A child on the way
A smiling flower gay
Eternal dewdrops’ touch
Glimpse of my first crush
I asked for little
You bestowed everything
A child on the way
A smiling flower gay
Eternal dewdrops’ touch
Glimpse of my first crush
I asked for little
You bestowed everything
What a sweet and humble poem. I loved it!
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
Nice little poem. I like the last two lines.
Oh, yeah, Ashy, Those last two lines: beautiful.
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...
This is really beautiful, and of course in a few words you said lots of things. The beauty of it is that it condenses lots of ideas, ranges of meanings. I do not know what I got in this piece I really got immersed.
Notwithstanding whatever the poet has to say, something spiritual or others, the profundity of the poem moved me beyond imagination.
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
and said with so few words, love it. I hear cowbells on this one. B
"I am glad to learn my friend that you had not yet submitted yourself to any of the mouldy laws of Literature."
-John Muir
"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light"
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
and thank you poets