December 2011
30 posts
If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.
Life changing experience. HELP.
“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves—and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”
Walking down the streets of downtown and finding the “homeless” sitting hopelessly against the walls begging for money, food, or whatever it is so that can keep their...
E.E Cumming
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting” - E.E. Cumming
In a world where everyone seeks to find out who they are, fighting countless battles not just to seek out themselves but also to find out what everybody else means to them...
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune but omitted, and the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and mesires. On such a full sea are we now afloat and we must take the current when it serves or lose the ventures before us”.
How to make a poet?
poetdreamer:
Sift out a cup of Creativity Mix in half a cup of Language Half a cup of Obsession with words A heavy dose of reading Bake until it takes up a pen naturally
Now break his/her heart: Poetry.
It sucks to know that.
It sucks to know that you can’t do anything to help all those that are in-need. I can honestly say, I’ve NEVER actually done anything to impact another persons’ life and that’s just sad.
Maybe it’s time to turn on my humanity again.