Browsing Quotes With Tag: poems (14)
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Above me, wind does its best
to blow leaves off
the aspen tree a month too soon.
No use wind. All you succeed
in doing is making music, the noise
of failure growing beautiful.Speaker: Bill HolmSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We who are
your closest friends
feel the time
has come to tell you
that every Thursday
we have been meeting,
as a group,
to devise ways
to keep you
in perpetual uncertainty
frustration
discontent and
torture
by neither loving you
as much as you want
nor cutting you adrift.
Your analyst is
in on it,
plus your boyfriend
and your ex-husband;
and we have pledged
to disappoint you
as long as you need us.
In announcing our
association
we realize we have
placed in your hands
a possible antidote
against uncertainty
indeed against ourselves.
But since our Thursday nights
have brought us
to a community
of purpose
rare in itself
with you as
the natural center,
we feel hopeful you
will continue to make unreasonable
demands for affection
if not as a consequence
of your disastrous personality
then for the good of the collective.Speaker: Phillip LopateSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 12:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sometimes hidden from me
in daily custom and in trust,
so that I live by you unaware
as by the beating of my heart,Suddenly you flare in my sight,
a wild rose blooming at the edge
of thicket, grace and light
where yesterday was only shade,and once again I am blessed, choosing
again what I chose before.Speaker: Wendell BerrySource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 12:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The height of great men reached and kept
Were not obtained by sudden flight;
But while their companions slept
Were toiling upward in the night.Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I will not play at tug-o-war,
I’d rather play at hug-o-war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs.
Where everyone giggles
And rolls on the rug.
Where everyone kisses,
And everyone grins,
And everyone cuddles,
And everyone wins.Speaker: Shel SilversteinPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He drew a circle that shut me out – Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the will to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!Speaker: Edwin MarkhamPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing…
Good timber does not grow with ease,
The stronger wind, the stronger trees.Speaker: Douglas MallochPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire.
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!Speaker: Rudyard KiplingPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was duty.
I acted, and behold –
Duty was joy.Speaker: TagorePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The shadow by my finger cast
Divides the future from the past:
Before it, sleeps the unborn hour,
In darkness, and beyond my power:
Behind its un-returning line,
The vanished hour, no longer thine:
One hour alone is in thy hands –
The now on which the shadow stands.Speaker: Henry Van DykePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives;
Whom none can love, whom none can thank,
Creation’s blot, creation’s blank.Speaker: Thomas GibbonsSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ed said
When man found the mirror
They began to lose their souls.
He point, of course, is that
They began to concern themselves
With their images rather than
Their selves.
Other men’s eyes are mirrors
But the most distorting kind
For, if you look to them, you can only see
Reflections of your reflections,
Your warpings of their warpings.Speaker: Stan HermanSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive (stamped on those lifeless things),
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.Speaker: Percy Bysshe ShelleySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Salutation to the Dawn
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore to this day!
Such is the salutation to the dawn.Speaker: KalidasaPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!