Prayers for the blind
When what they really need is
Your understanding.
Prayers for the blind
When what they really need is
Your understanding.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
your understanding
random empathy, worthless
without a focus
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
without a focus
there remains little purpose
for doing anything
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
for doing anything
that is thought to be worthwhile
requires your heart
[though I have never 'met' you previously, a warm welcome back, verybaddmom!]
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
~Albert Einstein
Requires your heart
Racing and palpitating
Edging toward the edge.
“As Kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame . . .”
Why disqualify the rush? I'm tabled. I'm tabled.
Edging toward the edge,
breathless and dizzying...
Spread your wings and fly.
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon
CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.
Spread your wings and fly
And, unlike poor Icarus
watch out for the sun
watch out for the sun
the glare is blinding to some
that's why i wear shades
that's why i wear shades
flashing iris searing light
image burned aside
and thank you kaz
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
image burned aside
shattered fragments of a life
that blossomed too late
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
~Albert Einstein
That blossomed too late....
petals dropped, unnoticed by
she who long waited.
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon
CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.
She who long waited
Released from sexual tyrants
That religion breeds
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
That religion breeds
a belief in unseen things,
all unprovable.
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon
CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.
all improvable—
as if forbidden knowledge—
conspiracy, think?
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
Conspiracy-think...
a concept that disguises
one's man's behaviour.
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon
CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.