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Pushed into darkness,
the only way out was
to seek light with the
torch of hope and faith
burning in my heart


Vijaya Gowrisankar

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I said to my soul
Be still
And wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing...
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Teach them to read and write
Take them out of the dark...
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At last he beat his music out.
There lives more fait...
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Teach them how to read and write
Take them out of the ...
CHARMAINE J FORDE I see a bright
portion
under the overhead light

that shades into
darkness<...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A great ring of pure & endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart
And breaks apart...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life...
URSULA K. LE GUIN i want to be
in love with you

the same way
i am in
love with the moon SANOBER KHAN he turns to the sunlight,
And lifts her face up,
She searches for the light,
The ligh...
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BY VICKI JORDAN

It was world of vampires and demons, wher...
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There are specks of joy
Out of the darkness
Comes light KAREN HACKEL I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; ...
T.S. ELIOT Songs of the Soul

On a dark night,
Inflamed by love-longing -
O exquisite risk!...
SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ John 1:5

"Light shines into the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it
ANONYMOUS He is beauty, inside and out.
He is the silver lining in a world of darkness.
He is my lig...
MARIE LU The Weight of One Feather"


Given.
Many fear death
Because they already SUZY KASSEM I falter where I firmly trod,
And falling with my weight of cares
Upon the great world's...
ALFRED TENNYSON I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes E.E. CUMMINGS XVI
I love the handful of the earth you are.
Because of its meadows, vast as a planet,
PABLO NERUDA Now and again there's a moment,
when the heart cries aloud:
yes, I am willing to be
t...
MARY OLIVER Who was it that hurt you,
stole light out of your eyes?
Cut a hole in your heart
and ...
JOHN MARK GREEN When there is silence,
Give your voice.
When there is darkness,
Shine your light. ...
TIM FARGO It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA My eyes constantly seek
the rainbow of my dreams
and I sometimes fail
to be grateful...
VIJAYA GOWRISANKAR we must bring
our own light
to the
darkness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where ther...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI Light

That's how I feel-
like the winter-fringed
breeze might scoop
me up ...
ELLEN HOPKINS There are three lessons I would write-
Three words, as with a burning pen,
In tracings of...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Why I Wake Early

Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who made the morning
...
MARY OLIVER COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What wa...
SUZY KASSEM Riches I hold in light esteem,
And love I laugh to scorn,
And lust of fame was but a dream...
EMILY BRONTë BLACK AND WHITE


I was born into
A religion of Light,
But with so many oth...
SUZY KASSEM And I want you now
I want you now
I'll feel my heart implode
And I'm breaking out
MUSE I look up. And I am surrounded by the universe.

silence

and stars

A...
BETH REVIS And with a frenzied, 
frightened, 
anxious heart, 

she tumbled
headfir...
ABBY ROSMARIN Lay down
Your tired & weary head my friend.
We have wept too long
Night is fallin...
JOSé N. HARRIS In My Daughter's Eyes Lyrics
In my daughter's eyes I am a hero
I am strong and wise and I ...
MARTINA MCBRIDE a happy birthday

this evening, I sat by an open window
and read till the light was g...
TED KOOSER I keep my kindness in my eyes
Gently folded around my iris
Like a velvety, brown blanket...
SANOBER KHAN The way you're singing in your sleep
The way you look before you leap
The strange illusion...
DAVID LEVITHAN Heaven left a hole in your heart.

But it’s up to you to choose if that hole will be fi...
TESSA SHAFFER I hope and hoping feeds my pain
I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart
I laugh but the lau...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Let there be light! Abba! Father, let there be light!
In our dark moments we cry; let there be ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If Under fell, if Over leaped,
If death was life and Death life reaped,
Something rises fr...
SUZANNE COLLINS Gather my leaves,
Twist them into crowns
Let me be the king of your forest
Climb on m...
MICHELLE HODKIN When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heart
And your plans are upset and your world ...
HELEN STEINER RICE Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where th...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI A dream so vibrant,
A dream so blissful;
I hold it close to my heart.
In anxious nigh...
SOMYA KEDIA WHAT IS TRUTH?

Truth is not a thing
Or a concept.
It is as multidimensional
SUZY KASSEM All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER I shall now call myself;
I shall now call.
In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,
...
SRI CHINMOY Yes, my scars shape me
Today, I have learnt to cover
it with fabric made of hope,
fa...
VIJAYA GOWRISANKAR O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where the...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI Seek a sanctuary,
Respect it, as it is holy,
Walk into it with a bare mind, bare feet and...
MASTER JIN KWON When the world caves in
Still my hope will cling
To Your promise
Where my courage end...
HILLSONG Saving You

The darkness takes him over,
the sickness pulls him in;
his eyes�...
LANG LEAV To be of the Earth is to know
the restlessness of being a seed
the darkness of being pla...
JOHN SOOS You are the light in my darkness,
Restful peace for my soul.
You are the one who rescues m...
LILY G BLUNT Few Come This Way

Few come this way; not that the darkness
Deters them, but t...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,
what joy
to come falling MARY OLIVER My Country
I don't have any caps left made back home
Nor any shoes that trod your roads FATIMA BHUTTO God spreads the heavens above us like great wings
And gives a little round of deeds and days, W.B. YEATS Intoxicate me with the beauty
and breath of your soul.
Leave such imprints on my heart MELODY LEE Love entered in my heart one day
A sad, unwelcome guest.
But when it begged that it might ...
J. CALIFORNIA COOPER ...so i will greet you
in a way
all loved things
are meant to be greeted

w...
SANOBER KHAN Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
GEORGE HARRISON ROCK STATE OF MIND

The lights go out
Darkness takes over my mind
I can see only...
EVY MICHAELS How could I share the
way my heart was breaking
when my confessor
didn’t believe
ELLEN HOPKINS The Master's Sacred Knowledge.

Love is the treasure you should seek!

The grea...
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do you remember
when the earth was just a bab...
MARCUS AMAKER Pray each morning and each night.
Talk to God and be polite.
Tell Him what you're grateful...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dyi...
ALFRED TENNYSON (...) ha! what is hope? a butterfly in a box

of demons, and nothing escapes the dark
MOONSHINE NOIRE Life is hope.
Hope is faith.
Faith is believe.
Believe is possibilities.
Possibi...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Oh draw at my heart, love,
Draw till I'm gone,
That, fallen asleep, I
Still may love ...
NOVALIS For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

Seek him always wit...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Let us love like the spark
Between flint and stone
In reckless abandonment,
Promising...
JUSTIN WETCH Soul Sister

Evoking all my inner goodness
with bastions of time
I cradle your h...
MUSE If I were a flower,
humming bird would be my favourite bee
And If I were blind,
the l...
MUNIA KHAN kisses explode
when...
someone
believes in me

when my heart cries out ...
SANOBER KHAN I saw thee once - only once - years ago:
I must not say how many - but not many.
It was a ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The moon gives you light,
And the bugles and the drums give you music,
And my heart, O my ...
WALT WHITMAN The Blue Bird
from The Last Night of the Earth Poems

there’s a bluebird in my hear...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Darkness is nothing
but an opportunity
to spread light
JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ 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 We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn...
BILLY JOEL I got lost in the night, without the light
of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me PABLO NERUDA People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when t...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS The dividing line forms-fashioned from:
Dragon's tears
Missed years
Overcome fears P.C. CAST I breathe in...the silence
of my own heart
aching with tenderness
with memories..
SANOBER KHAN Through me the way into the suffering city,
Through me the way to the eternal pain,
Through ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI Show yourself to the darkness, they said, and then you will see your face."

--Nero Slyve...
ALMNEY KING Experience everything;
Times of sorrow, times of Joy.
Times of darkness, times of light. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; <...
PABLO NERUDA There's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We'll Go No More A-roving

So, we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the nigh...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I am the way into the city of woe,
I am the way into eternal pain,
I am the way to go amon...
DANTE ALIGHIERI Believe me when I say:
'Out of all those around,
she’s the best locksmith in town.' KAMAND KOJOURI Get out of my head,
You've overstayed your stay,
This head no longer can spare more though...
TANZY SAYADI

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