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Calligraphy of geese
against the sky-
the moon seals it.


Yosa Buson

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So cruelly you kissed me.
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is beyond reproach,
but the mountain cuckoo?
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unruffled by the state
police, swarmed in unison,
in ha...
KRISTEN HENDERSON I could be the lone Eskimo, friend of whales and seals."

The Panopticon
JENN FAGAN At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,...
EDWARD LEAR My heart can feel the softness of a star
Only when the moon stays afar
I lay my mind on t...
MUNIA KHAN I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky,
And the blood coursing in the veins of the mo...
ALLAMA IQBAL Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?

Tonight when the stars come out and the m...
VERA NAZARIAN The Cat and the Moon

The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top...
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And the leaves are like black lace
Against a sk...
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What do you say, Percy? I am thinking
of sitting ou...
MARY OLIVER Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus.
Now I am dead,
Now I am fled,
My soul is in the sky. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I got to bed later than most
People to see the moon in the night sky.
And wake up earlier ...
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RICK RIORDAN Your fragrance wafts into the spaces between my breaths
While I keep staring at the sky every n...
AVIJEET DAS a flower knows, when its butterfly will return,
and if the moon walks out, the sky will unders...
SANOBER KHAN When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavend...
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he saw everything that meant the world to him.
Out...
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Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I could be worse, you know."

"How?" I asked, teasing.

"I mean, I have a work ...
JOHN GREEN Rain turned to ice,
and lightning splintered, it spliced
the black sky, it seeped a bright...
A. LEE BROCK Each in His Own Tongue
A fire mist and a planet,
A crystal and a cell,
A jellyfish an...
WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH By the sun and its brightness
And [by] the moon when it follows it
And [by] the day when...
ANONYMOUS Drink wine and look at the moon
and think of all the civilisations
the moon has seen passi...
OMAR KHAYYáM Above us, the moon hangs like a fat blister on the feel of the sky, ready to burst in a spray of vis...
JONATHAN TROPPER As it
Were tissue of silver
I'll wear, O Fate, thy grey,
And go mistily radiant, c...
ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Ah, youth!
It was a beautiful night...
The moon was out of orbit.
The stars were awry...
ROMAN PAYNE You are guarded
and full of light
at the same time,
like the moon
before she und...
PAVANA पवन Dead tree branches rattled,
the cold wind seethed, it prattled
of abominations about to u...
A. LEE BROCK Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride," EDGAR ALLAN POE Just above our terror, the stars painted this story
in perfect silver calligraphy. And our soul...
ABERJHANI Before you came,
things were as they should be:
the sky was the dead-end of sight,
th...
FAIZ AHMAD FAIZ The sea loved the moon
When she was supposed to love the shore.

The moon knew
A...
SAIBER I do shodo magic,” Dali said. “I curse through calligraphy. I have to write the curse out on a p...
ILONA ANDREWS With callused hands
i tasted
the softness of the moon

in the coldest winds
SANOBER KHAN Storm Warnings

The glass has been falling all the afternoon,
And knowing better tha...
ADRIENNE RICH Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he...
RICHELLE MEAD A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

—ATTICUS
ATTICUS POETRY The way of love is not
a subtle argument.

The door there
is devastation. RUMI Dream Song of Thunders:

Sometimes
I go about pitying
Myself,
While I am...
FRANCES DENSMORE i want to be
in love with you

the same way
i am in
love with the moon SANOBER KHAN The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the...
HARUKI MURAKAMI AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITY

For every star in the sky
Someone is holding his ground.
KENNETH KOCH The weight of the sky dropped onto Atlas's back, almost smashing him flat until he managed to get to...
RICK RIORDAN My lover asks me:
“What is the difference between me and the sky?”
The difference, my ...
نزار قباني Nothing touches your skin of sweat
(meltdown of oceanic kisses)
when the purple light
BEAR STEP to be a poet means
to live
with a permanent wound

forever
susceptible SANOBER KHAN It is deep January. The sky is hard.
The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.

It is in t...
WALLACE STEVENS Season late, day late, sun just down, and the sky
Cold gunmetal but with a wash of live rose, a...
ROBERT PENN WARREN MY MOON

I'll always wonder what time it is there; if you're dreaming, or awake. My moon i...
COCO J. GINGER Cheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the...
LANGSTON HUGHES Dividing earth and sky
is not the right way
to think about this wholeness.
It only al...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Like the kite that caught up to the sky,
painted with clouds, I lost track of it,
but it ...
KELLI RUSSELL AGODON You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER I am
the sun and moon and forever hungry
the sharpened edge
where day and night shall...
AUDRE LORDE moon dust in your lungs
stars in your eyes
you are a child of the cosmos
and ruler of...
MEDUESA And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down
As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,
Goe...
EDWIN MARKHAM Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Spea...
EZRA POUND RAIN

Thunder skies
dewdrops fall,
timeless motion.

Heavy drizzles, TARA ESTACAAN it was the kind of moon
that I would want to
send back to my ancestors
and gift to m...
SANOBER KHAN Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out <...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky a...
JEFF LINDSAY To harden the earth
the rocks took charge:
instantly
they grew wings:
the rocks<...
PABLO NERUDA Farewell sweet earth and northern sky,
for ever blest, since here did lie
and here with li...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I had an inheritance from my father,
It was the moon and the sun.
And though I roam all ov...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY ... back then the sky seemed so vast.

And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, an...
INIO ASANO Is it too bold to point out
that there is nothing in the ten commandments
about protectin...
A.J. BEIRENS A pity it is evening, yet
I do love the water of this spring
seeing how clear it is, how c...
LI BAI A power of Butterfly must be -
The Aptitude to fly
Meadows of Majesty concedes
And ea...
EMILY DICKINSON I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came ove...
ROBERT FROST You and I
The starry sky
Dancing in the night
Talking all things life.
NIKKI ROWE Sixteen Moons, Sixteen Years
Sixteen of your deepest fears
Sixteen times you dreamed my ...
KAMI GARCIA A song she heard
Of cold that gathers
Like winter's tongue
Among the shadows
It ...
ROBERT FANNEY A Haiku: Midday

Cloud ribbons on wings
Dramatic cerulean sky
A feast for the ey...
TARA ESTACAAN And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

...
HAFEZ The yellow moon dreamily
tipping buttons of light
down among the leaves. Marimba,
mar...
DENISE LEVERTOV As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
PABLO NERUDA The moon seems unaware
of night's dark hitting
on the damp warm rain
misguiding owl'...
MUNIA KHAN Drunk with beauty, I tore down
Armfuls of blossoms.
How desolate the marred sky!
ALISON CROGGON That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,
what joy
to come falling MARY OLIVER Alexander the Great slept with
'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I’ve never led a...
ROMAN PAYNE Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and earth below,
Over the housetops, over th...
THOMAS J. WATSON Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when yo...
RODMAN PHILBRICK We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers...
ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY S:uch is Heaven on Earth, in all land
A:s the sun brightens to the moon
N:ails the Creati...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES If you put a spoonful of salt
in a cup of water
it tastes very salty.
If you put a sp...
JACK KORNFIELD If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something be...
SYLVIA PLATH I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,...
E.E. CUMMINGS Ceaseless.
Almost too much for this small frame.
You make me part of the sky.
ANDREA PORTES Journey to the end of day,
Come the fire-fly,
Come the moon;
Say a prayer for God'...
CLIVE BARKER We sate on the terrace. Again gazing at the moon. I don't understand women's obsession with the moon...
KIRTIDA GAUTAM Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude.

~The Moon Ma...
CLARA DIANE THOMPSON It was quite impossible to describe.

Here is what it looked like.

It looked li...
TERRY PRATCHETT

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