Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Through a trick lighting technique the skyline was made and faded with the care of a poi... KRISTEN HENDERSON Wisdom and spirit of the Universe! Thou soul is the eternity of thought! That giv'st to form... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Intoxicate me with the beauty and breath of your soul. Leave such imprints on my heart MELODY LEE HIPPOLYTA But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigured... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL do you dare to step in- to the vulnerable black, stripped to the soul with human blindnes... BETH MOREY THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINS Laugh, I tell you And you will turn back The ... SUZY KASSEM I believe in love at first sight but I will always believe that the people we l... TYLER KNOTT GREGSON WHAT IS TRUTH? Truth is not a thing Or a concept. It is as multidimensional SUZY KASSEM ...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, ... BARBARA BLATNER I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything y... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Suicide in the trenches: I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty jo... SIEGFRIED SASSOON You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don't e... RAINER MARIA RILKE You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope ... GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Missing you, I missed a part of me I shared with you that’s now gone. M... KAMAND KOJOURI I am filled time and again with a heart-aching wonder when I think of the fire... SANOBER KHAN Sour Milk You can't make it turn sweet again. Once it was an innocen... DIANE WAKOSKI Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life... URSULA K. LE GUIN over the decades her books became such a part of her that the ink AMANDA LOVELACE The Rich arrived in pairs And also in Rolls Royces; They talked of their affairs In loud an... HILAIRE BELLOC Looking for Your Face From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your fac... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Sermon of the Mounts Matthew 5 AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO THE ... SWAMI DHYAN GITEN Often in relationships we have to move the next mile, leaving behind the experiences of th... WORDIONS Does God know the number of kisses before we fall in love? Yesterday, I was nobody KAMAND KOJOURI And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY When I look up at Heaven, I see the souls of those who died Beaming down at me, Wanti... SUZY KASSEM I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Nam... MADELEINE L'ENGLE as architect of choosing... choose. to. live. awakened. entirely. wholly. wildl... LASHAUN MIDDLEBROOKS COLLIER I cannot promise very much. I give you the images I know. Lie still with me and watch. W... ANNE SEXTON Silence It has a sound, a fullness. It's heavy with sigh of tree, and space bet... ANGELA LONG Dear Human: You've got it all wrong. You didn't come here to master unconditional lo... COURTNEY A. WALSH alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in the... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; S... JOHN GILLISPIE MAGEE, JR. The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the... PABLO NERUDA Invisible She scanned through the magazine for girls who looked like her with d... IJEOMA UMEBINYUO Ill see you forever For you are a part of me And I myself a part of thee Inseparable i... DAVID SEVERY You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the w... KAHLIL GIBRAN So the earth is shaking Here the word's faking As there's no time for lies. Kiss a... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES CALL YOURSELF Look deep in the mirror And say: 'I LOVE YOU' And immediately SUZY KASSEM Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning ... MARY OLIVER THE NAKED HEART From womb to tomb, There came and went - Only you. Poor or... SUZY KASSEM By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And conscio... ROBERT CHARLES WILSON As you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that your journey be a long one, filled wit... BARRY B. POWELL All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey; This Fleckn... JOHN DRYDEN The Day is Done The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Nig... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The gospel brings tidings, glad tidings indeed, To mourners in Zion, who want to be freed, WILLIAM GADSBY THE NAKED HEART From womb to tomb, There came and went - Only you. P... SUZY KASSEM Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like... JOHN GREEN THE THREE LAWS OF ALL You are never to worship a living soul, Except for three entit... SUZY KASSEM during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores CHARLES BUKOWSKI Nachkland - Roland Leighton Down the long white road we walked together Down between... ROLAND LEIGHTON Lark’s Song That child who from Diana’s thought is born A huntress swift, who do... D. ALEXANDER NEILL You are made out of comets and stars. Do not surround yourself with those<... NOOR SHIRAZIE For all these stars, nothing is new. They’ve seen all kinds of wars and miracles, t... KAMAND KOJOURI The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI DADDY You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived l... SYLVIA PLATH Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker do you remember when the earth was just a bab... MARCUS AMAKER My friend once told me she liked this guy because of his hands And I found it absurd that ... CAROL SHLYAKHOVA I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: that the deity who kills... LOUISE PENNY CIRCLES OF LIFE Everything Turns, Rotates, Spins, Circles, Loops... SUZY KASSEM I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; <... PABLO NERUDA So word by word, and line by line, The dead man touch'd me from the past, And all at once ... ALFRED TENNYSON the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, CHARLES BUKOWSKI Little sister don't you worry about a thing today Take the heat from the sun Little sister... U2 The secret tugs at my sleeve. A child looking for attention. It is not a big secret. ... ADELHEID MANEFELDT She was—of course—perfectly normal— quiet and polite and reasonably intelligent... TAH THE TRICKSTER Kindness Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, f... NAOMI SHIHAB NYE At evening when the lamp is lit, The tired Human People sit And doze, or turn with solemn ... OLIVER HERFORD Your flag and my flag,
And how it flies to-day
In your land and my land
And half a wo... WILBUR D. NESBIT ON THE DAY I DIE On the day I die, when I'm being carried toward the grave, don't we... RUMI In a feast of fame and talks, Scandal flashing, raising tongue and brows. In a blast of bo... ANGELICA HOPES Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of ... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Girl Without Hands Walking through the ruins on your way to work that do not lo... MARGARET ATWOOD O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue, with peace you force all the restless work to en... MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI -Desiderata- Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may... MAX EHRMANN Storm Warnings The glass has been falling all the afternoon, And knowing better tha... ADRIENNE RICH There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;... T.S. ELIOT She had the prettiest eyes & prettiest smile with Wounds on her heart and bruis... TANYA GAMBHIR We were talking about the space between us all And the people who hide themselves behind a wall... GEORGE HARRISON All are equal Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And... JAMES SHIRLEY You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In the spring of life, in the flower of youth, Everything is bright and new. In the summer of... C.A. SCHLEA Say I Am You I am dust particles in sunlight. I am the round sun. To the ... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Hello," Life says, "Remember me? We started out together here When you were just a bundle<... JACOB NORDBY Lay down Your tired & weary head my friend. We have wept too long Night is fallin... JOSé N. HARRIS I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. Bu... KAMAND KOJOURI (...) ha! what is hope? a butterfly in a box of demons, and nothing escapes the dark MOONSHINE NOIRE Approaching the Start of Civil Exams Perhaps I was once a young Chinese scholar appr... JIM CHAPSON Glossa Time goes by, time comes along, All is old and all is new; What is righ... MIHAI EMINESCU While walking in a toy store The day before today, I overheard a Crayon Box With many thin... ANON. the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like eyes in t... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and... LANGDON SMITH Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen ... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life MEGAN MCCAFFERTY Turn to the wind, I dare you For time is but a space that is captured Live in fear or peac... F.N.COLLIER Here is a story that’s stranger than strange. Before we begin you may want to arrange: ... ROBERT PAUL WESTON It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secre... STEVIE SMITH
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