passages

photo by loveblushfever (c)

reclamation

Small things are gigantic.   A heart on fire in the middle of the ocean.  One lonely tree on a hilltop.  An old couple holding hands at the market.    A clock on the mantle counting down the moments.

I thrive on pretense and assumption, on hope and yearning.  Some corner of meager existence, where things make sense in a small way, and little things are just little things, with a spill or two along the way.

Comfortably weary and restless.  I hear there’s only so much time.  And sometimes everything just has to be slow like snow falling.  And sometimes there is no reason, just an idea.

A concentrated mediocrity.  Boiled down, reduced, reclaimed, returned.  A lifetime isn’t enough.  There’s never enough time or hunger to go all the way round.

But to need a little less.  To let in a little more.  Of the world.  Of you.  So put on your face.  And your dancing shoes.

Life waits for no one.

-loveblushfever

 

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

H. Jackson Brown Jr

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever…

Isak Dineson

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

 

  1. love the quotes,

    enjoyed your life philosophy,
    Thanks for coming to poets rally….

    please visit and comment for 18 poets and let me know after you are done.
    🙂

  2. Very true,
    Great philosophy

  3. i like like it!

  4. Life waits for no one…

    …true indeed…nicely done.

  5. This is a really good piece, and very uplifting! Thanks for the reminder to put on my face and my dancing shoes. 🙂

  6. Life waits for none.. and I liked your imagery.. the way you have recreated the scene in your words… thanks for sharing…

    ॐ नमः शिवाय
    Om Namah Shivaya
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    • amarllyis
    • December 1st, 2010

    That’s really nice. 🙂

  7. Absolutely perfect!

  8. beautiful poem 🙂

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