a thorn in my side -
sometimes it's best not to speak
just suck up the pain
a thorn in my side -
sometimes it's best not to speak
just suck up the pain
"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy".
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Location: Turks and Caicos Islands,2003
on the first cold day
Life is lived forward
and understood backward
on the first cold day
we sit before the fire
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
on the first cold day
we sit before the fire
the chill's chased away
"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
start another poem
Life is lived forward
and understood backward
start another poem
to wile away the minutes
"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
Gah. Too many syllables. Po-em, not pome! I'm worse than those people who say liberry.
Should be:
start one more poem.
SO:
start one more poem
to while away the minutes
Life is lived forward
and understood backward
start one more poem
to while away the minutes
it eases the pain
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
Gather the fir boughs
gather the fir boughs
spread them in homely fashion
"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
gather the fir boughs
spread them in homely fashion
now inhale deeply
Last edited by jupiter; 11-30-2008 at 02:12 AM.
alone to the end
"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
alone to the end
yet shadows through the window
alone to the end
yet shadows through the window
keep me company
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
you are everywhere
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