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As for life,
A Litany for Survival
if, in the beginning, there were so few people on the face of the earth, and now there are so many, ... 
There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.
BEWARE OF THOSE
The Genius Of The Crowd
We call a story about love 
One of the greatest gifts 
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
We are faithful as long as we love, but you
I am not the first person you loved.
There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving mother
It was many and many a year ago,
The Clock on the Morning Lenape Building
. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us.... 
Life is eternal, love is immortal and death is only a horizon.
We, unaccustomed to courage
For those who are not frightened by the solitude, everything will have a different taste.
there is a loneliness in this world so great
The thought manifests as the word;
We were talking about the space between us all
If we were not so single-minded
Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
Nostalgia"
...But although the rules are vague
A love poem about the most invisible woman:
I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relationships happen.
You shall love your neighbour
Child, child, love while you can 
The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) 
When I am with you, we stay up all night.
(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as... 
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz, 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
Some day we will try
No Difference
There's folly in her stride
...as we are endowed. ...with rhetorics. ...none will deny. 
So you want to know all about me. Who
THE WEATHER OF LOVE
Toys tossed on the floor 
1) I love you not for whom you are,
This poem is very long
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
Pale were your looks; and the rose in your tresses
And who are you, the proud Lord said
Arab children,
Sonnet XVII
I WANT her though, to take the same from me.
You who never arrived 
But who are we, where do we come from
Love is . . . Being happy for the other person when they are happy, Being sad for the person when th... 
There's something about you, 
who knows if the moon's
On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business.
We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received
We are
Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how ... 
Atheism is having a heyday in the born-again United States. 
There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough. 