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That day, that day when I can gaze at the sea--both of us calm--and I, trusting, having poured my whole heart into my Life Work....when death--black waves!--no longer courts me and I can smile, constantly, at everything because, my bones, there will be so little of myself left to give it. ↗


— Juan Ramón Jiménez


#life-work #nature-writing #poetry #death

The tags' chain stirs with the wind; and I sleep Paid, dead, and a soldier. Who fights for his own life Loses, loses: I have killed for my world, and am free. ↗


— Randall Jarrell


#poetry #death

When I shut my eyes on this world I'll finally have peace. ↗


— Kevin Walker


#life #peace #poetry #death

When he came back, I hid my face within my hands. He said: "Fear nothing. Who has seen our kiss? --Who saw us? The night and the moon." "And the stars and the first flush of dawn. The moon has seen its visage in the lake, and told it to the water 'neath the willows. The water told it to the rower's oar. "And the oar has told it to the boat, and the boat has passed the secret to the fisher. Alas! alas! if that were only all! But the fisher told the secret to a woman. "The fisher told the secret to a woman: my father and my mother and my sisters, and all of Hellas now shall know the tale. ↗


— Pierre Louÿs


#lovers #poetry #songs-of-bilitis #tryst #love

One cannot make bargains for blisses Or catch them like fishes in nets And sometimes the things that life misses Help more than the things that it gets. ↗


— Alice Carey


#love #poetry #life

It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God. ↗


— Hafiz


#life-lessons #love #master-poet #poetry #life

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many. ↗


— Thomas Lux


#poetry #life

An empty bottle has life. ↗


— Santosh Kalwar


#life

Candle In the Wind Author: Bernie Tauplin Goodbye Norma Jeane. Though I never knew you at all. You had the grace to hold yourself While those around you crawled. And they crawled out of the woodwork, And they whispered into your brain, They set you on the treadmill And they made you change your name. And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind, Never knowing who to cling to When the rain set in. And I would have liked to have known you But I was just a kid, Your candle burned out long before Your legend ever did. Loneliness was tough. The toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar And pain was the price you paid. Even when you died The press still hounded you- All the paper had to say Was that Marilyn was found in the nude. Goodbye Norma Jeane. Though I never knew you at all. You had the grace to hold yourself While those around you crawled. Goodbye Norma Jeane. From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual, More than just our Marilyn Monroe. ↗


— Elton John


#elton-john #lyrics-in-a-song #marilyn-monroe #norma-jeane #poetry

Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world. ↗


— Leza Lowitz


#poetry #yoga #yoga






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