Terri Guillemets Archives — 2006
This is the archive of my publicly published writing from 2006 — the good, the bad, the active and the retired. Some entries were originally untitled with a title added later, and some were first published under other pen names. Much of this was written as filler for The Quote Garden, as well as embarrassingly awful honeypots to track large-scale content pirates who were plaguing me at the time. Problem is, a lot of this gimcrack is what quickly became most popular. Shrug.
—tg
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The year is 2006. The world has changed in about 364 significant ways since you started reading this sentence.
DATE: 2006 Jan 1
winter and spring overlap at the seams—
chilly breezes and warm green dreams!
DATE: 2006 Mar 1
Our bodies let go when it's time to let go — it's called death. We ought to let go of the little burdensome things each day — that's called living.
TITLE: Anew
DATE: 2006 Oct 11
It is of course possible to dance a prayer.
TITLE: Praying hands & feet
DATE: 2006 Dec 31
If you keep a sunny attitude, you will glow like a rainbow when life gets stormy.
TITLE: Inner light
DATE: 2006 Sep 7
Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips.
TITLE: Meant-to's
DATE: 2006 Dec 1
You can never worry your way to enlightenment.
TITLE: wørrier
DATE: 2006 Oct 21
Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere, in opposite directions.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 2006 Jan 14
Don't let the past steal your present.
DATE: 2006 Oct 12
An author tap dances on typewriter keys.
DATE: 2006 Feb 9
Author: a dancer of typewriter keys.
TITLE: Tap dance
DATE: 2006 Feb 9
NOTES: revised
Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.
TITLE: Immeasurable
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Autumn birds speak cheerful poetry from their berry-stained beaks.
TITLE: Elderberry prime
DATE: 2006 Sep 25
Never stop pedaling to power your dreams.
DATE: 2006 Sep 7
sunrise glows in carpe-diem pink
aflame with marbled-gold moments
TITLE: Fast rising east
DATE: 2006 Sep 4
Three A.M. is when
all the quiet things
become loud —
the drip in the sink,
that clock on the wall,
our hearts, our minds.
TITLE: Tempus nunquam dormit
DATE: 2006 Feb 28
Let courage break through the cracks in your fear.
TITLE: Breakthrough
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
Taste just a sliver of courage and it's hard to go back to fear.
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
Reading in bed is a gateway drug to writing in bed.
DATE: 2006 Aug 25
LIFE
is an artist insane
painting his way
with the world...
DATE: 2006 Nov 4
In the dark, glitter is nothing but sand.
TITLE: Lackluster
DATE: 2006 Oct 14
Dawn spreads her wispy pink angel wings over the morning.
TITLE: Good morning!
DATE: 2006 Sep 8
Love isn't just blind
but also stupid —
lobotomy by arrow
bullseye, Dr Cupid!
TITLE: Winsome, losesome
DATE: 2006 Jan 6
Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.
DATE: 2006 Sep 8
Poetry is the dancing skeleton of bare-bones prose.
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
all my poems are starts
they begin but never end
yet do they abandon me
or do i abandon them?
TITLE: Fragmental
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other.
TITLE:Overdoing it
DATE: 2006 Nov 2
A maltreated body will cry out in symptoms.
A neglected body will have its revenge.
TITLE: Symptomatic
DATE: 2006 Jan 4
Night
— the quiet of solitude
— the silence of loneliness
DATE: 2006 Mar 31
Age is like the latest version of a software — it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the previous version had.
TITLE: Deprecated
DATE: 2006 Feb 2
NOTES: revised
When I'm out and about, people are annoying idiots. When I'm home alone, all mankind is loving and good.
TITLE: Humanity in roads
DATE: 2006 Oct 16
does time ever get
so old it aches?
doesn't it ever want
to take a break?
TITLE: Tireless
DATE: 2006 Oct 1
Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.
DATE: 2006 Nov 5
A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden.
DATE: 2006 Jan 22
Spring is a lively swing towards summer
Summer is a hot salsa towards autumn
Autumn is an elegant ballet towards winter
Winter is a slow waltz towards spring
TITLE: Stages
DATE: 2006 Jun 15
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
TITLE: Old soil, new green
DATE: 2006 Jul 12
If you never fall, how can you elevate yourself?
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
Your most important job today is breathing.
DATE: 2006 Oct 1
Stress is the trash of modern life — we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
TITLE: Hazardous waste
DATE: 2006 Jul 7
Let your fear dance with courage — and let courage lead.
TITLE: Duet
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
Poetry is an inky soulprint.
DATE: 2006 Oct 17
Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life's affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion — of fun, love, or something that will outlast you — so that the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions.
DATE: 2006 Oct 20
The heart breathes in beats.
TITLE: Exhale and listen
DATE: 2006 Jan 1
Breathe, thank, pray, rise, stretch, move, live!
TITLE: Morning routine
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
Reducing stress is all about priorities, attitude, discipline, and willingnessto let go.
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
Junk mail, junk food, our society is full of junk living, period.
DATE: 2006 Jun 11
Much poetry happens in the silence of 3 am.
DATE: 2006 Feb 3
Don't fall prey to the illusion that duty is only to others — you have just as much a duty to care for yourself.
DATE: 2006 May 5
Sometimes what we believe as coincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angelbooby trap.
DATE: 2006 Feb 4
TITLE: Wingèd workaholic
DATE: 2006 Oct 1
Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie®.
DATE: 2006 Oct 8
NOTES: Don't get me wrong — I'm not knocking a good dose of junk food once in a while. A pair ofDing Dongs® is enough to make better any bad day!
Coffee makes grisly mornings bearable.
DATE: 2006 Sep 8
sunset ablaze in carpe-diem pink
fleeting moments of glowing gold
feathered in hourglass-sands gray
with the lucent glimmer of infinity—
and thus the blissful evening sky
exhales gently the passing day
and lights up in its elation that
the world has made it through
to relive night's starry bouquet
DATE: 2006 Sep 4
Bedtime stories are a doorway to dreams.
DATE: 2006 Aug 25
Good manners and graciousness pave the way for future favors. Bad manners crumble the road.
DATE: 2006 Feb 3
Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty — resistance makes it ugly.
DATE: 2006 Dec 31
Nothing is sad on a beautiful morning save to look down and realize you just had the last sip of coffee and the mug sits indifferently empty.
DATE: 2006 Feb 3
Too much coffee! —
the caffeine starts muttering
my mind goes stumbling
my jitters go jiggy
DATE: 2006 Jan 6
Coffee, and I'm a warrior
Tea, a philosopher
Wine, a lover
Water, a napper
DATE: 2006 Mar 16
summer leaks into autumn
autumn leafs into winter
winter leans into spring
spring leaps into summer
TITLE: The cycle
DATE: 2006 Aug 20
This weary ol' workhorse is a unicorn, my friend.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Arteries are the body's thundering poetry.
DATE: 2006 May 6
If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, perhaps your soul has never been in bloom.
DATE: 2006 Mar 4
the ink of timeless books
transmutes in tinge and shade
from one century to another
but classic words never fade
DATE: 2006 May 7
NOTES: revised
Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do.
DATE: 2006 May 30
Our biochemistry bolts and revolts at modern life.
DATE: 2006 Oct 27
Dreams are nocturnal flowers, blooming when the sun has strayed far enough that we can see clearly.
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
A nightmare is only a dream that hits turbulence.
DATE: 2006 Mar 26
If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched.
DATE: 2006 Jun 15
There are lots of opport*nities o*t there. And yo* know what's missing.
DATE: 2006 Jun 17
Visualize your long-term goals to paint your short-term actions on the canvas of now.
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
Hatred is a blindman
Seeing only darkness
DATE: 2006 Jul 19
Addiction has a more powerful pull than just about anything else on earth.
DATE: 2006 Oct 28
I pet her and she pays me back in purrs.
DATE: 2006 Oct 29
Each season of adventure reality television gets more challenging. I'm waiting for a Survivor: Phoenix in July edition.
TITLE: Desert, ay, land
DATE: 2006 Jul 1
Renew your passions daily.
DATE: 2006 Jun 15
When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light.
DATE: 2006 Mar 28
May love touch every brutal soldier and every uncherished heart.
TITLE: May love
DATE: 2006 Jul 1
Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.
DATE: 2006 May 8
Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself picking up the extra load.
DATE: 2006 May 8
We must weed our own minds as we would weed our gardens — of overgrown fears, strangling emotions, noxious thoughts, leeching habits, and poisonous beliefs.
DATE: 2006 May 30
Your writing chamber isn't the office or the study — it's your heart.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
My constant bedtime prayer of gratitude: We are all survivors.
DATE: 2006 Dec 13
The heart and the gut are siblings.
DATE: 2006 Oct 22
Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.
DATE: 2006 Nov 19
Day is a solar cathedral, night a starry sanctuary.
DATE: 2006 Jul 7
Being human in our modern civilization is being forced into a boxing ring with Nature. And we're bloodied every time.
DATE: 2006 Jul 6
Plants —
light and life
grown green
DATE: 2006 Jul 7
If you can't get quiet enough to hear yourself, your life is too loud.
TITLE: Internal listening
DATE: 2006 Oct 22
Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer.
DATE: 2006 Dec 17
An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.
DATE: 2006 Nov 12
When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas.
DATE: 2006 Nov 12
Artists talk to themselves on canvas, mumbling scattered colors of emotion.
DATE: 2006 Nov 12
Soul colors the artist so that the artist can color the canvas.
DATE: 2006 Nov 12
A man and his art are like a fool and his king.
DATE: 2006 Nov 12
Some days my prayer is a rainfall of tears, other days the sunshine of joy, and sometimes it's a sheltering umbrella — but no matter what I'm weathering in my life, my prayer is first and always the infinite horizon of gratitude.
DATE: 2006 Dec 17
before gluing back together
a broken soul, first be certain
you don't want to rearrange
the pieces into a new design
stronger and more beautiful
DATE: 2006 Dec 15
Soldiers in the war of poetry
Bleed silky rose petals and glittering thorns
And leave behind beautiful inked destruction—
Embattled souls wounded, and healed.
TITLE: Dyed
DATE: 2006 Jul 2
A poet rips his flesh on the thorn of language and bleeds raw ink onto paper petals.
DATE: 2006 Jul 2
Age swallows our childhood.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
AGE: thirty-two
Does age poison us, or do we poison age?
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
A cat is an adorable violation of the laws of physics.
DATE: 2006 Jun 3
Seeds of joy survive
even buried in sadness
and bloom renewed
in flowers of happiness
TITLE: Revival
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
I hide myself in the quiet white of Winter and nestle in her comforting folds of cold oblivion.
DATE: 2006 Dec 17
A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested.
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
Your hypocrisy is invading my personal space.
DATE: 2006 Jun 29
Let the dragon in your soul be the keeper of your dreams — and breathe fire on all those who dare to tread, including your own demons and laziness.
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
My dreams have a dragon-shaped shadow and breathe fire into the dawn.
TITLE: Ready
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
Pseudonym: writing under a false name so that one may write more truly.
DATE: 2006 Apr 5
A flower's appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 2006 Mar 3
I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine — she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.
I love my father as the stars — he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.
TITLE: M&D
DATE: 2006 Sep 1
The swing on your porch is a better liver of life than the chair in front of your desk.
DATE: 2006 Sep 3
If a butterfly lands on your shoulder, don't wait until later to enjoy it.
DATE: 2006 Sep 4
Nature is my medicine.
DATE: 2006 Nov 3
...the ember and firesmoke shades of winter twilight...
DATE: 2006 Nov 24
poetry is flitting butterfly words
leaving inky spots on fragile papery wings
DATE: 2006 Jul 2
the green grass and happy skies
court the fluttering butterflies
DATE: 2006 Sep 4
to a bee, honey is work
to us, it is leisure, luxury, pleasure —
if only the eating thereof
would fill us with the spirit of hard work
TITLE: Labor, Honey, Life
DATE: 2006 Mar 10
NOTES: revised
Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges.
DATE: 2006 Apr 6
Many of us have become as processed as our foods.
TITLE: Nutrimental
DATE: 2006 Apr 2
NOTES: revised
I need to work my way into a decision and stop trying to think my way into one.
TITLE: Overthinking, underdoing
DATE: 2006 Apr 2
An aging man cannot rewrite his youth but a youth may rewrite his own future.
DATE: 2006 Jun 20
Fear and courage are brothers.
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
The sun heals.
Laughter heals.
Love, breathing, touch, beauty
Nature, warmth, kinship heal
if you will let them
Be part of your medicine.
DATE: 2006 Mar 30
NOTES: revised
Let the stormy sky be your prayer, raining faith down upon you.
DATE: 2006 Apr 7
An author, behind his words, is naked.
TITLE: Wordcloth
DATE: 2006 Aug 6
Body puts us on the brittle line between life and death.
DATE: 2006 Mar 8
Healing is freedom from worry.
Healing is to live and not to pretend to live.
Healing is gratitude.
Healing is balance.
Healing is letting go.
Healing is the energy of now.
DATE: 2006 Apr 28
a palace of doubt is senseless
the chambers have no light
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.
DATE: 2006 Mar 30
He had an astringent spirit — the sort of fellow who uses dehydrated onion when the recipe calls for fresh, not because he's out but solely on principle.
DATE: 2006 Apr 1
Worry bankrupts the spirit.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Love surrounds our souls as sunshine surrounds the earth — moments of light and darkness but always there.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
NOTES: revised
the old book glows
in its own literary light
on a lonely shelf at night
halo'd by a glistering cloud
of its author's stardust
DATE: 2006 Feb 2
NOTES: revised
after dark
library sprites fly—
author spirits with
fluttering inky wings
DATE: 2006 Feb 2
NOTES: revised
browsing the dim back corner
of a musty antique shop
an old book of poetry fell open
gold-gilded dust filled the air
angels flew out from the pages
i caught the whiff of a soul
the ink seemed fresh as today
was that voices whispering?
the tree of the paper still grows
DATE: 2006 Aug 9
NOTES: revised
He can only write in ounces
Not literature by the pound
Epigram, maxim, aphorism
Words efficiently profound
TITLE: Light verse
DATE: 2006 Apr 16
NOTES: revised
My meaningless office job: they pay me for my body and mind, but my heart gets no paycheck and my soul pays the taxes.
DATE: 2006 Oct 15
sometimes our hearts get tangled
and our souls a little off-kilter
friends and family can set us right
and help guide us back to the light
DATE: 2006 Apr 6
NOTES: revised
Let hope be your pulse
Faith in every heartbeat
Joy with every breath...
DATE: 2006 May 4
Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
the air of reality is too thick for me
i choke on it
and must live on shadows—
even my poetry is vicarious
DATE: 2006 Oct 11
NOTES: revised
Dreams are as powerful as swords.
TITLE: Fight for it
DATE: 2006 Feb 2
Be useful each day and take control of your own health. Laziness and apathy can settle into your spirit if you aren't paying attention.
DATE: 2006 Jan 16
Focus on doing good within your reach.
DATE: 2006 Jan 12
Sometimes the best way to fight a personal demon is to turn your back on it and let it wither away. Often you need to face it head-on and slay it with every ounce of your being. And occasionally you can just sit down, have a long honest chat, and turn it into a friend.
TITLE: Don't dis any advantages
DATE: 2006 Jan 9
Pulse persists with rhythmic instinct.
TITLE: Body sublime
DATE: 2006 Mar 25
There is no success but your own success.
There is no fate but your own fate.
DATE: 2006 Jul 28
They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy.
DATE: 2006 Aug 2
Sunshine is Nature's hug and spirit breath to the earth.
DATE: 2006 Aug 2
Writing is easy. You just have to sit down and focus — but not too hard.
DATE: 2006 May 21
If Summer is the party, Winter is the hangover of seasons — she dims the lights, sleeps late, hides from the world, and regenerates.
TITLE: Making the coffee extra strong
DATE: 2006 Dec 9
NOTES: revised
Unwell? —
cough, sneeze
and ache prayer.
DATE: 2006 Dec 10
NOTES: revised
Age attacks when we least expect it.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 2006 Dec 3
AGE: thirty-three
If your inner energy is misdirected, so will your whole life be.
DATE: 2006 Mar 18
The night sky is a miracle of infinitude.
DATE: 2006 Jun 17
Prayer is a triumph, in whatever form.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
The best alarm clock is the purring kind.
DATE: 2006 May 5
Are we really sure the purring is coming from the kitty and not from our very own hearts?
DATE: 2006 May 5
The prime deaths of history star the textbooks like constellations of power.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly.
DATE: 2006 Nov 17
Living in this modern toxic world, we are all slowly being poisoned to death.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 2006 Nov 8
Thank you beautiful morning poets for singing me awake—
Henry Wadsworth Songfellow and Alfred, Lord Wrenyson
William Birdsworth, Fyodor Dovetoyevsky, Rudyard Chirpling
DATE: 2006 Sep 25
Let your joy scream across the pain.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
When a cat purrs to you, doesn't it break your heart that you can't purr back?
DATE: 2006 Jul 24
NOTES: revised
I worship at the temple of the coffee bean —
singing hymns all morn to the goddess caffeine
DATE: 2006 Sep 25
Poetry and love can calculate past infinity.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Hope is the silver lining of dreams.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
it's smart as can be
things that make sense in our dreams
when we wake — insane
TITLE: Bedwriting
DATE: 2006 Nov 10
NOTES: silly senryu
The coroner will find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys.
DATE: 2006 Nov 12
NOTES: that came out morbid, but it's metaphoricalwork-hard blood
Let your working ideas go for a picnic — sometimes the fresh air and ant bites are just what they need. Many great ideas were bitten a little at the beginning.
TITLE: Itchy
DATE: 2006 Nov 15
Coffee sparks our morning fuse.
DATE: 2006 May 10
Family — a neverending song of comfort in our hearts. We may sometimes forget the words, but we always remember the tune.
DATE: 2006 Mar 15
NOTES: revised
Whenever I see sunbeams coming through clouds, it always looks to me like God shining himself down onto us... The sun is always there even though we can't always see it. Same with God.
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
NOTES: revised
The desire in our minds is as real as the thirst in our throats.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
It's wasn't plagiarism — he was recycling words, as any environmentally conscious writer would do.
DATE: 2006 Jan 28
NOTES: revised
Intuition, my trustworthy friend...
DATE: 2006 Nov 10
Hope springs anew from the soil of suffering.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside too.
DATE: 2006 Jun 23
Cat lovers' hearts are meow-shaped and covered in stray fur.
DATE: 2006 May 4
NOTES: revised
The heroine stumbled, but each time she picked herself up was another victory.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
it's impossible to write poetry while watching tv,
almost impossible not to write poetry in the sun —
in the woods, every breath is a poem — words
form in the sunbeams, for those who truly look
DATE: 2006 Oct 10
NOTES: revised
Art is the struggle to understand.
DATE: 2006 Nov 12
One man's daydream is another man's day.
One man's daydream is another man's pay.
One man's daydream is another man's life.
One man's daydream is another man's wife.
One man's daydream is another man's novel.
One man's daydream is another man's nightmare.
TITLE: Reverie revisions
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
NOTES: revised
Chocolate remedies adversity.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Death is just —
a dash
between
one life and
the next
DATE: 2006 Mar 15
warm & fuzzy
as
purring love
DATE: 2006 Jan 8
The first sip of tea is always the best — you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottestcarpe-diem portion.
DATE: 2006 Feb 10
NOTES: revised
May your karma be wings, not ball and chain.
TITLE: Daily choices
DATE: 2006 Sep 5
Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence.
° ° °
An angel lost his wing,
crooked he did fly.
° ° °
I wear a coat of angels' breath and warm myself with His love.
° ° °
Angels are messengers, but sometimes we misunderstand their language.
° ° °
A grave is braced not just by a tombstone but by angels as well.
° ° °
DATE: 2006 Feb 4
Fairies glitter my heart with giggles.
TITLE: Sparkly on the inside
ALT TITLE: Giggle glitter
DATE: 2006 Jun 8
The sun is the epitome of benevolence — it is lifegiving and warmthgiving and happinessgiving, and to it we owe our thanksgiving.
DATE: 2006 Nov 1
The treasure of self is buried under the rainbow and yet glows beyond the sun.
DATE: 2006 Jun 8
When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights — and flowers will bloom on a barren land.
DATE: 2006 May 16
Soul sells life for the price of heartache.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
My inner advisor is dying to heal me.
TITLE: An owl on the branches of my heart
DATE: 2006 Oct 22
Chocolate is the only aromatherapy I need.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world.
DATE: 2006 Feb 20
When will pleasure crash with regret?
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Food. Water. Shelter. Air. Sleep. Societal inflation has expanded need into greed. Suddenly the basic survival needs also include a cell phone,cable TV, and French manicured fingernails... We've become the absolute biggest whiners of all human history with the absolute smallest justification for whining.
DATE: 2006 Apr 17
How do I find my tune, my song, my personal harmony that's healing because it's me?
DATE: 2006 Nov 1
The way my life goes, I can't tell if there are pits in a few of my cherries or a few cherries amongst all the pits.
DATE: 2006 Oct 15
I am enamored with desert dew because it's usually the closest thing we get to rain.
TITLE: Glistening grass is that moment
RE: Phoenix, Arizona
DATE: 2006 Jun 8
A loving heart heals hate.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
WEEKEND. — Light at the end of the tunnel. Extra sleep. Extra fun. Sanity break!
DATE: 2006 Aug 26
The power inside you is energy amplified.
DATE: 2006 Oct 21
Souls wouldn't wear suits and ties—
they would wear comfy blue jeans
and a cozy soft T-shirt while nestled
cross-legged in a big plush beanbag
with a glass of red wine — or lounge
nude on a puffy silver-lined cloud!
TITLE: Dégagé
DATE: 2006 Feb 6
NOTES: revised
Courage climbs atop fear and screams loud its mighty victory!
TITLE: Wrestling match
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
NOTES: revised
Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice.
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
Patience pilots faith.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Prayer is the coin paid to Gratitude.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
If soup isn't hot enough to make a grown man wince, it's undrinkable.
DATE: 2006 Feb 10
Sometimes it's harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can't pretend you're not at home.
DATE: 2006 Oct 30
Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm.
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
NOTES: only Robert Browning's God knows what this means
Between the figure and the shadow is where all the secret energy lies.
DATE: 2006 May 1
Soul shadows you everywhere.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
He transforms every bottle of ink into a scrolling trail of metaphors.
DATE: 2006 Aug 12
One man's quiet is another man's din.
DATE: 2006 Dec 10
Leaves are words
on tree branch sentences,
each breeze punctuates
as it pleases.
TITLE: Forest for the poet trees
DATE: 2006 May 13
Nature shines past the metric.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Nighttime blooms dream roses —
the scent lingers 'til breaking dawn.
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
Ride off into the night on the beautiful unicorn of magic and dreams!
DATE: 2006 May 15
The secret to living contently and sanely in this modern world is to… find the beautiful in the ugly — but don't get confused which is which.
TITLE: Pollution halo'd moon
DATE: 2006 Dec 31
Adversity collapses around a true adherent soul.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Please don't pee in the pool of harmony.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Blazing starshine ink bled from her midnight pen and left glittering trails of angel words.
TITLE: But the morning sun could make no sense of them
DATE: 2006 Aug 11
writing while awake is hard it seems
go to sleep and write in your dreams
you can speak truly from the heart
when pen and day's inhibition part
DATE: 2006 Feb 10
NOTES: revised
In the sky
an infinitude of hope
a canvas of glory—
all possibilities mine
DATE: 2006 Jul 3
Don't just settle for hope —
you are the keeper of an amazing
silken, glowing, infinite-wingspan,
soaring, heart-wildly-beating,
singing-out-loud, unstoppable
faith, courage, fortitude, spirit & soul
that light your life from the inside out!
TITLE: You
DATE: 2006 Oct 20
NOTES: Whoa, Nelly. Too much caffeine today?
Her asterisks are daft, postscripts redundant, and prose parenthetical.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
America is a great big heart attack.
DATE: 2006 Nov 22
A lifetime is a moment
a heartbeat,
or if you're lucky — a few.
Live every blade of grass
Soar with your wings while
you still can fly.
Taste every fleeting second
Bloom towards the infinite sky.
DATE: 2006 Jan 18
CHEESE FACTOR: Limburger
Love burns across the infinitude.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
My spirit animal is a bookworm.
TITLE: Mircea of ’97
DATE: 2006 Oct 27
STATUS: retired; we're not supposed to say this anymore
My spirit animal is a snail on caffeine.
TITLE: Happy trails
DATE: 2006 Oct 27
STATUS: retired; we're not supposed to say this anymore
Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
i quote my soul, i quote my heart
but sometimes i just quote the wine
TITLE: Grapetalk
DATE: 2006 Aug 11
NOTES: revised
Food is so primal, so essential a part of our lives, often the mere sharing of recipes with strangers turns them into friends.
DATE: 2006 Jan 7
RE: recipezaar.com, before it was corporately destroyed by f૦૦ძ.com
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The year is 2006. The world has changed in about 364 significant ways since you started reading this sentence.
DATE: 2006 Jan 1
winter and spring overlap at the seams—
chilly breezes and warm green dreams!
DATE: 2006 Mar 1
Our bodies let go when it's time to let go — it's called death. We ought to let go of the little burdensome things each day — that's called living.
TITLE: Anew
DATE: 2006 Oct 11
It is of course possible to dance a prayer.
TITLE: Praying hands & feet
DATE: 2006 Dec 31
If you keep a sunny attitude, you will glow like a rainbow when life gets stormy.
TITLE: Inner light
DATE: 2006 Sep 7
Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips.
TITLE: Meant-to's
DATE: 2006 Dec 1
You can never worry your way to enlightenment.
TITLE: wørrier
DATE: 2006 Oct 21
Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere, in opposite directions.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 2006 Jan 14
Don't let the past steal your present.
DATE: 2006 Oct 12
An author tap dances on typewriter keys.
DATE: 2006 Feb 9
Author: a dancer of typewriter keys.
TITLE: Tap dance
DATE: 2006 Feb 9
NOTES: revised
Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.
TITLE: Immeasurable
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Autumn birds speak cheerful poetry from their berry-stained beaks.
TITLE: Elderberry prime
DATE: 2006 Sep 25
Never stop pedaling to power your dreams.
DATE: 2006 Sep 7
sunrise glows in carpe-diem pink
aflame with marbled-gold moments
TITLE: Fast rising east
DATE: 2006 Sep 4
Three A.M. is when
all the quiet things
become loud —
the drip in the sink,
that clock on the wall,
our hearts, our minds.
TITLE: Tempus nunquam dormit
DATE: 2006 Feb 28
Let courage break through the cracks in your fear.
TITLE: Breakthrough
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
Taste just a sliver of courage and it's hard to go back to fear.
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
Reading in bed is a gateway drug to writing in bed.
DATE: 2006 Aug 25
LIFE
is an artist insane
painting his way
with the world...
DATE: 2006 Nov 4
In the dark, glitter is nothing but sand.
TITLE: Lackluster
DATE: 2006 Oct 14
Dawn spreads her wispy pink angel wings over the morning.
TITLE: Good morning!
DATE: 2006 Sep 8
Love isn't just blind
but also stupid —
lobotomy by arrow
bullseye, Dr Cupid!
TITLE: Winsome, losesome
DATE: 2006 Jan 6
Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.
DATE: 2006 Sep 8
Poetry is the dancing skeleton of bare-bones prose.
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
all my poems are starts
they begin but never end
yet do they abandon me
or do i abandon them?
TITLE: Fragmental
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other.
TITLE:
DATE: 2006 Nov 2
A maltreated body will cry out in symptoms.
A neglected body will have its revenge.
TITLE: Symptomatic
DATE: 2006 Jan 4
Night
— the quiet of solitude
— the silence of loneliness
DATE: 2006 Mar 31
Age is like the latest version of a software — it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the previous version had.
TITLE: Deprecated
DATE: 2006 Feb 2
NOTES: revised
When I'm out and about, people are annoying idiots. When I'm home alone, all mankind is loving and good.
TITLE: Humanity in roads
DATE: 2006 Oct 16
does time ever get
so old it aches?
doesn't it ever want
to take a break?
TITLE: Tireless
DATE: 2006 Oct 1
Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.
DATE: 2006 Nov 5
A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden.
DATE: 2006 Jan 22
Spring is a lively swing towards summer
Summer is a hot salsa towards autumn
Autumn is an elegant ballet towards winter
Winter is a slow waltz towards spring
TITLE: Stages
DATE: 2006 Jun 15
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
TITLE: Old soil, new green
DATE: 2006 Jul 12
If you never fall, how can you elevate yourself?
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
Your most important job today is breathing.
DATE: 2006 Oct 1
Stress is the trash of modern life — we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
TITLE: Hazardous waste
DATE: 2006 Jul 7
Let your fear dance with courage — and let courage lead.
TITLE: Duet
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
Poetry is an inky soulprint.
DATE: 2006 Oct 17
Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life's affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion — of fun, love, or something that will outlast you — so that the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions.
DATE: 2006 Oct 20
The heart breathes in beats.
TITLE: Exhale and listen
DATE: 2006 Jan 1
Breathe, thank, pray, rise, stretch, move, live!
TITLE: Morning routine
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
Reducing stress is all about priorities, attitude, discipline, and willingness
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
Junk mail, junk food, our society is full of junk living, period.
DATE: 2006 Jun 11
Much poetry happens in the silence of 3 am.
DATE: 2006 Feb 3
Don't fall prey to the illusion that duty is only to others — you have just as much a duty to care for yourself.
DATE: 2006 May 5
Sometimes what we believe as coincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angel
DATE: 2006 Feb 4
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TITLE: Wingèd workaholic
DATE: 2006 Oct 1
Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie®.
DATE: 2006 Oct 8
NOTES: Don't get me wrong — I'm not knocking a good dose of junk food once in a while. A pair of
Coffee makes grisly mornings bearable.
DATE: 2006 Sep 8
sunset ablaze in carpe-diem pink
fleeting moments of glowing gold
feathered in hourglass-sands gray
with the lucent glimmer of infinity—
and thus the blissful evening sky
exhales gently the passing day
and lights up in its elation that
the world has made it through
to relive night's starry bouquet
DATE: 2006 Sep 4
Bedtime stories are a doorway to dreams.
DATE: 2006 Aug 25
Good manners and graciousness pave the way for future favors. Bad manners crumble the road.
DATE: 2006 Feb 3
Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty — resistance makes it ugly.
DATE: 2006 Dec 31
Nothing is sad on a beautiful morning save to look down and realize you just had the last sip of coffee and the mug sits indifferently empty.
DATE: 2006 Feb 3
Too much coffee! —
the caffeine starts muttering
my mind goes stumbling
my jitters go jiggy
DATE: 2006 Jan 6
Coffee, and I'm a warrior
Tea, a philosopher
Wine, a lover
Water, a napper
DATE: 2006 Mar 16
summer leaks into autumn
autumn leafs into winter
winter leans into spring
spring leaps into summer
TITLE: The cycle
DATE: 2006 Aug 20
This weary ol' workhorse is a unicorn, my friend.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Arteries are the body's thundering poetry.
DATE: 2006 May 6
If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, perhaps your soul has never been in bloom.
DATE: 2006 Mar 4
the ink of timeless books
transmutes in tinge and shade
from one century to another
but classic words never fade
DATE: 2006 May 7
NOTES: revised
Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do.
DATE: 2006 May 30
Our biochemistry bolts and revolts at modern life.
DATE: 2006 Oct 27
Dreams are nocturnal flowers, blooming when the sun has strayed far enough that we can see clearly.
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
A nightmare is only a dream that hits turbulence.
DATE: 2006 Mar 26
If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched.
DATE: 2006 Jun 15
There are lots of opport*nities o*t there. And yo* know what's missing.
DATE: 2006 Jun 17
Visualize your long-term goals to paint your short-term actions on the canvas of now.
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
Hatred is a blindman
Seeing only darkness
DATE: 2006 Jul 19
Addiction has a more powerful pull than just about anything else on earth.
DATE: 2006 Oct 28
I pet her and she pays me back in purrs.
DATE: 2006 Oct 29
Each season of adventure reality television gets more challenging. I'm waiting for a Survivor: Phoenix in July edition.
TITLE: Desert, ay, land
DATE: 2006 Jul 1
Renew your passions daily.
DATE: 2006 Jun 15
When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light.
DATE: 2006 Mar 28
May love touch every brutal soldier and every uncherished heart.
TITLE: May love
DATE: 2006 Jul 1
Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.
DATE: 2006 May 8
Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself picking up the extra load.
DATE: 2006 May 8
We must weed our own minds as we would weed our gardens — of overgrown fears, strangling emotions, noxious thoughts, leeching habits, and poisonous beliefs.
DATE: 2006 May 30
Your writing chamber isn't the office or the study — it's your heart.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
My constant bedtime prayer of gratitude: We are all survivors.
DATE: 2006 Dec 13
The heart and the gut are siblings.
DATE: 2006 Oct 22
Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.
DATE: 2006 Nov 19
Day is a solar cathedral, night a starry sanctuary.
DATE: 2006 Jul 7
Being human in our modern civilization is being forced into a boxing ring with Nature. And we're bloodied every time.
DATE: 2006 Jul 6
Plants —
light and life
grown green
DATE: 2006 Jul 7
If you can't get quiet enough to hear yourself, your life is too loud.
TITLE: Internal listening
DATE: 2006 Oct 22
Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer.
DATE: 2006 Dec 17
An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.
DATE: 2006 Nov 12
When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas.
DATE: 2006 Nov 12
Artists talk to themselves on canvas, mumbling scattered colors of emotion.
DATE: 2006 Nov 12
Soul colors the artist so that the artist can color the canvas.
DATE: 2006 Nov 12
A man and his art are like a fool and his king.
DATE: 2006 Nov 12
Some days my prayer is a rainfall of tears, other days the sunshine of joy, and sometimes it's a sheltering umbrella — but no matter what I'm weathering in my life, my prayer is first and always the infinite horizon of gratitude.
DATE: 2006 Dec 17
before gluing back together
a broken soul, first be certain
you don't want to rearrange
the pieces into a new design
stronger and more beautiful
DATE: 2006 Dec 15
Soldiers in the war of poetry
Bleed silky rose petals and glittering thorns
And leave behind beautiful inked destruction—
Embattled souls wounded, and healed.
TITLE: Dyed
DATE: 2006 Jul 2
A poet rips his flesh on the thorn of language and bleeds raw ink onto paper petals.
DATE: 2006 Jul 2
Age swallows our childhood.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
AGE: thirty-two
Does age poison us, or do we poison age?
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
A cat is an adorable violation of the laws of physics.
DATE: 2006 Jun 3
Seeds of joy survive
even buried in sadness
and bloom renewed
in flowers of happiness
TITLE: Revival
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
I hide myself in the quiet white of Winter and nestle in her comforting folds of cold oblivion.
DATE: 2006 Dec 17
A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested.
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
Your hypocrisy is invading my personal space.
DATE: 2006 Jun 29
Let the dragon in your soul be the keeper of your dreams — and breathe fire on all those who dare to tread, including your own demons and laziness.
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
My dreams have a dragon-shaped shadow and breathe fire into the dawn.
TITLE: Ready
DATE: 2006 Jan 3
Pseudonym: writing under a false name so that one may write more truly.
DATE: 2006 Apr 5
A flower's appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 2006 Mar 3
I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine — she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.
I love my father as the stars — he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.
TITLE: M&D
DATE: 2006 Sep 1
The swing on your porch is a better liver of life than the chair in front of your desk.
DATE: 2006 Sep 3
If a butterfly lands on your shoulder, don't wait until later to enjoy it.
DATE: 2006 Sep 4
Nature is my medicine.
DATE: 2006 Nov 3
...the ember and firesmoke shades of winter twilight...
DATE: 2006 Nov 24
poetry is flitting butterfly words
leaving inky spots on fragile papery wings
DATE: 2006 Jul 2
the green grass and happy skies
court the fluttering butterflies
DATE: 2006 Sep 4
to a bee, honey is work
to us, it is leisure, luxury, pleasure —
if only the eating thereof
would fill us with the spirit of hard work
TITLE: Labor, Honey, Life
DATE: 2006 Mar 10
NOTES: revised
Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges.
DATE: 2006 Apr 6
Many of us have become as processed as our foods.
TITLE: Nutrimental
DATE: 2006 Apr 2
NOTES: revised
I need to work my way into a decision and stop trying to think my way into one.
TITLE: Overthinking, underdoing
DATE: 2006 Apr 2
An aging man cannot rewrite his youth but a youth may rewrite his own future.
DATE: 2006 Jun 20
Fear and courage are brothers.
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
The sun heals.
Laughter heals.
Love, breathing, touch, beauty
Nature, warmth, kinship heal
if you will let them
Be part of your medicine.
DATE: 2006 Mar 30
NOTES: revised
Let the stormy sky be your prayer, raining faith down upon you.
DATE: 2006 Apr 7
An author, behind his words, is naked.
TITLE: Wordcloth
DATE: 2006 Aug 6
Body puts us on the brittle line between life and death.
DATE: 2006 Mar 8
Healing is freedom from worry.
Healing is to live and not to pretend to live.
Healing is gratitude.
Healing is balance.
Healing is letting go.
Healing is the energy of now.
DATE: 2006 Apr 28
a palace of doubt is senseless
the chambers have no light
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.
DATE: 2006 Mar 30
He had an astringent spirit — the sort of fellow who uses dehydrated onion when the recipe calls for fresh, not because he's out but solely on principle.
DATE: 2006 Apr 1
Worry bankrupts the spirit.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Love surrounds our souls as sunshine surrounds the earth — moments of light and darkness but always there.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
NOTES: revised
the old book glows
in its own literary light
on a lonely shelf at night
halo'd by a glistering cloud
of its author's stardust
DATE: 2006 Feb 2
NOTES: revised
after dark
library sprites fly—
author spirits with
fluttering inky wings
DATE: 2006 Feb 2
NOTES: revised
browsing the dim back corner
of a musty antique shop
an old book of poetry fell open
gold-gilded dust filled the air
angels flew out from the pages
i caught the whiff of a soul
the ink seemed fresh as today
was that voices whispering?
the tree of the paper still grows
DATE: 2006 Aug 9
NOTES: revised
He can only write in ounces
Not literature by the pound
Epigram, maxim, aphorism
Words efficiently profound
TITLE: Light verse
DATE: 2006 Apr 16
NOTES: revised
My meaningless office job: they pay me for my body and mind, but my heart gets no paycheck and my soul pays the taxes.
DATE: 2006 Oct 15
sometimes our hearts get tangled
and our souls a little off-kilter
friends and family can set us right
and help guide us back to the light
DATE: 2006 Apr 6
NOTES: revised
Let hope be your pulse
Faith in every heartbeat
Joy with every breath...
DATE: 2006 May 4
Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
the air of reality is too thick for me
i choke on it
and must live on shadows—
even my poetry is vicarious
DATE: 2006 Oct 11
NOTES: revised
Dreams are as powerful as swords.
TITLE: Fight for it
DATE: 2006 Feb 2
Be useful each day and take control of your own health. Laziness and apathy can settle into your spirit if you aren't paying attention.
DATE: 2006 Jan 16
Focus on doing good within your reach.
DATE: 2006 Jan 12
Sometimes the best way to fight a personal demon is to turn your back on it and let it wither away. Often you need to face it head-on and slay it with every ounce of your being. And occasionally you can just sit down, have a long honest chat, and turn it into a friend.
TITLE: Don't dis any advantages
DATE: 2006 Jan 9
Pulse persists with rhythmic instinct.
TITLE: Body sublime
DATE: 2006 Mar 25
There is no success but your own success.
There is no fate but your own fate.
DATE: 2006 Jul 28
They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy.
DATE: 2006 Aug 2
Sunshine is Nature's hug and spirit breath to the earth.
DATE: 2006 Aug 2
Writing is easy. You just have to sit down and focus — but not too hard.
DATE: 2006 May 21
If Summer is the party, Winter is the hangover of seasons — she dims the lights, sleeps late, hides from the world, and regenerates.
TITLE: Making the coffee extra strong
DATE: 2006 Dec 9
NOTES: revised
Unwell? —
cough, sneeze
and ache prayer.
DATE: 2006 Dec 10
NOTES: revised
Age attacks when we least expect it.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 2006 Dec 3
AGE: thirty-three
If your inner energy is misdirected, so will your whole life be.
DATE: 2006 Mar 18
The night sky is a miracle of infinitude.
DATE: 2006 Jun 17
Prayer is a triumph, in whatever form.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
The best alarm clock is the purring kind.
DATE: 2006 May 5
Are we really sure the purring is coming from the kitty and not from our very own hearts?
DATE: 2006 May 5
The prime deaths of history star the textbooks like constellations of power.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly.
DATE: 2006 Nov 17
Living in this modern toxic world, we are all slowly being poisoned to death.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 2006 Nov 8
Thank you beautiful morning poets for singing me awake—
Henry Wadsworth Songfellow and Alfred, Lord Wrenyson
William Birdsworth, Fyodor Dovetoyevsky, Rudyard Chirpling
DATE: 2006 Sep 25
Let your joy scream across the pain.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
When a cat purrs to you, doesn't it break your heart that you can't purr back?
DATE: 2006 Jul 24
NOTES: revised
I worship at the temple of the coffee bean —
singing hymns all morn to the goddess caffeine
DATE: 2006 Sep 25
Poetry and love can calculate past infinity.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Hope is the silver lining of dreams.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
it's smart as can be
things that make sense in our dreams
when we wake — insane
TITLE: Bedwriting
DATE: 2006 Nov 10
NOTES: silly senryu
The coroner will find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys.
DATE: 2006 Nov 12
NOTES: that came out morbid, but it's metaphorical
Let your working ideas go for a picnic — sometimes the fresh air and ant bites are just what they need. Many great ideas were bitten a little at the beginning.
TITLE: Itchy
DATE: 2006 Nov 15
Coffee sparks our morning fuse.
DATE: 2006 May 10
Family — a neverending song of comfort in our hearts. We may sometimes forget the words, but we always remember the tune.
DATE: 2006 Mar 15
NOTES: revised
Whenever I see sunbeams coming through clouds, it always looks to me like God shining himself down onto us... The sun is always there even though we can't always see it. Same with God.
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
NOTES: revised
The desire in our minds is as real as the thirst in our throats.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
It's wasn't plagiarism — he was recycling words, as any environmentally conscious writer would do.
DATE: 2006 Jan 28
NOTES: revised
Intuition, my trustworthy friend...
DATE: 2006 Nov 10
Hope springs anew from the soil of suffering.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside too.
DATE: 2006 Jun 23
Cat lovers' hearts are meow-shaped and covered in stray fur.
DATE: 2006 May 4
NOTES: revised
The heroine stumbled, but each time she picked herself up was another victory.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
it's impossible to write poetry while watching tv,
almost impossible not to write poetry in the sun —
in the woods, every breath is a poem — words
form in the sunbeams, for those who truly look
DATE: 2006 Oct 10
NOTES: revised
Art is the struggle to understand.
DATE: 2006 Nov 12
One man's daydream is another man's day.
One man's daydream is another man's pay.
One man's daydream is another man's life.
One man's daydream is another man's wife.
One man's daydream is another man's novel.
One man's daydream is another man's nightmare.
TITLE: Reverie revisions
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
NOTES: revised
Chocolate remedies adversity.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Death is just —
a dash
between
one life and
the next
DATE: 2006 Mar 15
warm & fuzzy
as
purring love
DATE: 2006 Jan 8
The first sip of tea is always the best — you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottest
DATE: 2006 Feb 10
NOTES: revised
May your karma be wings, not ball and chain.
TITLE: Daily choices
DATE: 2006 Sep 5
Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence.
° ° °
An angel lost his wing,
crooked he did fly.
° ° °
I wear a coat of angels' breath and warm myself with His love.
° ° °
Angels are messengers, but sometimes we misunderstand their language.
° ° °
A grave is braced not just by a tombstone but by angels as well.
° ° °
DATE: 2006 Feb 4
Fairies glitter my heart with giggles.
TITLE: Sparkly on the inside
ALT TITLE: Giggle glitter
DATE: 2006 Jun 8
The sun is the epitome of benevolence — it is lifegiving and warmthgiving and happinessgiving, and to it we owe our thanksgiving.
DATE: 2006 Nov 1
The treasure of self is buried under the rainbow and yet glows beyond the sun.
DATE: 2006 Jun 8
When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights — and flowers will bloom on a barren land.
DATE: 2006 May 16
Soul sells life for the price of heartache.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
My inner advisor is dying to heal me.
TITLE: An owl on the branches of my heart
DATE: 2006 Oct 22
Chocolate is the only aromatherapy I need.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world.
DATE: 2006 Feb 20
When will pleasure crash with regret?
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Food. Water. Shelter. Air. Sleep. Societal inflation has expanded need into greed. Suddenly the basic survival needs also include a cell phone,
DATE: 2006 Apr 17
How do I find my tune, my song, my personal harmony that's healing because it's me?
DATE: 2006 Nov 1
The way my life goes, I can't tell if there are pits in a few of my cherries or a few cherries amongst all the pits.
DATE: 2006 Oct 15
I am enamored with desert dew because it's usually the closest thing we get to rain.
TITLE: Glistening grass is that moment
RE: Phoenix, Arizona
DATE: 2006 Jun 8
A loving heart heals hate.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
WEEKEND. — Light at the end of the tunnel. Extra sleep. Extra fun. Sanity break!
DATE: 2006 Aug 26
The power inside you is energy amplified.
DATE: 2006 Oct 21
Souls wouldn't wear suits and ties—
they would wear comfy blue jeans
and a cozy soft T-shirt while nestled
cross-legged in a big plush beanbag
with a glass of red wine — or lounge
nude on a puffy silver-lined cloud!
TITLE: Dégagé
DATE: 2006 Feb 6
NOTES: revised
Courage climbs atop fear and screams loud its mighty victory!
TITLE: Wrestling match
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
NOTES: revised
Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice.
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
Patience pilots faith.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Prayer is the coin paid to Gratitude.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
If soup isn't hot enough to make a grown man wince, it's undrinkable.
DATE: 2006 Feb 10
Sometimes it's harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can't pretend you're not at home.
DATE: 2006 Oct 30
Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm.
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
NOTES: only Robert Browning's God knows what this means
Between the figure and the shadow is where all the secret energy lies.
DATE: 2006 May 1
Soul shadows you everywhere.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
He transforms every bottle of ink into a scrolling trail of metaphors.
DATE: 2006 Aug 12
One man's quiet is another man's din.
DATE: 2006 Dec 10
Leaves are words
on tree branch sentences,
each breeze punctuates
as it pleases.
TITLE: Forest for the poet trees
DATE: 2006 May 13
Nature shines past the metric.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Nighttime blooms dream roses —
the scent lingers 'til breaking dawn.
DATE: 2006 Mar 11
Ride off into the night on the beautiful unicorn of magic and dreams!
DATE: 2006 May 15
The secret to living contently and sanely in this modern world is to… find the beautiful in the ugly — but don't get confused which is which.
TITLE: Pollution halo'd moon
DATE: 2006 Dec 31
Adversity collapses around a true adherent soul.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Please don't pee in the pool of harmony.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
Blazing starshine ink bled from her midnight pen and left glittering trails of angel words.
TITLE: But the morning sun could make no sense of them
DATE: 2006 Aug 11
writing while awake is hard it seems
go to sleep and write in your dreams
you can speak truly from the heart
when pen and day's inhibition part
DATE: 2006 Feb 10
NOTES: revised
In the sky
an infinitude of hope
a canvas of glory—
all possibilities mine
DATE: 2006 Jul 3
Don't just settle for hope —
you are the keeper of an amazing
silken, glowing, infinite-wingspan,
soaring, heart-wildly-beating,
singing-out-loud, unstoppable
faith, courage, fortitude, spirit & soul
that light your life from the inside out!
TITLE: You
DATE: 2006 Oct 20
NOTES: Whoa, Nelly. Too much caffeine today?
Her asterisks are daft, postscripts redundant, and prose parenthetical.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
America is a great big heart attack.
DATE: 2006 Nov 22
A lifetime is a moment
a heartbeat,
or if you're lucky — a few.
Live every blade of grass
Soar with your wings while
you still can fly.
Taste every fleeting second
Bloom towards the infinite sky.
DATE: 2006 Jan 18
CHEESE FACTOR: Limburger
Love burns across the infinitude.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
My spirit animal is a bookworm.
TITLE: Mircea of ’97
DATE: 2006 Oct 27
STATUS: retired; we're not supposed to say this anymore
My spirit animal is a snail on caffeine.
TITLE: Happy trails
DATE: 2006 Oct 27
STATUS: retired; we're not supposed to say this anymore
Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places.
DATE: 2006 Jun 28
i quote my soul, i quote my heart
but sometimes i just quote the wine
TITLE: Grapetalk
DATE: 2006 Aug 11
NOTES: revised
Food is so primal, so essential a part of our lives, often the mere sharing of recipes with strangers turns them into friends.
DATE: 2006 Jan 7
RE: recipezaar.com, before it was corporately destroyed by f૦૦ძ.com