Today is not only the end of February but it is, apparently, the end of summer down under.
I'm not really sure where all of that time has gone. I have been out of university since mid-November and yet time has passed and my second - and final - semester will start soon. The whirlwind of school and work will continue and suddenly my dad will be here ( Read more... )

There is a story of a Zen master whose monastery and surrounding countryside were threatened by the savage destructiveness of a barbaric war lord. Everyone but the old Zen master fled. When the war lord heard that the old monk had not left he was infuriated and came to confront the master. With drawn sword he said to the old man, 'Why haven't you ( Read more... )

'Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in Hell ( Read more... )

I am referring to Piet Hein, a Danish mathematician, scientist, inventor, and poet who created grooks, which is the name he made up for the short, rhyming, gnomic poems that he created so generously. There are 10,000 of them. They contain his whole philosophy, in manageable chunks. They have been compared to Biblical proverbs. Hein, not a modest ( Read more... )

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One step achieved today. And as Ralph Waldo Emmerson said, ""Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense ( Read more... )

Oh, do not tell the Priest our plight,
Or he would call it a sin;
But we have been out in the woods all night,
A-conjuring Summer in!
And we bring you good news by word of mouth -
Good news for cattle and corn -
Now is the Sun come up from the south,
With Oak, and Ash, and Thorn!
~ "A Tree Song", Rudyard Kipling
Today is the first of May, a time ( Read more... )

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand." ~James Rasmussen, Nightworld: Secret Vampire, L.J. Smith

I was with my friend Ashton in Umeda's Kinokuniya bookstore after getting an amazing haircut at a lovely hair salon (Studio New York for anyone interested) and I shockingly found a copy ( Read more... )

The Optimist Creed ( Read more... )

This man should need no introduction considering he is quite well known in America so there is a good possibility you've read one of his poems in your English class at some point in time, probably his famous citing of Paul Revere's ride:
Listen, my children, and you shall hear ( Read more... )

♥ Poetry Meme ♥

Stolen from josephineisevil's LJ!

When you see this, post your favorite poem in your journal.


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