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Mister Bent · 06-02-2010, 04:14 PM

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

- Robert McCloskey

2myladyblue · 06-02-2010, 05:28 PM

"Either the rights to live and to die are both sacred, or neither is." ~Treska Lindsey

2myladyblue · 06-02-2010, 07:17 PM

your face crept into that space between my reflex and my resolve
kinda like the crevice you don't notice
til it takes down the damn wall.

and now we are sitting in the window
your forehead is red-hot and touching my knee
and I am checking my pulse,
making sure it hasn't quit on me.

and I'm sorry if you think that I knew
what I was doing
I guess what I do best is look like I'm in control
but tonight, tonight, I am a soft and untamed thing
and I will wrap my breath around you until your exhale comes clean.
I am checking my pulse.
I am checking my pulse.

you are the buried penny at the bottom of the pool
so I guess that makes me the fool diving deep for you
I'll stick you in my pocket
all shiny, all precious, and all not mine
a hidden, forbidden treasure
baby, you're the worst kind.

cause underneath the surface, all things loom larger
so I'm searching for your edges
to fish you up, ship you up out of the water
and you are that sweet wish that she's thrown
I would have caught you in the air, girl, had I known.

and now the space between these bodies
surpasses the sum of its parts
so I am crawling in-between these moments
balancing words hoping I don't get stuck.
and I was just thinking 'distraction'
now I'm thinking distraction's a wonderful thing
cause I was casually splashing
and now I'm a casualty slowly sinking.

cause in hot water, my brain just kinda puckers up
and I'm drowning jaws wide open now cause my mouth
it just won't seem to shut.
and you might just be a shiny thing
but you are the shining thing that I am pursuing
and when I said "you talk too much"
it was cause there was stuff I'd rather you'd have been doing.

and then you take my breath
I say "hey, I need that to get back to the top"
"but we're beautiful down here", you say
"you know, girl
the world won't stop".
and we are sitting in the window
your forehead is red-hot and touching my knee
and I am checking my pulse
making sure it hasn't quit on me.
I am just checking my pulse
making sure it hasn't quit on me.
I am just checking my pulse
making sure she hasn't quit on me
yet.

Blade · 06-02-2010, 07:49 PM

The greatest thing you can give your children are roots.....and wings....

JakeTulane · 06-02-2010, 08:48 PM

"My words rained over you, stroking you.
A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of your body.
I go so far as to think that you own the universe.
I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells,
dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses.
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."

- Pablo Neruda

Soon · 06-02-2010, 11:14 PM

Wish

Just your hot heart,
nothing more.

My Paradise, a field,
no nightingales,
no strings,
a river, discrete,
and a little fountain.

Without the spurs,
of the wind, in the branches,
without the star,
that wants to be leaf.

An enormous light
that will be
the glow
of the Other,
in a field of broken gazes.

A still calm
where our kisses,
sonorous circles
of echoes,
will open, far-off.

And your hot heart,
nothing more.

JakeTulane · 06-03-2010, 06:16 AM

"They are all gone into the world of light,
And I alone sit lingering here;
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear."
~ Henry Vaughan, from Silex Scintillans 'They are all gone'

JakeTulane · 06-03-2010, 06:17 AM

"For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins."
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne

JakeTulane · 06-03-2010, 06:18 AM

Remembrance is a golden chain
Death tries to break,
but all in vain.
To have, to love, and then to part
Is the greatest sorrow of one's heart.
The years may wipe out many things
But some they wipe out never.
Like memories of those happy times
When we were all together.
~ Author Unknown

Toofrufru · 06-03-2010, 06:52 AM

Contentment makes poor men rich.
Discontent makes rich men poor.
--Benjamin
Franklin

UofMfan · 06-03-2010, 07:31 AM

He is one of my favorites, ranks up there with Neruda. I actually read this one the day before yesterday.

Quote:

Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

Wish

Just your hot heart,
nothing more.

My Paradise, a field,
no nightingales,
no strings,
a river, discrete,
and a little fountain.

Without the spurs,
of the wind, in the branches,
without the star,
that wants to be leaf.

An enormous light
that will be
the glow
of the Other,
in a field of broken gazes.

A still calm
where our kisses,
sonorous circles
of echoes,
will open, far-off.

And your hot heart,
nothing more.

Spirit Dancer · 06-03-2010, 07:49 AM

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them. -- Marquis De Sade

Spirit Dancer · 06-03-2010, 07:50 AM

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage. -- William Shakespeare

Spirit Dancer · 06-03-2010, 07:51 AM

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. -- William Shakespeare

always2late · 06-03-2010, 07:55 AM

"The wishbone will never replace the backbone." - Will Henry

Hack · 06-03-2010, 08:14 AM

Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys
- Andre Gide

Soon · 06-03-2010, 08:24 AM

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Diva · 06-03-2010, 09:41 AM

Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.

~Eileen Mayhew

Diva · 06-03-2010, 09:42 AM

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

~Golda Meir

purepisces · 06-03-2010, 09:57 AM

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~ Ghandi

06-02-2010, 04:14 PM	#2441
Mister Bent Senior Member How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: . Posts: 2,905 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,151 Thanked 5,825 Times in 1,722 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” - Robert McCloskey __________________ Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

06-02-2010, 05:28 PM	#2442
2myladyblue Member How Do You Identify?: Goddess Preferred Pronoun?: ...oui? Relationship Status: Worshipped Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Winterpeg, Manisnowba, The Great White North Posts: 430 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,255 Thanked 455 Times in 186 Posts Rep Power: 90765	"Either the rights to live and to die are both sacred, or neither is." ~Treska Lindsey __________________ "i believe people are see-through if you hold em up to the light i believe people are enlightening if you plug em in right" ~ alix olson "All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for." ~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

06-02-2010, 07:17 PM	#2443
2myladyblue Member How Do You Identify?: Goddess Preferred Pronoun?: ...oui? Relationship Status: Worshipped Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Winterpeg, Manisnowba, The Great White North Posts: 430 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,255 Thanked 455 Times in 186 Posts Rep Power: 90765	checking my pulse ~ alix olsen your face crept into that space between my reflex and my resolve kinda like the crevice you don't notice til it takes down the damn wall. and now we are sitting in the window your forehead is red-hot and touching my knee and I am checking my pulse, making sure it hasn't quit on me. and I'm sorry if you think that I knew what I was doing I guess what I do best is look like I'm in control but tonight, tonight, I am a soft and untamed thing and I will wrap my breath around you until your exhale comes clean. I am checking my pulse. I am checking my pulse. you are the buried penny at the bottom of the pool so I guess that makes me the fool diving deep for you I'll stick you in my pocket all shiny, all precious, and all not mine a hidden, forbidden treasure baby, you're the worst kind. cause underneath the surface, all things loom larger so I'm searching for your edges to fish you up, ship you up out of the water and you are that sweet wish that she's thrown I would have caught you in the air, girl, had I known. and now the space between these bodies surpasses the sum of its parts so I am crawling in-between these moments balancing words hoping I don't get stuck. and I was just thinking 'distraction' now I'm thinking distraction's a wonderful thing cause I was casually splashing and now I'm a casualty slowly sinking. cause in hot water, my brain just kinda puckers up and I'm drowning jaws wide open now cause my mouth it just won't seem to shut. and you might just be a shiny thing but you are the shining thing that I am pursuing and when I said "you talk too much" it was cause there was stuff I'd rather you'd have been doing. and then you take my breath I say "hey, I need that to get back to the top" "but we're beautiful down here", you say "you know, girl the world won't stop". and we are sitting in the window your forehead is red-hot and touching my knee and I am checking my pulse making sure it hasn't quit on me. I am just checking my pulse making sure it hasn't quit on me. I am just checking my pulse making sure she hasn't quit on me yet. __________________ "i believe people are see-through if you hold em up to the light i believe people are enlightening if you plug em in right" ~ alix olson "All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for." ~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

06-02-2010, 11:14 PM	#2446
Soon Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: attached Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: . Posts: 6,896 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,046 Thanked 13,094 Times in 3,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Federico García Lorca Wish Just your hot heart, nothing more. My Paradise, a field, no nightingales, no strings, a river, discrete, and a little fountain. Without the spurs, of the wind, in the branches, without the star, that wants to be leaf. An enormous light that will be the glow of the Other, in a field of broken gazes. A still calm where our kisses, sonorous circles of echoes, will open, far-off. And your hot heart, nothing more.

06-03-2010, 06:16 AM	#2447
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	For My Grandma. "They are all gone into the world of light, And I alone sit lingering here; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear." ~ Henry Vaughan, from Silex Scintillans 'They are all gone'

06-02-2010, 07:49 PM	#2444
Blade Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: TG Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: once in a while someone amazing comes along...and here I am! Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Down on the farm Posts: 5,501 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,855 Thanked 14,415 Times in 4,058 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	The greatest thing you can give your children are roots.....and wings....

06-02-2010, 08:48 PM	#2445
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"My words rained over you, stroking you. A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of your body. I go so far as to think that you own the universe. I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." - Pablo Neruda

06-03-2010, 06:17 AM	#2448
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered is grief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins." ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne

06-03-2010, 06:18 AM	#2449
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	Remembrance is a golden chain Death tries to break, but all in vain. To have, to love, and then to part Is the greatest sorrow of one's heart. The years may wipe out many things But some they wipe out never. Like memories of those happy times When we were all together. ~ Author Unknown

06-03-2010, 06:52 AM	#2450
Toofrufru Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: Ms as in Ms Fru to you Relationship Status: Not the Marrying kind! Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Sunny Florida Posts: 172 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 95 Thanked 173 Times in 77 Posts Rep Power: 336	Contentment makes poor men rich. Discontent makes rich men poor. --Benjamin Franklin

06-03-2010, 07:49 AM	#2452
Spirit Dancer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Complex but Tender Preferred Pronoun?: ~Ma`am~ Relationship Status: Shotgun Rider Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Following the red road Posts: 4,519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,304 Thanked 12,913 Times in 3,466 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	*There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them. -- Marquis De Sade* __________________ “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” Judy Garland

06-03-2010, 07:50 AM	#2453
Spirit Dancer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Complex but Tender Preferred Pronoun?: ~Ma`am~ Relationship Status: Shotgun Rider Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Following the red road Posts: 4,519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,304 Thanked 12,913 Times in 3,466 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage. -- William Shakespeare __________________ “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” Judy Garland

06-03-2010, 07:51 AM	#2454
Spirit Dancer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Complex but Tender Preferred Pronoun?: ~Ma`am~ Relationship Status: Shotgun Rider Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Following the red road Posts: 4,519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,304 Thanked 12,913 Times in 3,466 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. -- William Shakespeare __________________ “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” Judy Garland

06-03-2010, 07:55 AM	#2455
always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"The wishbone will never replace the backbone." - Will Henry __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

06-03-2010, 08:14 AM	#2456
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06-03-2010, 08:24 AM	#2457
Soon Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: attached Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: . Posts: 6,896 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,046 Thanked 13,094 Times in 3,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Shakespeare's Macbeth Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

06-03-2010, 09:41 AM	#2458
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. ~Eileen Mayhew

06-03-2010, 09:42 AM	#2459
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. ~Golda Meir

06-03-2010, 09:57 AM	#2460
purepisces Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Just a girl in love with the world Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Right here, right now Posts: 604 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,477 Thanked 1,607 Times in 491 Posts Rep Power: 9710905	The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~ Ghandi __________________ Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros