How To Live Out Loud
The Invitation a poem by Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for …
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How to Find Another Way
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters I walk down the street There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost…I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don’t see it. I fall …
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The Place Where You Are Right Now
This place where you are right now God circled on a map for you. Wherever your eyes and arms and heart can move Against the earth and the sky, The Beloved has bowed there – Our beloved has bowed there knowing You were coming. I could tell you a priceless secret about Your real worth, dear pilgrim, But any unkindness …
Read MoreBe the Best of Whatever you Are
If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill, Be a scrub in the valley – but be The best little scrub by the side of the hill; Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a bush, be a bit of the grass, Some highway happier make; If you can’t be …
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A Biography of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath Writer & Poet Born to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath published her first poem when she was eight. Sensitive, intelligent, compelled toward perfection in everything she attempted, she was, on the surface, a model daughter, popular in school, earning straight A’s, winning the best prizes. By the time she entered Smith College on a …
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Believe you are Good Enough
Another Poem. This poem is partly my own handy-work, and part of a poem that I found on a toilet door. Yes, you heard right! YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH… Just as you are. Happy Valentine’s Day X
Read MoreA Poem about Love ~ Rumi
THE ALCHEMY OF LOVE You come to us from another world From beyond the stars and void of space. Transcendent, Pure, Of unimaginable beauty, Bringing with you the essence of love You transform all who are touched by you. Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows dissolve in your presence, Bringing joy to ruler and rule To peasant and king You bewilder …
Read MoreBanksy’s Love Poem
Beyond watching eyes With secret and tender kisses Our souls reached out to each other In breathless wonder And when I awoke From vast and smiling peace I found you bathed in morning light quietly studying All the messages in my mobile phone! Banksy – Graffiti Artist and satirical creative genius
Read MoreMelancholy and Madness
Black, cruel harsh world Defiantly stares back at me Knowing my in escapable fate a jinx, a fix, a hoax My rigged destiny perplexes me whilst the depths of my minds are subdued and forgetting Too anxious, too tired, too complex I am a shadow of my former self Even now as my words flow I rattle like a pebble …
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