I stumble, I rise
I stumble, I rise
pushing through adversity
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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.
I stumble, I rise
pushing through adversity,
and rising, stumble.
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...the smell of flowers through metal labyrinths.
Which note is finest?
With pencil or fine quill pen?
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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.
Which note is finest?
With pencil or fine quill pen?
Reed, string, breath, or touch?
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
runes in the wet sand
imprints of our seaside love
snake torsos winding
and somehow a dog
has taken itself & its tail considerably away
into the mountains or sea or sky, leaving
behind: me, wag.
- John Berryman
With pen and paper
FRANCISCO
For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.
Hamlet Act I Scene I
With pen and paper
a universe is defined
With pen and paper
a universe is defined,
the undefined felt.
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...the smell of flowers through metal labyrinths.
shattered illusions
"It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows with wisdom how to use the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland."
- Horace
shattered illusions
the last crimsons of twilight
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...the smell of flowers through metal labyrinths.
shattered illusions
the last crimsons of twilight
stars fall, begin here