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GARY CALAMAR All my life I've always come back to one thing,
my need to feel free and the need to feel the b...
JESS "CHIEF" BRYNJULSON They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a bless...
JESS "CHIEF" BRYNJULSON It's the ride of life the journey from here to there living and loving every moment like we have non...
JESS "CHIEF" BRYNJULSON This long ride is the blood my heart bleeds...
JESS "CHIEF" BRYNJULSON![]()
So many men so many questions.
(Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)
TERENCE![]()
When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. M...
PHILIPPA GREGORY![]()
Teach me, Father, how to go
Softly as the grasses grow;
Hush my soul to meet the shock
Of t...
EDWIN MARKHAM![]()
You need something," he said, and when I stared at him, he added, "Your face."
"My face?"
...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT![]()
I saw myself, sharply, as a wanderer, an adventurer, rocking through the world, unanchored.
JAMES BALDWIN I grew really fast. It's true I went from 5'6" to 6'1" in six months in 8th gr...
DOT JONES the caress of each word becoming
one
with the page
t...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN![]()
There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do...
JON KATZ Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a po...
DAVID JAMES DUNCAN![]()
It's just been a long week, that's all."
"It's monday night, Jess."
"My point exactly.
SCOTT WESTERFELD![]()
When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamo...
PETER SINGER kisses explode
when...
someone
believes in me
when my heart cries out ...
SANOBER KHAN sometimes i don't know, which moment
which cool gust of wind will come,
and enchant me
SANOBER KHAN and angle of vision, dust, gravity, solitude,
and the part of the law which is the world's wai...
JORIE GRAHAM I PAINT MY FACE.
By Omrane Khuder.
Mirror, distorted; I sit, paint my Face,
Tox...
OMRANE KHUDER![]()
And I Decided (From Arabic)
And I decided to go
Round the world on freedom's bicycle...
نزار قباني![]()
Like the moon shining bright
Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES ![]()
Let our love chase all clouds away
Hold my hand and feel the day
Your footsteps guide my s...
MUNIA KHAN![]()
I'll be gentle," Noah added. My breath caught in my throat as he looked at me from beneath those las...
MICHELLE HODKIN![]()
Gather my leaves,
Twist them into crowns
Let me be the king of your forest
Climb on m...
MICHELLE HODKIN![]()
It's not a pretty world, Papa.'
'I've noticed,' my father said softly.
CHAIM POTOK![]()
I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN![]()
Light
That's how I feel-
like the winter-fringed
breeze might scoop
me up ...
ELLEN HOPKINS![]()
As I age in the world it will rise and spread,
and be for this place horizon
and orison, t...
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JUAN WILLIAMS My mother always told me
No monster lived beneath my bed,
But she had failed to warn me ERIN HANSON I have spent so many nights out under the stars
Euphoria running through my veins and alcohol c...
MORRIS R. GATES The wind has many lovers and I am one of them, I move freely in her arms
I know no chains, nor ...
MICHELINE JEAN LOUIS![]()
Hearts In Me
If I look to the world with hearts in my eyes
Then surely I’ll be int...
JAY WOODMAN Spiderman was my favorite comic book character growing up. I'm a geek, so I love the fact Peter ...
JOSH KEATON I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding-place:
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshin...
ELIZABETH CLEPHANE![]()
All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The new expanded spirituality is all inclusive. It is inclusive, because it comes from unconditional...
RAPHAEL ZERNOFF![]()
I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain,
And it dripped in my head
And flowed into...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN![]()
If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM![]()
And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of...
PABLO NERUDA![]()
I can sense your love,
why leave me in darkness?
Beguile me for your amusement,
steal...
KAMAND KOJOURI![]()
Bilbo’s Last Song
Day is ended, dim my eyes,
But journey long before me lies.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN![]()
When twilight sleeps holding the night
In your arms you embrace me tight
Runaway hours cle...
MUNIA KHAN![]()
Take my hand
and…
feel the sand
beneath your aimless feet
towards the sparklin...
MUNIA KHAN![]()
Isn't your mom the goddess of inventors?" I asked.
Annabeth glared at me. "Yes, but this is di...
RICK RIORDAN Butterfly Kisses
Aged imperfections
stitched upon my face
years and years of wi...
MUSE![]()
Are you mine?” I asked as I wiped my tears.
He kissed the corners of my mouth softly, and I f...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS![]()
Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more mischief than they durst:
If in the breathles...
A.E. HOUSMAN![]()
He put a hand to my face and guided my eyes to his. "We never lost that. As much as I tried, I could...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS![]()
Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
That soils my land;
And giv'st me, for my bushel sown, <...
ROBERT HERRICK![]()
Invade me now, my ruthless friend,
And make me cower in the dark.
Remind me that I'm all a...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE![]()
Sleep my little baby-oh
Sleep until you waken
When you wake you'll see the world
If I...
NEIL GAIMAN I keep my kindness in my eyes
Gently folded around my iris
Like a velvety, brown blanket...
SANOBER KHAN![]()
So many details came into focus. The shape of his lips, the line of his neck. “I’m not dangerous...
RICHELLE MEAD![]()
Fix me," I commanded him. "This thing, what I've done - there's something wrong with me, Noah. Fix i...
MICHELLE HODKIN![]()
But Aladdin says nothing.
Instead, he lowers his face and softly kisses the side of my neck, hi...
JESSICA KHOURY![]()
My visage high above your city,
Shines like gold, but half as pretty.
Arms I've none, but ...
MEGAN FRAZER BLAKEMORE![]()
Mad Girl's Love Song
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and...
SYLVIA PLATH Just as it is known
That an image of one's face is seen
Depending on a mirror
But doe...
NāGāRJUNA Nights and days came and passed
And summer and winter
and the rain.
And it was good t...
MARGARET WISE BROWN Sage shifted beneath me. I put one of my hands back into his thick hair and left it there, pretendin...
KARINA HALLE I close my eyes
Only for a moment,
then the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass be...
KANSAS (BAND) Dreams are memories.
Memories are dreams.
But my time with you hasn’t become a dream j...
F.K. PRESTON![]()
But...you could have whatever you wished."
"Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck.
"But," I ...
LIBBA BRAY you were
and always will be
that first ever touch
to have fertilized
the g...
SANOBER KHAN![]()
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
Write, for instance: "The night is full of ...
PABLO NERUDA![]()
Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green ...
MARY OLIVER![]()
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS![]()
And when we finally stood up and turned to face the world, I could feel something climbing through m...
MARKUS ZUSAK I find no peace, and all my war is done,
I fear and hope; I burn and freeze like ice;
I fl...
THOMAS WYATT Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all?
I whisper it first then I sa...
LESLEY HAUGE The plants and flowers
I raised about my hut
I now surrender
To the will
Of the ...
RYōKAN Your heart beats between the palm of my hand.
Its need to be
One with me
Drips
B...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Your heart beats against the palm of my hand.
Its need to be
One with me
Drips
B...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN![]()
So many Gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being ki...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX![]()
Standing Here
My entire world far beneath
my feet, I should be filled
wit...
ELLEN HOPKINS![]()
I would not have a god come in
To shield me suddenly from sin,
And set my house of life ...
SARA TEASDALE The Invisible is moving
Softly and soothing
I feel it inside
It is you
It is my ...
RIXA WHITE The world is thinning
and the earth...it's still spinning
my world is thinning
...
SANOBER KHAN but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical
dilemma/ i havent conque...
NTOZAKE SHANGE I cry often.
I cry and cleanse my
face with my tears and
swim to the center
...
A.P. SWEET![]()
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery tur...
SYLVIA PLATH![]()
I can't leave you," he says hoarsely.
"I can't leave you either," I say, shaking my head. "I ca...
CYNTHIA HAND![]()
God's given me so much talent, and my height doesn't define my skill set. I believe that God...
RUSSELL WILSON![]()
The Wolf trots to and fro,
The world lies deep in snow,
The raven from the birch tree flie...
HERMANN HESSE I pull on his fingers softly, tired of this talk. “I have something to tell you…”
H...
STEPHANIE LIACI![]()
All at once
A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,
And I am in the wilderness alone.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT![]()
How clear she shines ! How quietly
I lie beneath her guardian light;
While heaven and ear...
EMILY BRONTë![]()
Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me.
“Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego ...
SIMONE ELKELES![]()
ROCK STATE OF MIND
The lights go out
Darkness takes over my mind
I can see only...
EVY MICHAELS![]()
Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,<...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
It is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;
Nor doth...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You’re the mayfly,' he murmurs.
And then Evan Walker kisses me.
Holding my hand across...
RICK YANCEY Hello?”
“Hey.” She sounded pissed. “What the hell happened to you tonight? Jess said th...
KODY KEPLINGER![]()
Sure. Whatever. She’s all yours.”
Daemon grinned. “That she is.”
My hand was twitc...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT![]()
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread sof...
W.B. YEATS![]()
I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI![]()
Sonnet LXXXI
And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.
Love and pain ...
PABLO NERUDA
GARY CALAMAR All my life I've always come back to one thing,
my need to feel free and the need to feel the b...
JESS "CHIEF" BRYNJULSON They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a bless...
JESS "CHIEF" BRYNJULSON It's the ride of life the journey from here to there living and loving every moment like we have non...
JESS "CHIEF" BRYNJULSON This long ride is the blood my heart bleeds...
JESS "CHIEF" BRYNJULSON
So many men so many questions.(Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)
TERENCE
When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. M... PHILIPPA GREGORY
Teach me, Father, how to goSoftly as the grasses grow;
Hush my soul to meet the shock
Of t...
EDWIN MARKHAM
You need something," he said, and when I stared at him, he added, "Your face.""My face?"
...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
I saw myself, sharply, as a wanderer, an adventurer, rocking through the world, unanchored.DOT JONES the caress of each word becoming
one
with the page
t...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN
There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do... JON KATZ Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a po...
DAVID JAMES DUNCAN
It's just been a long week, that's all.""It's monday night, Jess."
"My point exactly.
SCOTT WESTERFELD
When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamo... PETER SINGER kisses explode
when...
someone
believes in me
when my heart cries out ...
SANOBER KHAN sometimes i don't know, which moment
which cool gust of wind will come,
and enchant me
SANOBER KHAN and angle of vision, dust, gravity, solitude,
and the part of the law which is the world's wai...
JORIE GRAHAM I PAINT MY FACE.
By Omrane Khuder.
Mirror, distorted; I sit, paint my Face,
Tox...
OMRANE KHUDER
And I Decided (From Arabic)And I decided to go
Round the world on freedom's bicycle...
نزار قباني
Like the moon shining bright Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night
Let our love chase all clouds awayHold my hand and feel the day
Your footsteps guide my s...
MUNIA KHAN
I'll be gentle," Noah added. My breath caught in my throat as he looked at me from beneath those las... MICHELLE HODKIN
Gather my leaves,Twist them into crowns
Let me be the king of your forest
Climb on m...
MICHELLE HODKIN
It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed,' my father said softly.
CHAIM POTOK
I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if ... KAHLIL GIBRAN
LightThat's how I feel-
like the winter-fringed
breeze might scoop
me up ...
ELLEN HOPKINS
As I age in the world it will rise and spread,and be for this place horizon
and orison, t...
WENDELL BERRY Years ago, NPR tried to stop me from going on "The Factor." When I refused, they insisted ...
JUAN WILLIAMS My mother always told me
No monster lived beneath my bed,
But she had failed to warn me
Euphoria running through my veins and alcohol c...
MORRIS R. GATES The wind has many lovers and I am one of them, I move freely in her arms
I know no chains, nor ...
MICHELINE JEAN LOUIS
Hearts In MeIf I look to the world with hearts in my eyes
Then surely I’ll be int...
JAY WOODMAN Spiderman was my favorite comic book character growing up. I'm a geek, so I love the fact Peter ...
JOSH KEATON I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding-place:
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshin...
ELIZABETH CLEPHANE
All night my heart makes its wayhowever it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The new expanded spirituality is all inclusive. It is inclusive, because it comes from unconditional...
RAPHAEL ZERNOFF
I opened my eyesAnd looked up at the rain,
And it dripped in my head
And flowed into...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ... ORLANDO BLOOM
And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of...
PABLO NERUDA
I can sense your love,why leave me in darkness?
Beguile me for your amusement,
steal...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Bilbo’s Last SongDay is ended, dim my eyes,
But journey long before me lies.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
When twilight sleeps holding the nightIn your arms you embrace me tight
Runaway hours cle...
MUNIA KHAN
Take my handand…
feel the sand
beneath your aimless feet
towards the sparklin...
MUNIA KHAN
Isn't your mom the goddess of inventors?" I asked. Annabeth glared at me. "Yes, but this is di...
RICK RIORDAN Butterfly Kisses
Aged imperfections
stitched upon my face
years and years of wi...
MUSE
Are you mine?” I asked as I wiped my tears.He kissed the corners of my mouth softly, and I f...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS
Others, I am not the first,Have willed more mischief than they durst:
If in the breathles...
A.E. HOUSMAN
He put a hand to my face and guided my eyes to his. "We never lost that. As much as I tried, I could... PENELOPE DOUGLAS
Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand That soils my land;
And giv'st me, for my bushel sown, <...
ROBERT HERRICK
Invade me now, my ruthless friend,And make me cower in the dark.
Remind me that I'm all a...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you waken
When you wake you'll see the world
If I...
NEIL GAIMAN I keep my kindness in my eyes
Gently folded around my iris
Like a velvety, brown blanket...
SANOBER KHAN
So many details came into focus. The shape of his lips, the line of his neck. “I’m not dangerous... RICHELLE MEAD
Fix me," I commanded him. "This thing, what I've done - there's something wrong with me, Noah. Fix i... MICHELLE HODKIN
But Aladdin says nothing.Instead, he lowers his face and softly kisses the side of my neck, hi...
JESSICA KHOURY
My visage high above your city,Shines like gold, but half as pretty.
Arms I've none, but ...
MEGAN FRAZER BLAKEMORE
Mad Girl's Love SongI shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and...
SYLVIA PLATH Just as it is known
That an image of one's face is seen
Depending on a mirror
But doe...
NāGāRJUNA Nights and days came and passed
And summer and winter
and the rain.
And it was good t...
MARGARET WISE BROWN Sage shifted beneath me. I put one of my hands back into his thick hair and left it there, pretendin...
KARINA HALLE I close my eyes
Only for a moment,
then the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass be...
KANSAS (BAND) Dreams are memories.
Memories are dreams.
But my time with you hasn’t become a dream j...
F.K. PRESTON
But...you could have whatever you wished.""Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck.
"But," I ...
LIBBA BRAY you were
and always will be
that first ever touch
to have fertilized
the g...
SANOBER KHAN
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.Write, for instance: "The night is full of ...
PABLO NERUDA
Do you love this world?Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green ...
MARY OLIVER
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were... CHARLES J. SHIELDS
And when we finally stood up and turned to face the world, I could feel something climbing through m... MARKUS ZUSAK I find no peace, and all my war is done,
I fear and hope; I burn and freeze like ice;
I fl...
THOMAS WYATT Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all?
I whisper it first then I sa...
LESLEY HAUGE The plants and flowers
I raised about my hut
I now surrender
To the will
Of the ...
RYōKAN Your heart beats between the palm of my hand.
Its need to be
One with me
Drips
B...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Your heart beats against the palm of my hand.
Its need to be
One with me
Drips
B...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN
So many Gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being ki...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Standing HereMy entire world far beneath
my feet, I should be filled
wit...
ELLEN HOPKINS
I would not have a god come in To shield me suddenly from sin,
And set my house of life ...
SARA TEASDALE The Invisible is moving
Softly and soothing
I feel it inside
It is you
It is my ...
RIXA WHITE The world is thinning
and the earth...it's still spinning
my world is thinning
...
SANOBER KHAN but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical
dilemma/ i havent conque...
NTOZAKE SHANGE I cry often.
I cry and cleanse my
face with my tears and
swim to the center
...
A.P. SWEET
I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery tur...
SYLVIA PLATH
I can't leave you," he says hoarsely."I can't leave you either," I say, shaking my head. "I ca...
CYNTHIA HAND
God's given me so much talent, and my height doesn't define my skill set. I believe that God... RUSSELL WILSON
The Wolf trots to and fro,The world lies deep in snow,
The raven from the birch tree flie...
HERMANN HESSE I pull on his fingers softly, tired of this talk. “I have something to tell you…”
H...
STEPHANIE LIACI
All at onceA fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,
And I am in the wilderness alone.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
How clear she shines ! How quietlyI lie beneath her guardian light;
While heaven and ear...
EMILY BRONTë
Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me.“Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego ...
SIMONE ELKELES
ROCK STATE OF MINDThe lights go out
Darkness takes over my mind
I can see only...
EVY MICHAELS
Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,<...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It is not night when I do see your face,Therefore I think I am not in the night;
Nor doth...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You’re the mayfly,' he murmurs.
And then Evan Walker kisses me.
Holding my hand across...
RICK YANCEY Hello?”
“Hey.” She sounded pissed. “What the hell happened to you tonight? Jess said th...
KODY KEPLINGER
Sure. Whatever. She’s all yours.”Daemon grinned. “That she is.”
My hand was twitc...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread sof...
W.B. YEATS
I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Sonnet LXXXI And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.
Love and pain ...
PABLO NERUDA
She’s having a party, you
Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one. 
When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen. 
My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when ... 
I look after my skin quite a lot because in this job, it can get stressful. Pimples come out! I clea... 
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web,... 
I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed. 
Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, ever... 
There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in sprin... 
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no troub... 
Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work. 