stale unsettling woe,
heart torn asunder; two halves,
ragged edged me.
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
ragged edged me
Amuse mocks my good haiku
it pisses me off.
It pisses me off
to see great haikus ruined
by others mocking
"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. "
-Louis Aragon
By others mocking
creativity is lost
lets all get along
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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
lets all get along
or we all might be to late
to catch the early worm
"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. "
-Louis Aragon
catch the early worm
or life's moments will leave you
wishing you were there
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
wishing you were there
Telling her you'll ease the pain
Holding her again
“Words are very unnecessary; they can only do harm”
- Enjoy the Silence, Depeche Mode
Holding her again
like the sun revolves the earth,
steadfast attraction.
and somehow a dog
has taken itself & its tail considerably away
into the mountains or sea or sky, leaving
behind: me, wag.
- John Berryman
Steadfast attraction
Is far more physical than
something you can trust
“Words are very unnecessary; they can only do harm”
- Enjoy the Silence, Depeche Mode
Something you can trust
Crumbling into heaps of dust
Blown by a fierce gust
blown by a fierce gust
Into some far off place
all of my beliefs
“Words are very unnecessary; they can only do harm”
- Enjoy the Silence, Depeche Mode
all of my beliefs,
I have steadfastly held true—
now I must question…
now I must question—
could I be the one mistaken—
am I really certain?
am I really certain
enough to stake forever on
one roll of the dice?
one roll of the dice—
you either win or else you lose—
momentous options—
momentous options—
life-altering decisions—
think before you choose…
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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...
think before you choose
All about your job so tight
Remember yourself.
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." --*Helen Keller*