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You are the poem
that sticks in my throat
teaching me to whisper
with the voice of my heart. — Jessica Kristie

I build boxes
and place them at your feet,
to measure the distance
between dreams and reality. — Jessica Kristie

She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass. — Mina Loy

What if we still ride on, we two
With life for ever old yet new,
Changed not in kind but in degree,
The instant made eternity — Robert Browning

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system. — Tony Harrison

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased. — F.K. Preston

America - where we hate our
fathers, love our mothers, and
everyone is hung up on trying
to be a man — Phil Volatile

Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them. — Morgan Dragonwillow

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

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it. — William Wordsworth

I balance you
on the end of my pen.
Teetering between love
and letting go. — Jessica Kristie

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal

I die a little,
In the echo of your silence. — Jessica Kristie

Steep fall to the ground
shattering
like clay pigeons
missed
by bad shots
and unsteady hands. — Jessica Kristie

Life can be like a poem that way, with the unexpected appearing in the room, not just on the page. — Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

I haven't been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind. — Charlotte Eriksson

Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life. — Drew Myron

Careful.
The fall is quick,
steep,
and permanent. — Jessica Kristie

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life. — Jean Cocteau

For spirits like ours, freedom is consumption, transportation on beams of sun — Terrence Alonzo Craft

Do You Believe
... on this road of life
on this day
I take you
now husband and wife ... — Muse

Be Visionary ... — R.M. Engelhardt

This is my life and lovestory listen losely and hold on tight this a roller coaster hell of a ride — Patrick Cruz

I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE
AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AFTERNOONS. — Atticus Poetry

Go on down to the local palm reader,
she'll spit out exactly what you feed her
because honey, you already knew
your husband was a cheater. — Casey Renee Kiser

Poems are invisible flowers on my skin. — Sanober Khan

I've never seen beauty
so devastating
as in the lines
that trace our hope
and fall from the stars. — Jessica Kristie

The life we're given is on a thread, so wear it well. — Benny Bellamacina

We are all the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die. — George Gordon Byron

Sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone
are the dead
rattling the walls
that close us in. — Charles Bukowski

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the on less traveled by,
and that has made all the differernce — Robert Frost

Everything is connected. We see the signs every moment. There are miracles waiting to happen! — Avijeet Das

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late. — Dejan Stojanovic

Through windows,
in wishing wells,
whispering in the wind...
that's where I find you. — Jessica Kristie

In that wounded place,
buried between
my ribs and letting go,
I miss you. — Jessica Kristie

Do not grieve the gone,
For life is just a loan,
A miracle, a gift for ones who come from within,
To love and carry on. — Mira Midha

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself. — Jenim Dibie

Bridge burned from end to end,
and I don't miss you anymore.
You delivered silence
I've birthed freedom. — Jessica Kristie

Let love be the gravestone
Lying on my life. — Anna Akhmatova

I bleed to un-break you,
un-mending me.
I fall to save you...
now who will save me. — Jessica Kristie

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry. — Dejan Stojanovic

Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

For once,
engulf,
not air,
but hope.
For once,
breathe on,
a firm belief! — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips. — Jennifer Webb

You can't build a life
on another human being. We're foundations
of sand. We're Atlas buckling under the sky. — Elisabeth Hewer

Life breathes on its own without nostrils — Sandra Proto

Scent of old books a mystery; a secret port of the dreamers. — China Cancio

I need to work on me.
The me
without you. — Jessica Kristie

There are so many days
when living stops and pulls up and sits
and waits like a train on the rails. — Charles Bukowski

At first first nothing will happen to us
and later on
it will happen to us again. — Leonard Cohen

When I shut my eyes on this world I'll finally have peace. — Kevin Walker

Moments caught in time. Simple memories spread out before me. Timeless reminders of how life goes on, even when it feels as if you cannot. — Jay Long

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Birthing hope from the madness
that perches on the fence
of our once perfect
dreams. — Jessica Kristie

He calls me desperate (on my tombstone)
I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY — Eli Coppola

Pay attention, and use your imagination. — R.M. Engelhardt

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life. — D.A. Botta

You made a poet fall in love with the world. — Avijeet Das

I can't love anymore.
Except for you...
I love you so much it hurts to breathe. — Jessica Kristie

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing. — R.M. Engelhardt

Whenever life is getting tough hold on.
Don't let it get the best of you stay strong. — Laqueisha Malone

I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn.
Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger. — Susie Clevenger

I love the smell of coffee when I wake up in the morning. It gives me the awesome feeling of hope! — Avijeet Das

Sometimes we need a wise guide to peel back the ceiling of our lives to remind us that infinity never places any limits on our skies. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

You may follow the footsteps
The whole day will pass
With you going around in circles
Yet not reaching anywhere at last! — Avijeet Das

Sometimes we must gravitate towards madness before we can levitate on greatness. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off. — Kellie Elmore

On Paper
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some call it poetry
but it is just pain
on paper
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rassool jibraeel snyman (c) 2015
The Poetic Assassin — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Develop distinct habits of wreaking havoc on any stinking thinking addicted to launching mental missiles aimed at sinking your unique magic. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

Nothing is lifeless
when the moon writes its screed
on the silvern sand silence
-From the poem:The Universe In Blossom — Munia Khan

"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart's desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing — Mariam Kobras

I was just an option.
Blown easily to pieces
and offered to the sky
by the sweet laced pain
upon your lips. — Jessica Kristie