Our lives are long, winding roads
We never know what’s next
In a second, things explode
Leaving us utterly perplexed
But we must keep driving
Searching for light ahead
We must keep trying
To avoid the dead-ends
Never Give Up (a poem)
life
Blurry (a 6-word story)
Daily Quote: What it Means to be Alive
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.” ― Haruki Murakami
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Daily Quote: The Art of Life
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surrounding.” – Kakuzo Okakura
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Daily Quote: The Journey Never Ends
“We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.” ― Pema Chodron
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Daily Quote: Where to Find Poetry
“You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what’s in your heart.” — Carol Ann Duffy
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Daily Quote: What Music Does
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” – Plato
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Painstaking (a poem)
I’ve taken painstaking care
to avoid this moment
when the hot solar flares
take away my chance at atonement
for the crimes I’ve committed
& the lovers I’ve lost
for the criminals I’ve acquitted
& the innocent lives it cost
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Highway of Existence (a poem)
my body, dissolved in acid
is a fitting way for life’s end
terminate the contract of
my earthly stay
if you must
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Past Lifetimes (a poem)
in dreams, i tremble
before unseen forces
always at work behind
scenes & a screen
of smoke that masks their faces
but not beaming eyes
that stare from shadowed corners
of my brain
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