For us, all that's left is kisses
tattered as the little bees
that die when they leave the hive.
Osip Mandelstam
Related
there are some poems
that we leave behind
some that leave us behind
while some ...
SANOBER KHAN ![]()
Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK ![]()
Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK ![]()
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
MARCUS AURELIUS ![]()
The Gentle Gardener
I'd like to leave but daffodils to mark my little way,
To leave ...
EDGAR A. GUEST ![]()
Warning signs that lover is bored:
1. Passionless kisses
2. Frequent sighing
3. Moved, l...
MATT GROENING ![]()
When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,...
EURIPIDES ![]()
what a shame we all became such fragile, broken things.
A memory remains just a tiny spark.
HAYLEY WILLIAMS ![]()
I can sense your love,
why leave me in darkness?
Beguile me for your amusement,
steal...
KAMAND KOJOURI ![]()
So he has no head'
'Thats usually what headless means'
'No head at all?'
'Your really...
DEREK LANDY ![]()
Love is for the birds.
Honey is for the bees.
And you, my special one.
Are the only o...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Everything is all right,
When you’re here,
When you’re right next to me,
When my ...
ELIZABETH BROOKS ![]()
A sound of laughter was heard-they turned sharply. Vera Claythorne was standing in the yard. She cri...
AGATHA CHRISTIE ![]()
Is that all souls are for? For when we die?"
"No. They're for living, too.
LAINI TAYLOR ![]()
In the beginning we were a group of nine.
Three are gone, dead.
There are six of us ...
PITTACUS LORE ![]()
Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die…
THOMAS HARDY ![]()
For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps,
Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think that's what we all want, in the end.
To know that we left footprints when we passed by,...
MIKE A. LANCASTER It's all part of my spirituality,
as the wind softly kisses my face,
and the world travel...
JESS "CHIEF" BRYNJULSON ![]()
My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.
OSIP MANDELSTAM ![]()
Where to start?
Everything cracks and shakes,
The air trembles with similes,
No one w...
OSIP MANDELSTAM ![]()
When Great Trees Fall
When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
li...
MAYA ANGELOU ![]()
It was the exact opposite
for me. At first all I
wanted was sex with her,
but soon I ...
ELLEN HOPKINS ![]()
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of
life which bears n...
MARCEL PROUST ![]()
Invade me now, my ruthless friend,
And make me cower in the dark.
Remind me that I'm all a...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE ![]()
That men, who might have tower'd in the van
Of all the congregated world, to fan
And winno...
JOHN KEATS When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
A...
SHERMAN ALEXIE ![]()
Don't go far off, not even for a day,
because I don't know how to say it - a day is long
a...
PABLO NERUDA ![]()
They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us ...
KAMAND KOJOURI ![]()
TRIAD:
Three
separate highways
intersect at a place
no reasonable person
ELLEN HOPKINS ![]()
when we were kids
laying around the lawn
on our
bellies
we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI kisses explode
when...
someone
believes in me
when my heart cries out ...
SANOBER KHAN ![]()
When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins,
And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie...
MADISON CAWEIN ![]()
...they come to us, these restless dead,
Shrouds woven from the words of men,
With trumpet...
MIRA GRANT No one is exempt
and everyone's pain has a different smell.
At night, when all the...
CRAIG RAINE ![]()
(the whole world is at the
throat of the world,
everybody feels angry,
short-changed,...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Like a handprint in cement
An indelible mark has been left
My identity has been bent
...
JUSTIN WETCH ![]()
Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run togeth...
PABLO NERUDA ![]()
If cooperation is the key, how come the ants and bees did not beat us to the nuclear bomb even thoug...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI Nothing can escape death.
Not even the Sun.
Not even the Earth.
Not even the unive...
HINA YU ![]()
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no re...
JOHN LENNON ![]()
I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a...
JOHN BURROUGHS ![]()
People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.
HARUKI MURAKAMI When the last leaf falls,
what will die within us?
SHENIZ JANMOHAMED ![]()
A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:
“Aren’...
PAULO COELHO With every strike of lightning
Comes a memory that lasts
Not a word is left unspoken
JONAS BROTHERS ![]()
Seven little crazy kids chopping up sticks;
One burnt her daddy up and then there were six.
MICHAEL THOMAS FORD ![]()
When we die we leave behind us all that we have and take with us all that we are.
UNKNOWN ![]()
All beasts are happy,
For, when they die,
Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements;
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ![]()
What is this thing you call substance abuse?
All I wanna do is forget and get loose.
Drin...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ ![]()
When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never judge someone
By the way he looks
Or a book by the way it's covered;
For ins...
STEPHEN COSGROVE ![]()
AUTUMNAL
Pale amber sunlight falls across
The reddening October trees,
That ...
ERNEST DOWSON Nothing touches your skin of sweat
(meltdown of oceanic kisses)
when the purple light
BEAR STEP ![]()
I like to prowl ordinary places.
I feel sorry for us all or glad for us
all
caught a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI ![]()
Everything I have become,
everything I will ever accomplish
cannot compare to my most
KAMAND KOJOURI Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!
Man is constantly build...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN There is a fable in the forest
Whispered by the branches, as they blow.
A tale about the t...
ERIN HANSON All beauteous things for which we live
By laws of time and space decay.
But oh, the very rea...
WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY the caress of each word becoming
one
with the page
t...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN ![]()
The More Loving One
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all ...
W.H. AUDEN ![]()
Orsino: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
M...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ![]()
DEMON MATH
What is JUST in a world
you've ripped in two
as if there could be
...
KAMI GARCIA ![]()
In the very end,
all we have left
to atone for
our faults
are words.
KAMAND KOJOURI ![]()
Steal not this book for fear of shame
For on it is the owners name
And when yo...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!
Man is constantly build...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN ![]()
I didn't leave because
I stopped loving you,
I left because the longer
I stayed th...
RUPI KAUR ![]()
There is only as much space, only as much time,
Only as much desire, only as many words,
DEJAN STOJANOVIC ![]()
We are all glorified motion sensors.
Some things only become visible to us when they unde...
VERA NAZARIAN ![]()
How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof,
Or fares, or one thing or another,
How...
VIKRAM SETH ![]()
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-...
WENDELL BERRY ![]()
Don't go looking for boys in the dark
They will say pretty things then
leave you with scar...
ANNA GODBERSEN ![]()
The Children's Hour
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning t...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ![]()
No Difference
Small as a peanut,
Big as a giant,
We're all the same size
W...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN ![]()
Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Sounds Is Love of All, the World
Sounds create soulful existence,
When the ...
JOHN SHELTON JONES ![]()
This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud
dissolve ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI ![]()
Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly.<...
LANGSTON HUGHES ![]()
The dead do not need
aspirin or
sorrow,
I suppose.
but they might need
rain...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sorry is the day, and full of lament, when the young have to guard themselves from being food for th...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU ![]()
Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
For who would live s...
JOHN GALSWORTHY When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming ba...
LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG ![]()
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion--
I have shuddered at...
JOHN KEATS ![]()
SEA OF LIFE
This is not the end, my friend.
Just as the ocean sings songs to infinit...
SUZY KASSEM The shadows. They never leave you. They keep dancing
around you a bit too loud in sunlight, and...
DIXY GANDHI ![]()
the greatest Americans
have not been born yet
they are waiting patiently
for the past...
SAUL WILLIAMS ![]()
Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Honey, are you being safe?'
'I wear my seat belt, yes.'
'Does this Rob Lovely wear a seat ...
LETA BLAKE There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down town...
THOMAS SHEPARD ![]()
They tell us the only way to move on
is to forget.
“Forgive,” they say.
Realise ...
KAMAND KOJOURI ![]()
I can't leave you," he says hoarsely.
"I can't leave you either," I say, shaking my head. "I ca...
CYNTHIA HAND ![]()
Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?
Fear is for the wi...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They all went to Bobbi and tried to reason
They told him because of the cold winter,
it w...
ELISE ICTEN ![]()
The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ![]()
They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using
their mouths f...
LAUREN KATE I aimed it -- not quite as far right as the ball went -- but you want to
shade it a little bit,...
JASON ELAM ![]()
[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]....
IAIN PEARS ![]()
If you want to save the humankind,
you should first take care of Nature.
It's the legacy ...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES ...you hold a poem
that functions half as personal
note and half as telescope
to the ...
KRISTEN HENDERSON ![]()
You are afraid to die?'
Yes, everyone is.'
But to die as lovers may - to die together, so ...
J. SHERIDAN LE FANU 
Worker bees can leave.
Worker bees can leave.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. 
The Gentle Gardener
Warning signs that lover is bored:
When good men die their goodness does not perish,
what a shame we all became such fragile, broken things.
I can sense your love,
So he has no head'
Love is for the birds.
A sound of laughter was heard-they turned sharply. Vera Claythorne was standing in the yard. She cri... 
Is that all souls are for? For when we die?" 
In the beginning we were a group of nine.
Teach me to live, that I may dread
For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps,
My turn shall also come:
Where to start?
When Great Trees Fall
It was the exact opposite
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of
Invade me now, my ruthless friend,
That men, who might have tower'd in the van
Don't go far off, not even for a day,
They want us to be afraid. 
TRIAD:
when we were kids
When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins,
...they come to us, these restless dead,
(the whole world is at the
Don't leave me, even for an hour, because 
If cooperation is the key, how come the ants and bees did not beat us to the nuclear bomb even thoug... 
Imagine there's no countries
I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a... 
People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die. 
A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:
Seven little crazy kids chopping up sticks;
When we die we leave behind us all that we have and take with us all that we are. 
All beasts are happy,
What is this thing you call substance abuse? 
When he shall die,
AUTUMNAL
The More Loving One
Orsino: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
DEMON MATH
In the very end, 
Steal not this book for fear of shame
I didn't leave because 
There is only as much space, only as much time, 
We are all glorified motion sensors.
How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof,
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
Don't go looking for boys in the dark
The Children's Hour
No Difference
Two halves have little choice but to join;
This is how I would die 
Hold fast to dreams
Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
SEA OF LIFE
the greatest Americans
Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to ... 
I can't leave you," he says hoarsely.
Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?
They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using
[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls].... 
If you want to save the humankind, 
You are afraid to die?'
My turn shall also come: