to you forever

It can grow in lands
Where the sun doesn’t shine,
Open the fist of a hand,
Change the meaning of the words

Love has no meaning,
Love does not have a name,
Love wets the eyes,
Love warms the heart,
Love shivers,
Love has no reason

It’s so great that it seems indefinite,
to leave you breathless
His arm will lead you away from the past forever
My love,
is you
My love,
You are …

Love has no meaning,
Love does not have a name,
Love is not wrong,
Love has no reason,
Love shivers,
Love warms the heart

It can make you better
And change you slowly
It gives you everything you want
It does not ask for anything in return
It can arise from a gesture,
From the hint of a smile
From a greeting,
By an exchange,
From a shared location

Love has no meaning
Love does not have a name
Love is in the eye
Love warms the heart
Love shivers
Love has no reason

Love has no meaning
Love does not have a name
Love goes in the eyes
Love warms the heart
Love beats teeth
Love has no reason

My love is you
My love …
You are …

My love is you …
My love … you.
 
Her reach falls short and yet she reaches
to gasp that which she cannot hold
yearning for those stardust skies
and seeking for those suns of gold.

She knows in truth it can't be done
and yet she won't give up her quest
she runs a race that can't be won
pursues her goal with a dream she cleaves.

Joyful to the stars she flees
to land on shores she'll never see
believing what she cannot see
and seeing all that she believes.

She basks in warmth from foreign suns
and breathes air with scents of night
caresses silver sands at dawn
and bathes in rivers flowing brightly.

Now, who can tell what may yet be
impossible for you to see?

...what dream ?...what goal ?...what passion ?

...Yet first you must be a dreamer.
 
"There are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse than
too late."


"Ham on Rye: A Novel" by C.Bukowski
 
You know what dad called me when I was growing up? "Five ninety-eight." That's what all chemicals in the human body would be worth if you bottled them raw and sold them.
He told me that was all I'd ever be worth unless I worked every day to
improve myself. "Five ninety-eight."

Screenwriter Tom Schulman
 
Night

It's all right,
Unless you're either lonely
or under attack.
That strange effortful
Repositioning of yourself.
Laundry,shopping,hours,the telephone
Unless misinformed
Only ever ringing for you,
if it ever does.
The night-yours to decide
Among drink,or books or lying there.
On your back, or curled up.
An embarrassment of poverty.

Michael Hofmann
 
It is hard to not feel broken when it is always quiet enough to hear your pieces rattle.

-Tyler Knott Gregson-
 

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”​

Thomas Edison
 
metaphors for pain

i feel
the bright, harsh flames
upon my skin

they burn
continuously
with fiery fierceness

they lick
their ever changing colours
on to my body

i scream

but no one hears me
 
"You meet saints everywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society"
-Kurt Vonnegut
 
"Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows"

— Troilus and Cressida, Act 2 Scene 1, Lines 42-43
 
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