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Moon Angel

MOON ANGELA SOUL WHISPERS POETRY

About Me

SORRY, PAGE NEEDS TO LOAD. IT WILL ONLY TAKE A FEW MINUTES AND HOPEFULLY YOU WILL FIND VIEWING MY PAGE WORTH THE WAIT. "To assume is to be deceived."-- Yiddish proverb "Understanding is a three edged sword. Your truth, their truth... and the real truth in between." Dear Visitors & Friends.............. I am so glad you are here and I hope that my page doesn't hold you hostage while loading. I wanted to let you know that any and all questions, whether about me, my page, or my poetry are welcome. I would much prefer that than having you assume, perceive or judge based on superficial criteria. I consider almost any inquiry a true sign of maturity and wisdom. Assumptions are too often unwarranted and foolish. We should never judge a book by it's cover. So, even though we all have things we prefer to hide from the world, I assure you I have very little and if I receive a sincere question, I will gladly answer it to the best of my ability and at the same time appreciate the consideration. Hopefully, you will enjoy your visit and find something to relate to.....that connects us all as human beings in this grand experience we call life. Love & Light, ~Barbara

Before I begin...I must tell you that much of the beauty found here I snagged from a truly beautiful lady....please visit her page..And note, her work is copyrighted! http://www.myspace.com/songbirdsings You won't regret it! Her talent is amazing, as is she..... Thank you Sabrina...my sister in spirit, twin in soul and keeper of the whispers from my heart.......I love you dearly... ~Barbara~

Another generous contibutor to the artwork is "Sunshine Melody". She too has a unique perspective and was kind enough to allow me to put her work on my page. Her work is copyrighted as "Sheliak" the Morningstar. Check her out at........ http://www.myspace.com/anothermorningstarprod

Hi! My name is Barbara. Welcome to my eclectic...pic loaded page...May you find something that touches you here...

The real sign of serenity is not seen so much in the face, as found in the depth and stillness of the eyes.

I was born and raised in Northern Indiana about an hour out of Chicago. I am Irish on my Mother's side and Polish/Slovak on my Father's. They passed away young, many years ago. I went through twelve intense years of Catholic education, two of which were spent in a convent, because I truly wished to be a nun at the time. No kidding, I really did. As you can see, that did not materialize.

I continue to smoke, Marlboro Lights, against the advice of the wise. I favor Corona, Captain Morgan, Stoli, Malibu Rum, Kahlua and Lambrusco as my choices of poison on occasion but not (usually) to excess.

I write poetry, collect all things pegasus, rosaries, music boxes and angels. I favor the decade of the the 70's. I am a night person. I love movies and music as you can see below. I have a wicked sense of humor, that I could not live without. I love to laugh until it hurts and cry until it doesn't. I am sentimental to a fault, compassionate, and honest. Although I do have a command over the english language, I tend to pepper my language like a sailor from time to time. I was raised with 5 brothers, had three sons, and it is second nature. No offense intended.

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
Anais Nin

I like mandolins, guitars, harmonicas, windchimes, sunsets, wedgewood blue and yellow, dangle earrings, sapphires, the sound of a train, candles, fireplaces, horses, a full moon, a rainy day, the ocean, mountains, daffodils, carnations, pastel colored roses, fireworks, cotton candy, popcorn, a child's laughter, rocking chairs, clouds and stars, the fall, Christmas lights, the scent of pine, oak trees, Shalimar cologne, bubble baths, leather and lace, a cool breeze, motorcycles, wide open spaces, a circus, carnivals, pierogis, waterfalls, mockingbirds, butterflies, ferris wheels, carousels, cardinals, porcelain dolls, long walks, the sound of the ice cream truck, a front porch swing, gazebos, dancing, soft sweaters, down pillows, and fresh coffee.

I fear heights and yet will hop a plane anywhere. My dream vacation would be to Ireland. My dream home would be a log cabin in Montana. And yes..............I love Jesus and grateful every day that the feeling is mutual.

I am pleased you've stopped by...................

~Barbara

The only unbearable thing, is that nothing is unbearable...... Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning

My Interests

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." -Alice Walker Elton John - The One Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on that sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan ThomasPoetry * True Crime * Documentaries * Psychology...I love to read a good book every once and a while. I enjoy getting lost for a couple of hours with a good movie, music is vital to me, probably never more so than now, I collect music boxes, snowglobes, rosaries, angels, pegasus pieces, and I write poetry... which you'll find in my blog if interested...

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." ~Ryunosuke Satoro

"love builds up the broken wall and straigtens the crooked path. love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides each of us is created of it and i suspect each of us was created for it" ~ Maya Angelou

"Eternity begins and ends with the ocean's tides." ~unknown

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher "A poet scrawls the whispers heard within the soul" ~ Barbara~ Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Jose Addison "Why are there trees I never walk under But large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?" ~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass~

It's The Special Things In Life That Make It Mean So Much. The Sun, The Rain, The Sky; The Thoughts and The Touch.

If We Let These Precious Things Float Out To an Endless Sea, We Lose Our Hope, Our Love, And Most, Our Reason To Be.

" Energy and persistence conquer all things. "
~ Benjamin Franklin "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. "
~ Emily Dickinson "Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. "
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds you plant."
~Robert Louis Stevenson "If you're going through hell, keep going. "
~ Sir Winston Churchill "Your talent is God's gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift back to God. "
~ Leo Buscaglia "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:
It goes on. "
~ Robert Frost "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt "It is never too late to be what you might have been."
~ George Eliot "The future depends on what we do in the present."
~ Mahatma Gandhi "To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful
and hopeful than to be forty years old."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes "What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence.
The only thing of consequence is what we do."
~ John Ruskin

Inspiring Words

Do not undermine your worth by Comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different That each of us is special.

Do not set your goals by what Other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.

Do not take for granted the things Closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.

Do not let your life slip through your fingers By living in the past nor for the future. By living your life one day at a time, You live all the days of your life.

Do not give up when you Still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the Moment you stop trying. It is a fragile thread that Binds us to each other.

Do not be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances That we learn how to be brave.

Do not shut love out of your life by Saying it is impossible to find. The quickest way to receive Love is to give love; The fastest way to lose love Is too hold it too tightly;

In addition, the best way to keep Love is to give it wings. Do not dismiss your dreams. To be without dreams Is to be without hope; To be without hope Is to be without purpose.

Do not run through life So fast that you forget Not only where you have been, But also where you are going. Life is not a race, But a journey to be savored Each step of the way.

Sweet wonderful Angel,
Rest in your dreams,
The love that I send you
Is more than it seems. When you awaken,
Awaken in peace,
And know that I held you
While you were asleep. Darkness
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went - and came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation; and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light:
And they did live by watchfires - and the thrones,
The palaces of crowned kings - the huts,
The habitations of all things which dwell,
Were burnt for beacons; cities were consumed,
And men were gathered round their blazing homes
To look once more into each other's face;
Happy were those who dwelt within the eye
Of the volcanos, and their mountain-torch:
A fearful hope was all the world contain'd;
Forests were set on fire - but hour by hour
They fell and faded - and the crackling trunks
Extinguish'd with a crash - and all was black.
The brows of men by the despairing light
Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits
The flashes fell upon them; some lay down
And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest
Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smiled;
And others hurried to and fro, and fed
Their funeral piles with fuel, and looked up
With mad disquietude on the dull sky,
The pall of a past world; and then again
With curses cast them down upon the dust,
And gnash'd their teeth and howl'd: the wild birds shriek'd,
And, terrified, did flutter on the ground,
And flap their useless wings; the wildest brutes
Came tame and tremulous; and vipers crawl'd
And twined themselves among the multitude,
Hissing, but stingless - they were slain for food.
And War, which for a moment was no more,
Did glut himself again; - a meal was bought
With blood, and each sate sullenly apart
Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left;
All earth was but one thought - and that was death,
Immediate and inglorious; and the pang
Of famine fed upon all entrails - men
Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;
The meagre by the meagre were devoured,
Even dogs assail'd their masters, all save one,
And he was faithful to a corse, and kept
The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay,
Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead
Lured their lank jaws; himself sought out no food,
But with a piteous and perpetual moan,
And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand
Which answered not with a caress - he died.
The crowd was famish'd by degrees; but two
Of an enormous city did survive,
And they were enemies: they met beside
The dying embers of an altar-place
Where had been heap'd a mass of holy things
For an unholy usage; they raked up,
And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands
The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath
Blew for a little life, and made a flame
Which was a mockery; then they lifted up
Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld
Each other's aspects - saw, and shriek'd, and died -
Even of their mutual hideousness they died,
Unknowing who he was upon whose brow
Famine had written Fiend. The world was void,
The populous and the powerful - was a lump,
Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless -
A lump of death - a chaos of hard clay.
The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still,
And nothing stirred within their silent depths;
Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,
And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropp'd
They slept on the abyss without a surge -
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
The moon their mistress had expir'd before;
The winds were withered in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
Of aid from them - She was the Universe. ~Lord Byron~ "In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted." -- C.G. Jung

I'd like to meet:

Love is.....a reflection of a better version of ourselves in another's eyes. ~ Barbara ~ Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

I would like to meet GOD, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Anne Rice, Bruce Willis, Johnny Depp, Denzel Washington, Paul Newman, Val Kilmer, Michael Jordan, Robin Williams, George Carlin, Steve Perry, Viggo Mortenson, Jessica Lange, Evanessence, Angelina Jolie, Stevie Nicks, several of my MySpace friends and anyone that is down to earth, sincere and has a sense of humor about themselves and their surroundings, at least once in awhile. Be yourself and you're welcome here..

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise; Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffd with the stuff that is coarse, and stuffd with the stuff that is fine... Stop this day and night with me, and you shall possess the origin of all poems; You shall possess the good of the earth and sun(there are millions of suns left;) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books; You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me: You shall listen to all sides, and filter them from yourself... I bequeathe myself to the dirt, to grow from the grass I love; If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am, or what I mean; But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged; Missing me one place, search another; I stop somewhere, waiting for you...There is that in me I do not know what it is but I know it is in me. Wrenched and sweaty calm and cool then my body becomes; I sleep I sleep long. I do not know it is without name it is a word unsaid; It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol. Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on; To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me. Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters. Do you see, O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or deathit is form, union, planit is eternal lifeit is HAPPINESS...

~WALT WHITMAN - LEAVES OF GRASS - VERSES~

Music:

Scorpions-Send Me An Angel (Acoustic version) Make the best of bad situations.The more you give love, the more love you have to give.Remember the blessings of your life.Increase the light to dispel the darkness.Don't take a bad mood too seriouslyDiscover how special you areChoose how you reactWe don't have to forgive people if we don't judge them in the first place.Hear the sounds around you.Know when to call it quits.Beliefs become self-fulfilling prophecies"I am that one voice, in the cold wind, That whispers, And if you listen, You'll hear me call across the sky".I enjoy many a genre of music as you can see in the following list. THE ROAD NOT TAKEN by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. BLUES AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A GOOD MAN FEELIN' BAD

Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, Savoy Brown, Michael Schenker Group, MSB, The Mary Dream, Gary Moore, The Band, Santana, Dave Meniketti, Mick Taylor, Led Zeppelin, UFO, Scorpions, The Verve Pipe, Steve Vai, Gary Hoey, Tori Amos, Charlotte Martin, The Tragically Hip, Slash's Snakepit, Jeff Beck, Jefferson Airplane & Starship, Alanis Morissette, Savage Garden, 3 Doors Down - Rob Thomas, The Doors - Jim Morrison, The Cult, The Judds, Sawyer Brown, Whitesnake, Melissa Etheridge, Steve Perry , Buffalo Springfield, Bonnie Raitt, Evanessence, Scorpions, Stevie Nicks, Little Feat, Heart - Ann Wilson, Nickleback, Santana, Whitney Houston, Deep Purple, Anna Nalick, Celine Dion, Sarah McLachlan, Indigo Girls, Rod Stewart, Elton John, James Taylor, Don Henley - The Eagles, John Denver, Bryan Adams, Richard Marx, Hall & Oates, Smokey Robinson, Carly Simon, Melissa Manchester, Micheal McDonald - The Doobie Brothers, Eric Clapton,Jackson Browne, Meredith Brooks, Judas Priest, Badlands, Edwin McCain, Boston, John Mellencamp, The Moody Blues, Kansas, Sheryl Crow, Amy Grant, Karen Carpenter, Evanessence, Beulah, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tina Turner, Ozzy Osborne, Michael McDonald, Bob Seger, The Bee Gees, James Blunt, Shania Twain, Babyface, Boys II Men, Alison Krauss, Beth Hart, Tom Petty, Bob Marley, Cat Stevens, Christina Aguilera, John Mayer, Willie Nelson, Joss Stone, Simon & Garfunkel, Norah Jones, Patsy Cline, James Corcoran, Annie Lennox, Jewel, Adrina Thorpe, Chantal Kreviazuk, Avril Lavigne, The Corrs, Pat Benatar, Brian McKnight, Rush, The Verve Pipe, Joan Osborne, Diane Warren, Van Halen, Selena, Josh Groban, Ben Taylor, Oasis, R.E.M., Jim Brickman, Martina McBride, Mandi Perkins, The Wallflowers, Ray Charles, Rose Reiter, Matt Cusson, Michele Branch, Kelly Clarkson, Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Deanna Carter, ZZ Top, The Allman Brothers - Dickie Betts, Jeff Beck, B.B. King, Kenny G, The Dixie Chicks, Shawn Colvin, Natalie Merchant, Aaron Neville, David Helfgott, Linda Rondstat, Staind, Train, Lifehouse, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, BLS, BTO, Oasis, Deep Purple, Lionel Richie, Alabama, George Jones, Charlotte Church, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Amanda Ghost, Bryan Adams, Patty Smyth, Van Morrison, R.E.O. Speedwagon, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Aimee Mann, Lee Ann Womack, Creed, Marc Cohn, Marvin Gaye, U2 (some), Rolling Stones (some), Goo Goo Dolls, Foreigner, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Armatrading, Indigo Girls, The Who, Green Day (some), Led Zeppelin (some), Steve Winwood, Richard Marx, Gin Blossoms, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Faith Hill, Five For Fighting, Genesis - Phill Collins, Mike & The Mechanics, Emmy Lou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, The Outlaws, Peter Frampton, The Beatles (some), Bruce Springsteen, 38 Special, Cheap Trick, Cream, Dire Straits, Rammstein, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ry Cooder, Andrea Bocelli, Chicago, James Horner, Counting Crows, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Hornsby, Sam Cooke, &..39;Til Tuesday, James Corcoran, Mister, Mister, Roxette, Sophie B. Hawkins, Bonnie Tyler, Los Lobos, Stacie Orrico, Night Ranger, Mary Chapin Carpenter, ...

'He kills with injurious vision.'~Jim Morrison~

Movies:

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. Alfred Tennyson - 1850 Be prepared for a really long list...I LOVE MOVIES... Out of Africa, Seabiscuit, Troy, Man On Fire, Soul Food, Crossroads, Cinderella Man, Under The Tuscan Sun, Frida, Frances, Almost Famous, Angela's Ashes, Gladiator,*61, We were Soldiers, In The Gloaming, Home For The Holidays, And The Band Played On, Men Of Honor, Shine, The Green Mile, Bastard Out Of Carolina, Iron Jawed Angels, Iris, Stand By Me, Shot In The Heart, Black Hawk Down, With Honors, Star 80, Henry & June, Coal Miners Daughter, Weeds, In Cold Blood, When A Man Loves A Woman, Barfly, Blade, A Beautiful Mind, City Of Angels, Boys On The Side, A River Runs Through It, The Ghost And The Darkness, The Magdalene Sisters, Million Dollar Baby, Boys Don't Cry, Shindlers List, Gia, Pay It Forward, Road To Perdition, Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle, Mrs. Soffel, Sing, Wit, The Notebook, Fraility, Warm Springs, O Brother Where Art Thou, The House Of Spirits, Sophie's Choice, Somewhere In Time, The Piano, Wonderland, Sweet November, Titanic, Field Of Dreams, Children Of A Lessor God, The Devil's Own, Fight Club, Ray, Glory, Identity, Runaway Jury, From Hell, Silkwood, Goodfellas, Shawshank Redemption, Dangerous Liaisons, Riding In Cars With Boys, The Butterfly Effect, Neverland, Casino, The Sixth Sense, Unbeakable, Legends Of The Fall, Awakenings, Sling Blade, Armageddan, Chaplin, Trip To Bountiful, Quills, Dead Man Walking, Girl Interrupted, Blow, Amistad, The Gift, The Affair Of The Necklace, Dangerous Beauty, Restoration, Thirteen, Sylvia, Monster, Glory, Donnie Brasco, Remains Of The Day, Howard's End, Shakespeare In Love, Emma, Sense And Sensibility, Tin Cup, Two Bits, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, To Kill A Mockingbird, Coyote Ugly, While You Were Sleeping, A Walk On The Moon, The Elephant Man, It's A Wonderful Life, The Doors, He Got Game, Gia, Lackawanna Blues, As Good As It Gets, Losing Isiah, Bridges Of Madison County, Anywhere But Here, On Golden Pond, Cousin Bette, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Biloxi Blues, Lost In Yonkers, Gangs Of New York, Georgia, Jude, Legend Of Bagger Vance, This Boys Life, Good Will Hunting, Castaway, The Great Santini, Avalon, The Apostle, The Passion Of The Christ, White Water Summer, The Scarlett Letter, Fried Green Tomatoes, Pollack, Surviving Picasso, Shadowlands, The Remains Of The Day, The Bounty, Parenthood, Tender Mercies, Stalin, Unforgiven, Catch Me If You Can, The Beach, Finding Forrester Lost In Translation, Nostradamous, Just Cause, Big, Philadelphia, Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, Eight Men Out, Serendipity, Rosewood, The Count Of Monte Cristo, My Left Foot, Foxfire, Mr. Hollands Opus, Prince Of Tides, Hamlet, The Madness Of King George, The Outsiders, Unfaithful, My Dog Skip, Nobody's Fool, Great Expectations, Young Guns, Major League, Cadence, Rated X, Gandhi, Miss Evers Boys, Tom & Viv, Citizen X, Beaches, Heavenly Creatures, The Name Of The Rose, Chances Are, The Untouchables, Waiting To Exhale, The Prophecy, Article 99, Bonnie & Clyde, The Breakfast Club, Empire Records, The Perfect Storm, The Usual Suspects, The Color Purple, Patch Adams, Titus, Pretty Baby, The Big Chill, Always, Ghost, St. Elmo's Fire, Bridget Jones, Chicago, The Village, Braveheart, Tombstone,The Virgin Suicides, Steel Magnolias, Scarface, With Honors, Raging Bull, In Pursuit Of Honor, While You Were Sleeping, The Reckoning, Radio Flyer, Crime Of The Century, The Entity, The Portrait Of A Lady, The Glass Menagerie, Merlin, Murder In The First, Moll Flanders, Cavedweller, The War, The Newton Boys, Training Day, Reality Bites, The Age Of Innocence, Interview With The Vampire, At Close Range, Traffic, Se7en, Amadeus, The Sting, Forrest Gump, Sling Blade, Total Eclipse, Sabrina, Agnes Of God, Primal Fear, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf, Twelve Monkeys, The Reckoning, Neverland, Ray, Spy Game, No Escape, The Godfather, Matrix and Lord Of The Rings series, among many...many...others.I Love Thee by Eliza Acton, 1799-1859.

I love thee, as I love the calm Of sweet, star-lighted hours! I love thee, as I love the balm Of early jes'mine flow&..39;rs. I love thee, as I love the last Rich smile of fading day, Which lingereth, like the look we cast, On rapture pass'd away. I love thee as I love the tone Of some soft-breathing flute Whose soul is wak'd for me alone, When all beside is mute.

I love thee as I love the first Young violet of the spring; Or the pale lily, April-nurs'd, To scented blossoming. I love thee, as I love the full, Clear gushings of the song, Which lonely--sad--and beautiful-- At night-fall floats along, Pour'd by the bul-bul forth to greet The hours of rest and dew; When melody and moonlight meet To blend their charm, and hue. I love thee, as the glad bird loves The freedom of its wing, On which delightedly it moves In wildest wandering.

I love thee as I love the swell, And hush, of some low strain, Which bringeth, by its gentle spell, The past to life again. Such is the feeling which from thee Nought earthly can allure: 'Tis ever link'd to all I see Of gifted--high--and pure!

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ~George ElliotThe reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"The Angels were all singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, Excepting to wind up the sun and moon Or curb a runaway young star or two. ~Lord ByronBe an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone. ~William BlakeIt is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. ~VoltairePay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. ~Meister EckhartAngels descending, bring from above, Echoes of mercy, whispers of love. ~Fanny J. CrosbyWe are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de CrescenzoLife is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go - Rank after Rank, with even feet - And uniforms of Snow. ~Emily DickinsonPhilosophy will clip an angel's wings. ~John KeatsAll God's angels come to us disguised. ~James Russell LowellGod not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. ~John Milton, Paradise LostInsight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ~Jean Paul RichterWhen babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994Angels fly at light speed, because they are servants of the Light. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. ~Jean CocteauMan was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. ~Josh BillingsA pillow for thee will I bring, Stuffed with down of angel's wing. ~Richard CrashawHe spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. ~Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIn Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. ~George Bernard ShawThe angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not. ~Ralph Waldo EmersonAngels shine from without because their spirits are lit from within by the light of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. ~Samuel Taylor ColeridgeMusic is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas CarlyleAngels can fly because they carry no burdens. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit. ~Mae WestFlowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ~Lydia M. ChildAngels are direct creations of God, each one a unique Master's piece. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. ~Richard LovelaceChildren often have imaginary playmates. I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels. ~Richard Purdy WilburI saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ~MichelangeloWhether we are filled with joy or grief, our angels are close to us, speaking to our hearts of God's love. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings! ~John Milton, ComusIf angels rarely appear, it's because we all too often mistake the medium for the Message. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994When our mortal eyes close on this world for the last time, our angels open our spiritual eyes and escort us personally before the face of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. ~Author UnknownHow wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author UnknownWhen we worship God, our angels add their prayers and turn our single voices into hundred-part harmony. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on? ~Tom Waits, "Mr Siegal," Heartattack and Vine (Thanks, Paula.)

GOD knows how hard you have tried. When you've cried so long your heart is in anguish, GOD has counted your tears. If you feel that your life is on hold and time has passed you by, GOD is waiting for you. When nothing makes sense and you are confused or frustrated, GOD has the answer. If suddenly your outlook is brighter and you find traces of hope, GOD has whispered to you. When things are going well and you have much to be thankful for, GOD has blessed you. When something joyful happens and you are filled with awe, GOD has smiled upon you. Remember that wherever you are or whatever you are feeling, GOD knows!

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

~Harold Thurman Whitman~Do not undermine your worth by Comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different That each of us is special.

Do not set your goals by what Other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.

Do not take for granted the things Closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.

Do not let your life slip through your fingers By living in the past nor for the future. By living your life one day at a time, You live all the days of your life.

Do not give up when you Still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the Moment you stop trying. It is a fragile thread that Binds us to each other.

Do not be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances That we learn how to be brave.

Do not shut love out of your life by Saying it is impossible to find. The quickest way to receive Love is to give love; The fastest way to lose love Is too hold it too tightly;

In addition, the best way to keep Love is to give it wings. Do not dismiss your dreams. To be without dreams Is to be without hope; To be without hope Is to be without purpose.

Do not run through life So fast that you forget Not only where you have been, But also where you are going. Life is not a race, But a journey to be savored Each step of the way.

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand"
~ Plato "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. "
~ Winston Churchill "Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes."
~ Emily Dickinson "A great man is always willing to be little."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 "What Is Love?" "When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully -- in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love." -- Eknath Easwaran "Therefore, when I say that I love, it is not I who love, but in reality Love who acts through me. Love is not so much something I do as something that I am. Love is not a doing but a state of being - a relatedness, a connectedness to another mortal, an identification with her or him that simply flows within me
and through me, independent of my intentions or my efforts." -- Robert A. Johnson "When you are aware that you are the force that is Life, anything is possible. Miracles happen all the time, because those miracles are performed by the heart. The heart is in direct communion with the human soul, and when the heart speaks, even with the resistance of the head, something inside you changes; your heart
opens another heart, and true love is possible." -- Don Miguel Ruiz

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch

Learn to get in touch with the silence within and know that everything in life has purpose. Elisabeth Kubler Ross

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Kind words are the music of the world. They have power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as though they were some angels song which had lost its way and come to earth. Frederick William Faber

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul upon another. George Elliot

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return. Maria Edgeworth

We must not only give what we have, we must also give what we are. Desire Joseph Mercier

Oh, give your gifts with spirit warm, and not because you must conform. Kay Riley

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. Indira Gandhi

There are some men and women in whose company we are always at our best. All the best stops in our nature are drawn out, and we hear music in our souls never felt before. Henry Drummond

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that persons soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into the crack. Keith Miller

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to take the risks of responding with the whole heart. Alex Noble

" It is better to Believe than to Disbelieve, In so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility."Albert Einstein

" Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get Only with what you are expected to give Which is everything. "Katharine Hepburn

If something makes your heart sing, that's God's way of telling you it's a contribution He wants you to make.Sharing our gifts is what makes us happy.

We're most powerful, and God's power is most apparent on the earth, when we're happy.Marianne Williamson

Laughter comes from God. Sophocles

Joy is the serious business of Heaven. C. S. Lewis

Your heart sees before your eyes do. Thomas Carlyle

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. - William Shakespeare


Let go of that nagging feeling that something is wrong. For whatever may happen, you can always choose a way to move forward. Let go of the pain you carry from things that happened long ago. Allow yourself to experience the glorious freedom of forgiveness. Let go of the needs that you don't really need, that keep your life so anxious and complicated. Find real fulfillment not in getting, but in being. Let go of the regrets, the disappointments and distress. Choose to follow the very best of the possibilities that beckon you forward. Let go of all the excuses you have for not living fully. Give beauty and meaning to the life and the world that you're in right now. ~Ralph Marston~"AND THEN MY HEART WITH PLEASURE FILLS
AND DANCES WITH THE DAFFODILS." ~WALT WHITMAN~

Risk...........

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool To weep is to risk appearing sentimental To reach out for another is to risk involvement To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self To play your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss

To love is to risk not being loved in return To live is to risk dying To hope is to risk despair To try is to risk failure

But risk must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing

He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave He has forfeited freedom

Only a person who risks.....is free

At Last.....At last, when all the summer shine That warmed life's early hours is past, Your loving fingers seek for mine And hold them closeat lastat last! Not oft the robin comes to build Its nest upon the leafless bough By autumn robbed, by winter chilled, But you, dear heart, you love me now.

Though there are shadows on my brow And furrows on my cheek, in truth, The marks where Time's remorseless plough Broke up the blooming sward of Youth, Though fled is every girlish grace Might win or hold a lover's vow, Despite my sad and faded face, And darkened heart, you love me now!

I count no more my wasted tears; They left no echo of their fall; I mourn no more my lonesome years; This blessed hour atones for all. I fear not all that Time or Fate May bring to burden heart or brow, Strong in the love that came so late, Our souls shall keep it always now. ~Elizabeth Akers Allen~

A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences. Unspeakable torment, where he will need the greatest faith, a superhuman strength, where he becomes among all men the great invalid, the great criminal, the great accurses and the Supreme Scientist! For he attains the unknown! Because he has cultivated his soul, already rich, more than anyone! He attains the unknown, and if, demented, he finally loses the understanding of his visions, he will at least have seen them! So what if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through things unheard of, unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the first one has fallen!
~Rimbaud~ Your serenity is based on taking responsibility without taking blame, and letting go without giving up.

Television:

I love true crime shows (forensic files, cold case files, notorious, city confidential, investigative reports), Documentaries, The Sopranos, Deadwood, Rome, Dog The Bounty Hunter and Intervention.

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. ~Frederick L. KnowlesMoonlight is sculpture. ~Nathaniel HawthorneThere is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. ~Joseph ConradO wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee To make the charmed body Almost like spirit be, And give it some faint glimpses Of immortality. ~James Russell Lowell, MidnightLearn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ~Henry BestonHow like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne! ~George Croly, DianaPress close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night! Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars! Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night! ~Walt Whitman'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven. ~Joaquin Miller, InaThat orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, The CloudThe young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire. ~Percy Bysshe ShelleySome praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark. ~Robert William Service, "Weary"If you can trust yourself when all men doubt youBut make allowance for their doubting too,If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breath a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;If all men count with you, but none too much,If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!~Rudyard Kipling

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." John Quincy Adams "I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong." Abraham Lincoln
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." Albert Einstein "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." Albert Einstein "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." Albert Einstein "It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'Always do what you are afraid to do'." Ralph Waldo Emerson "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." Ralph Waldo Emerson "I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." Ben Franklin "Energy and persistence conquer all things." Ben Franklin "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." Napoleon Hill "You dont have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didnt know you possessed." Napolean Hill "Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." Napolean Hill "Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." Napolean Hill "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." Thomas Jefferson "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." Thomas Jefferson "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Robert F. Kennedy "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." Robert F. Kennedy "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's sharacter give him power." Abraham Lincoln "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt "It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness." Carl Sagan "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan "What this power is I cannot say; All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it." William Shakespeare "Wisdom begins in wonder." Socrates "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." Mark Twain "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth and race." Booker T. Washington "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 opened for us." Helen Keller "People are just about as happy as they make up their mind to be." Abraham Lincoln "Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be." Grandma Moses "We should not say I am an Athenian or I am a Roman but I am a citizen of the Universe'" Marcus Aurelius "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt "Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have." Oprah Winfrey "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." Pope John XXIII "Realize that the reason most people fail isn't because of the competition but because of the limits they place upon themselves, allowing defeat to take over. Take responsibility for your destiny. You can come up with a performance, if you can reach down and dig deep enough into your competitive soul. You can overcome tremendous obstacles." Bruce Jenner "It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you." Rodney Dangerfield "If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." Martin Luther King, Jr. "I'm not a has-been. I'm a will be." Lauren Bacall "You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves." Galileo "You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy." Carol Burnett "You have brains in your head. Your feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose." Dr. Seuss "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." Mahatma Gandhi "You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection." Buddha "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." Albert Einstein "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." Louisa May Alcott "If I am not for myself, who will be?" Pirke Avoth "The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and self-respect everywhere except within themselves, and so they fail in their search." Dr Nathaniel Branden "Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?" Fanny Brice "Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." Les Brown "It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes." Sally Field "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." Harvey Fienstein "The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others." Dr Sonya Friedman "In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned." Jane Haddam "It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others." Sidney J. Harris "Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not." Nathaniel Hawthorne "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." Aldous Leonard Huxley "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." Dr. Samuel Johnson "Accept everything about yourself, I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end, no apologies, no regrets." Clark Moustakas "At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvellously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche "If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person." Fred Rogers "The greatest success is successful self-acceptance." Ben Sweet "You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." Brian Tracy "I never loved another person the way I loved myself." Mae West "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." Zig Ziglar
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway." Mary Kay Ash "You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can." President Jimmy Carter Jr. "If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." Rosalyn Smith Carter "Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." Charles Dickens
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." Benjamin Disraeli "If you want a quality, act as if you already had it." William James
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face." Helen Keller
"Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control." Richard Kline
"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." Peter Mcintyre
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Howard Washington Thurman "The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and he has nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in his mind, no resistances in his body. He doesn't think about his actions; They flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; Therefore he is ready for death, As a man is ready for sleep After a good day's work."
-Lao Tzu, 500 B.C. "Do not stand there at my grave and weep;
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand there at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die."
-Gwydion "Have no fear of moving into the unknown.
Simply step out fearlessly,
knowing that I am with you."
-Eileen Caddy "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
-George S. Patton, Jr. "We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."
-David Sarnoff "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
-e. e. cummings "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
-Helen Keller "Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."
-Seneca "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
-Henry David Thoreau
"Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good."
-William Mitford "Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."
-Walter Scott "All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die'--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."
-Mark Twain "I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."
-Joyce Cary "The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life."
-Lucan "Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."
-Proverb "God's finger touched him, and he slept."
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson "He that lives to forever, never fears dying."
-William Penn "How oft when they were at the point of death have men been merry!"
-Shakespeare "But I will be
A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
As to a lover's bed."
-Shakespeare "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."
-Psalms 23:4 "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life, does greatly please."
-Sir Edmund Spenser "...silence sounds no worse than tears, after death has stopped the ears."
-A.E. Housman "Death is the veil which those who live call life: They sleep, and it is lifted."
-Percy Blysshe Shelley "Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die."
-John Masefield "Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion."
-Dylan Thomas "Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another."
-Socrates "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
-Teddy Roosevelt "Everyone must row with the oars he has."
-English Proverb "God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
-Elbert Hubbard "It is not length of life, but depth of life."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
-William Jones "To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."
-Stephen R. Covey "The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming it."
-Moliere Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ~Colette While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ~Samuel Johnson We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. ~Lou Reed, "Magic and Loss" Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. ~Moliere In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~Robert Ingersoll Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prévert The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. ~Henry Maudsley Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. ~George Eliot While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ~John Taylor

Books:

D.H. Lawrence, Augusten Burroughs, Kathleen Woodwiss, Walt Whitman, Dylan Thoas, Jane Austin, Edgar Allen Poe, Shakespeare, J.D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Byron, Keats, Sylvia Plath, Frank McCourt, Anais Nin, Edith Wharton, Ann Rule, Anne Rice, Wally Lamb, Waller, and the Bible of course!I am a voracious reader. I prefer non-fiction & period pieces overall. I read true crime, and biographies often. I truly haven't read anything listed in Oprah's Book Club that I didn't like!

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~Langston HughesWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when [people] are afraid of the light.~ PlatoBe SomeoneBe someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares, and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.Be someone who genuinely seeks to understand, and you will be wise. Be someone kind, someone considerate, and you will be admired. Be someone who values truth, and you will be respected. Be someone who takes action, and you will move life forward.Be someone who lifts others higher, and your life will be rich. Be someone filled with gratitude, and there will be no end to the things for which you'll be thankful.Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly shines. Be, in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to be.-- Ralph Marston"People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within." ~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross,/B BY SONGBIRDSINGS

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~Kahlil Gibran,/centerInk runs from the corners of my mouth There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. ~Mark Strand, "Eating Poetry," Reasons for Moving, 1968

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ~Robert Graves, 1962 interview on BBC-TV, based on a very similar statement he overheard around 1955Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ~Robert FrostImaginary gardens with real toads in them. ~Marianne Moore's definition of poetry, "Poetry," Collected Poems, 1951A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ~Paul ValryHe who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. ~George Sand, 1851Always be a poet, even in prose. ~Charles Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare," Intimate Journals, 1864Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. ~Eli Khamarov, The Shadow ZonePoetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ~Carl Sandburg, Poetry ConsideredPoetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ~Percy Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, IonOut of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. ~W.B. YeatsThe distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ~Aristotle, On PoeticsPoetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. ~Carl SandburgPoetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ~John KeatsA poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~Oscar WildeTo see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie - True Poems flee. ~Emily DickinsonThe poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem." ~Robert Penn Warren, "The Themes of Robert Frost," Hopwood Lecture, 1947A poem begins with a lump in the throat. ~Robert FrostPoets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ~Percy Byshe ShelleyA prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else" The Dame School of Experience, 1920Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ~James Branch CabellA poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul." ~Soren Kierkegaard"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know. ~Andr GideThe poem is the point at which our strength gave out. ~Richard RosenIt is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. ~Stephen MallarmeThe true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. ~W.B. YeatsIf the author had said "Let us put on appropriate galoshes," there could, of course, have been no poem. ~Author UnknownPoetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ~NovalisThere is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. ~John CageOnly the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. ~William BolithoWho can tell the dancer from the dance? ~William Butler YeatsPoetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. ~Christopher FryIf Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. ~Thomas HardyThe poet doesn't invent. He listens. ~Jean CocteauEverything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. ~Gustave FlaubertWanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. ~Charles SimicThe only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then ~Roger McGoughTo have great poets there must be great audiences too. ~Walt WhitmanEven when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out.... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ~A.E. HousmanPerhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ~Thomas Babington MacaulayPoetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. ~Salvatore QuasimodoYou can't write poetry on the computer. ~Quentin TarantinoEach man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. ~Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littraires, 1862Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. ~Allen TateYou will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. ~Joseph JoubertGod is the perfect poet. ~Robert BrowningScience is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. ~Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish PriestPoetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ~Carl SandburgThe worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood. ~Jean Cocteau, Le Rappel l'ordre, 1926Poetry is life distilled. ~Gwendolyn BrooksPoetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ~Thomas GrayHe lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. ~Oscar WildePoetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ~Robert FrostYou don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ~John Ciardi, Simmons Review, Fall 1962Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. ~William HazlittA poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. ~Yevgeny Yentushenko, The Sole Survivor, 1982A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. ~Edmund BurkePoets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ~Robert FrostPoetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything. ~William BlissettHappiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree. He doesn't eat much and doesn't read much, but listens well and is a most gracious host. ~Astrid AlaudaLike a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. ~Robert FrostIf you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee you a tomorrow. ~Terri GuillemetsA poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ~Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous, 1957We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Dead Poet's SocietyPoetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. ~Alfred de Musset, Le Pote dchu, 1839Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. ~Paul Engle, New York Times, 17 February 1957I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me. ~Edith SdergranI would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. ~Robert Frost, 1935Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. ~Robinson JeffersHe who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. ~Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics. ~Edgar Allan PoeThe poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life. ~Robert Penn Warren, Saturday Review, 22 March 1958A poem should not mean But be. ~Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica, 1926It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ~W.H. AudenBreathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. ~Muriel RukeyserI grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. ~Pablo Neruda, quoted in Wall Street Journal,, 14 November 1985You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick.... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. ~Dylan Thomas, Poetic Manifesto, 1961Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or very produceful. ~Ogden NashWhat is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? ~W.H. AudenChildren and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ~Jean CocteauMathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. ~Thomas HillThe crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. ~W. Somerset MaughamA true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. ~Jean CocteauEverything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. ~Ralph Waldo EmersonA poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ~Rene CharPoetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off. ~Philip Larkin[A poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ~Robert Frost, "The Figure a Poem Makes," Collected Poems of Robert Frost, 1939Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. ~Christopher Morley, John MistletoeThe poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past. ~Robert FrostPoets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. ~Sigmund FreudPoetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ~Edgar Allan PoeTo be a poet is a condition, not a profession. ~Robert FrostPoetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. ~Carl SandburgPoetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ~Samuel JohnsonI've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ~Carl SandburgThe poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~Jean CocteauPublishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ~Don MarquisNo poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), SatiresThe poetry of the earth is never dead. ~John KeatsA poet dares be just so clear and no clearer.... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. ~E.B. WhiteThe poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. ~Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ~Rita DovePoets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. ~Salman Rushdie

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ~Dennis Gabor

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then - in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life - was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view. ~Edgar Allen Poe~
Dear God,
May all the tears I cry,
and all the tears I have not cried but hold within,
pour forth into Your hands.
Please take each painful thought
and unhealed wound,
and send angels here to me.
I long for peace. Amen. - Marianne Williamson,
"Illuminated Prayers"

Heroes:

"If I find in myself,desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, then the only logical explanation is that I was made for a different world." ~C.S. Lewis"Problems cannotbe solvedat the same levelof awarenessthat created them."Albert Einstein

Jesus, My children, a select few of my relatives and friends, our military and selfless, compassionate, caring, down to earth, honest people in general.

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.". ~Soren Kierkegaard~

I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.Alfred Tennyson - 1850

"The genius of life is to carry the spirit of childhood into old age."~ Aldous Huxley

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.~Author Unknown

'I am lost in the maze of your love..hopefully never to be found..'~Barbara~

Being Deeply Loved
By Someone Gives You Strength;
Loving Someone Deeply
Gives You Courage. --- Lao-Tzu
"Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock. Across the barriers of time and the ultimate destiny, love persists, for the home of the beloved, absent or present, is always in the mind and heart. Absence does not diminish love."
(Mary Parrish, b.1905)
Time With each blink of
the eyelids
with each breath
and touch
and movement
and song;
our time fades
and the music of our history
blends in with silence.
Copyright 2006 sonofsoil
 http://www.myspace.com/sonofsoil "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." -- Plato "Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
~David Grayson "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread."
~ Mother Teresa "Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away."
~ Elbert Hubbard "A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous."
~ Ingrid Bergmen "Hopeless romantics are only hopeless in the eyes of those who don't believe in romance." ~ Jean Zheng "Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content."
~ Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ~Rene Char

Don't leave just yet, I want you by my side a little while longer Stay, For outside the cold winds are blowing Let me believe, for a little while longer that you belong here, with me Gazing far ahead, you hear the winds whispering your name You spread your tiny wings that yesterday only barely carried you I watch you vanishing behind the clouds There awaits your adventure You never, never were mine.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ~Edgar Allan Poe

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. ~Robert Frost

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ~Carl Sandburg

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~Jean Cocteau

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ~Dennis Gabor

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ~Rita Dove

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick.... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. ~Dylan Thomas, Poetic Manifesto, 1961I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me. ~Edith SdergranPoetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything. ~William Blissett

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. ~Robert Frost

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. ~Edmund Burke

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ~Robert Frost

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ~Thomas Gray

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ~Carl Sandburg

Ridgid Frenzy Chilled tears, Spilled onto pachment paper Who's onto you? Your Insides are fierce , you called? Left behind in a sinister Place, you Wept. Reaching upward ,Come Now Its Time Can you see from the Tower. Im going back now Take Hold Of My Hand !
 WRITTEN BY MSB..........SEE HIS PAGE AT: http://www.myspace.com/newmsb

God is the perfect poet. ~Robert Browning

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. ~Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littraires, 1862

~~~~~~~MICHAEL~~~~~~~ The vision of togetherness is only possible if two people
are willing to deal with it, honestly and without ego. - John-Roger

" The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. "-- Charles R. Brown

Matthew ArnoldLongingCome to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again! For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.Come, as thou cam'st a thousand times, A messenger from radiant climes, And smile on thy new world, and be As kind to others as to me!Or, as thou never cam'st in sooth, Come now, and let me dream it truth; And part my hair, and kiss my brow, And say: My love! why sufferest thou?Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again! For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

INSPIRATION: Inspiration is the light that transforms rain into rainbows.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. ~Salvatore Quasimodo

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out.... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ~A.E. Housman

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. ~Christopher Fry

The poet doesn't invent. He listens. ~Jean Cocteau

Who can tell the dancer from the dance? ~William Butler Yeats

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. ~W.B. Yeats

Pray tell...in a world of fast and furious..she glides in moments of tranquility and grace...(Thanks so much BB)

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. ~Stephen Mallarme

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ~James Branch Cabell

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ~Novalis

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ~Percy Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821

"Those who dream by day are aware of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~Edgar Allan Poe~ A Dream Within A Dream
Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep - while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. ~John Cage

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~Langston Hughes

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel withourselves we make poetry. ~W.B. Yeats

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ~John Keats

Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. - Roald Dahl

My White Knight Come Thou, Sweet Love, Charging in, so Brave, On Thy Swift and Valiant Steed. Sweep me up, and Sweep me off mine feet. Sav'st me from the evil-doers. Yea, e'en from the Black Knight's fury, For he would'st steal me away. Thou'rt the only One who canst. Ravish mine lips with fiery kisses, Burn mine skin with Thy touch. Save me, my Knight, I charge Thee. Thou'rt the only One strong enough. Long have I awaited Thee, Long have I Loved Thee. Long have I wanted Thee.... and Thee Alone. Save me from the Darkness. Take thou, thy swift, sharp sword, Destroy our enemies, My Sweet Love, My Sweet Knight, My Belov'ed One. Ev'ra night, High in my tower solar Will I light a candle for Thee. Look to't. It shall guide Thee home again. For I do love thee, My White Knight...Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her by Christopher Brennan (1870-1932)

If questioning would make us wise No eyes would ever gaze in eyes; If all our tale were told in speech No mouths would wander each to each.

Were spirits free from mortal mesh And love not bound in hearts of flesh No aching breasts would yearn to meet And find their ecstasy complete.

For who is there that lives and knows The secret powers by which he grows? Were knowledge all, what were our need To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

Then seek not, sweet, the "If" and "Why" I love you now until I die. For I must love because I live And life in me is what you give.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ~William Shakespeare~

"A true friend is someone who knows you're a good egg even if you're a little cracked."

Keep order within yourself.
- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 288)

" It's The Special Things In Life That Make It Mean So Much. The Sun, The Rain, The Sky; The Thoughts and The Touch.If We Let These Precious Things Float Out To an Endless Sea, We Lose Our Hope, Our Love, And Most, Our Reason To Be. "

"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend."
~Aristotle "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow"
~Unknown "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."
~Samuel Butler "Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
~Marcus T. Cicero "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."
~Albert Camus "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
~ Walter Winchell " Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."
~Jacques Delille

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt youBut make allowance for their doubting too,If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breath a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;If all men count with you, but none too much,If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

~Rudyard Kipling~

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Vulture.....

Vulture..... Vulture circles overheadagain mistakenthinks me dead..... Long dried up for many yearsbrownish blood poolsstreaked by tears..... Salivating closer nowstillness lingersknow not how.......
Posted by Moon Angel on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:36:00 PST

Remnants.....

Remnants..... Mind has been clutteredMuch as my own lifeThings left to salvageFrom lost years of strife..... Rare pieces of meSo long stored awayDiscovering they're allIn such disarray..... Those ...
Posted by Moon Angel on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:53:00 PST

Indignant

Indignant..... I look upon her aghastHer humbleness and restraintBy rote apologeticShe is made of cellophane..... Has never thought entitledTo very much of anythingGuarding each and every wordHer dow...
Posted by Moon Angel on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:52:00 PST

Defined.....

Defined..... Accustomed to isolationSafely hidden from public viewInteractions always manneredAs was learned by the age of two..... Habit formed simple barriersRoutine a stoic outer shellWithout a ke...
Posted by Moon Angel on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:04:00 PST

Capture The Moon...Moon Awaits...

Capture The Moon...... Love grants me a vision from sleep I awake renewing my spirit each breath that I take..... I can capture the moon and pocket a star just as long as I'm near wherever you are......
Posted by Moon Angel on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:04:00 PST

Holy Eve.....

Holy Eve..... With the bright dawningOf this sacred Holy EveMy mood turned sudden sourPast came loose ungrieved..... It crept in slowly onMy favorite day of hopeBut lost an even balanceUpon failed tr...
Posted by Moon Angel on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:10:00 PST

Maze.....

Maze..... Dark shadowed pathCrawling through vineHolding chipped gobletof bittersweet wine..... Overgrown and unkeptAngles are hiddenSmell rotten berriesSomething forbidden..... Choosing directionOn ...
Posted by Moon Angel on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:44:00 PST

Obliged.....

Obliged..... Life's entwinedthat shouldn't beever gratefulfool not to see..... Obligated favorinches to sparespace is grantedtime limit there..... What is besttolerant facesifting sandimpatient grace...
Posted by Moon Angel on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:02:00 PST

Tracks.....

Tracks..... I've come to knowhere only to tellsounds of my echoesescape soulful well..... Humble and gratefulmuch more than a tadguilt ridden anxiouswhenever I'm sad..... Emotions are jumbledquestion...
Posted by Moon Angel on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:55:00 PST