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It is really this that makes death so hard - curiosity unsatisfied. — Beryl Markham

The only cities were of ice, bergs with cores of beryl, blue gems within white gems, that some said gave off an odor of almonds. — Annie Proulx

My Heart
My heart has so many scars
you could read it like braille. — Beryl Dov

Nietzsche [10w]
Zarathustra's high-wire act is over;
the circus has left town. — Beryl Dov

Wisdom is Awakening
The wise man wakes up and takes nothing for granted ~
even waking up. — Beryl Dov

Show Up [10w]
I've waited for you all my life ~
show up already! — Beryl Dov

I love you all, even those I don't
particularly like. That's you, Beryl. — Derek Landy

The Reader [10w]
A poem cannot be greater than the mind examining it. — Beryl Dov

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it. — Beryl Markham

First Day at Harvard [10w]
Smartest kid in the room
walks into room of competitors. — Beryl Dov

Jesus Christ, Is That A Puppet? [10w]
The Bible performed entirely by puppets would produce more converts. — Beryl Dov

The Real Skinny behind the Big 3 Conspiracy Theories — Beryl Dov

Disneyland: The happiest place on earth...
...for its Board of Directors and stockholders. — Beryl Dov

Good Egg [10w]
Picking up the pieces is the responsibilty of the egg. — Beryl Dov

When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes. — Beryl Bainbridge

Life's Tragedy
Making a living and making a life
are at odds. — Beryl Dov

Truthful vs. Honest
To salvage our relationships we cannot always be truthful,
but we shouldn't be anything less than honest. — Beryl Dov

Stranger [10w]
Discover your lover every day as you would a stranger. — Beryl Dov

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error? — Beryl Markham

Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice — Beryl Markham

Texas [10w]
Every Texan has a project and every picnic has fire-ants. — Beryl Dov

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different. — Beryl Bainbridge

Telekinetic Poker Players
You can tell telekinetic poker-players are bluffing ~
they raise you. — Beryl Dov

Each humid, tropic day is stillborn, and does not breathe, however lustily pregnant the night that gave it birth. — Beryl Markham

Love in the Afterlife [10w]
Maybe I'll love you in the afterlife.
This life, fuhgeddaboudit. — Beryl Dov

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior, — Beryl Bainbridge

Raise Your Hand [10w]
Raise your hand to answer questions,
not to hit children. — Beryl Dov

New [10w] + {Couplet}
Poetry is fashion, its new arrivals
are simply just revivals. — Beryl Dov

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails. — Beryl Bainbridge

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin. — Beryl Bainbridge

Speculator [10w]
A speculator's eyes light up alternately by greed and concupiscence. — Beryl Dov

Idiots vs. Fools [10w]
Idiots listen to other's bullshit;
fools listen to their own. — Beryl Dov

Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead. — Beryl Markham

Muse [10w]
Poetry's a collaboration with your muse.
Silence!
Let her speak. — Beryl Dov

Mom Memorial Haiku [1]
I feel my mom so
much alive in me that there's
not even room for me. — Beryl Dov

You never possess a cat; you are allowed to be in a cat's life, which, of course, is a privilege. — Beryl Reid

Relationship Haiku
Friendship needs just two.
Hot relationships needs three.
But bitches can't count. — Beryl Dov

I learned the tyranny of figures before I knew the value of a pound. — Beryl Markham

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. — Beryl Markham

Nostalgia [10w]
Nostalgia is a time machine
set to your perfect past. — Beryl Dov

Georgia State Motto
Wisdom, justice, and moderation.
If the heat don't kill you the stupidity will. — Beryl Dov

All the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it. — Beryl Markham

THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET — Arthur Conan Doyle

Sublime Beauty
When I shut my eyes, I can move mountains.
When I open them, mountains can move me. — Beryl Dov

Success breeds confidence. — Beryl Markham

Love is Beautiful [10w]
Even an average woman becomes beautiful when she's in love. — Beryl Dov

Poetry as Symphony [10w]
Mind is orchestra,
words are instruments,
the poem,
a symphony. — Beryl Dov

Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy. — Beryl Markham

Rooftop Poetry
Sing poetry from rooftops
like a muzzein' s call for prayer. — Beryl Dov

The Economics of Truth
In the popular marketplace, truth is cheap
because its supply always exceeds its demand. — Beryl Dov

Pearl II [10w]
If the world's your pearl then you're an empty shell. — Beryl Dov

Foodiedom
Never in the history of foodiedom
has food at a newly discoveredrestaurant
tasted as good on the second visit. — Beryl Dov

I am incapable of a profound remark on the workings of Destiny — Beryl Markham

Nothing to Lose [10w]
Never underestimate the danger of men with nothing to lose. — Beryl Dov

R-o-l-a-i-d-s: How do you spell relief? [10w]
J-a-c-k-i-n-go-f-f. — Beryl Dov

Nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age. — Beryl Bainbridge

If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse. — Beryl Markham

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work — Beryl Markham

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought. — Beryl Markham

Clairol: Does she or doesn't she...
...take it up the ass. — Beryl Dov

Rub It In {Couplet}
You were right, I was wrong;
how often will you repeat this song? — Beryl Dov

God's Doorbell [10w]
Earth is God's doorbell,
unfortunately, half the time
nobody's home. — Beryl Dov

Depression is Genetic [10w]
Depression is genetic, specifically the product of another's cruel genetics. — Beryl Dov

How to Anesthetize theM asses [10w]
Build more shopping malls and get rid of the internet. — Beryl Dov

Garden [10w]
A garden is a poem
written with flowers on earth. — Beryl Dov

How 'We' Assume the Throne [10w]
We've become royalty
when the first-person-singular leaps
into the first-person-plural. — Beryl Dov

Growing Pains [10w]
Man's growing pains end promptly at the time of death. — Beryl Dov

Love is a Yardstick [10w]
Love is a yardstick by which we can measure our heartbreak. — Beryl Dov

A fine job of work and a fine colt. Shall I reward you or Coquette - or both? — Beryl Markham

Familiar vs. Strange [10w]
The sexiest part of strangeness is its most familiar quality. — Beryl Dov

Satirists [10w]
I do best what satirists have always done ~
make enemies. — Beryl Dov

Heart on Your Sleeve [10w]
If you wear your heart on your sleeve, don't sneeze. — Beryl Dov

Atop their gleaming backs the jockeys look like gaudy baubles, secured with strings. They bob up and down, they rise, lean forward, then settle again. — Beryl Markham

McDonald's: I'm loving it!...
...because feeding my family healthy food is not worth more than $4. — Beryl Dov

Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view. — Beryl Bainbridge

Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation. — Beryl Bender Birch

Fix
If it ain't broke, fix it ~
because anything in this world
can be improved. — Beryl Dov

Second Chances [10w]
Every time we go full circle
it's a new circle. — Beryl Dov

The character of a dwelling, like that of a man, grows slowly. — Beryl Markham

Rules
Rules,
like hearts,
were meant to be broken — Beryl Dov

[I]t is no good anticipating regrets. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday. — Beryl Markham

If you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much space! — Beryl Broekman

Multiple Dimensions of Love [10w]
Make time and space for the multiple dimensions of love. — Beryl Dov

Lourdes
Poetry is my Lourdes ~
a spiritual oasis where I come to heal
in the divine power of words. — Beryl Dov

Religion is Existential GPS
The mind needs religious myths to navigate the world,
or it gets lost in its own sterility. — Beryl Dov

Lies vs. Truth [10w]
Lies are more credible than truth because they are nuanced. — Beryl Dov

Mrs MacFarley called the valley the Glen. She called the light at early evening the gloaming. She liked to go Roaming in the Gloaming in the Glen. — Beryl Bainbridge

(On vultures
... those false but democratic mourners at every casual bier ... — Beryl Markham

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood. — Beryl Bainbridge

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work. — Beryl Markham

Choose Your Tears
If we cry over spilled milk,
what tears will be left over for spilled blood? — Beryl Dov

The sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things. — Beryl Markham

The mechanistic age impended over an horizon not hostile, but silently indifferent. — Beryl Markham

How to Score a Promotion [10w]
First make yourself irreplaceable,
then tell your boss you're leaving. — Beryl Dov

Separation of mind and body, that's been around since the Greeks. — Beryl Bender Birch

Horticulture ]10w]
I am an advocate of horticulture and higher-education for sluts. — Beryl Dov

I just want to let you know that I love you all. Even those of you that I don't like; that's you Beryl. — Derek Landy

(This place) presumed to be a town then, but was hardly more than a word under a tin roof. — Beryl Markham

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky. — Beryl Bainbridge

Spite
If we can't quite live beyond our bodies,
we should, as a matter of spite, live beyond our income. — Beryl Dov