August 2011
4 tags
1 tag
6 tags
3 tags
2 tags
30-day poetry challenge - Day 19
Alone By Choice
Live not by the heart, it’s too quick to change;
Its fancy flies at the blink of an eye.
It takes all, and offers little in exchange.
Its whims, fleeting; its every word, a lie.
6 tags
2 tags
1 tag
5 tags
5 tags
2 tags
30-day poetry challenge - Day 18
Ode to Society
There is little hope in the hearts of men.
They find fault in virtue, glory in sin.
They grow fat with riches and vice, and then
Pray in vain for the rotting soul within.
2 tags
30-day poetry challenge - Day 17
Routine
The light has dimmed, the well is dry.
The spark is nowhere to be found.
And yet, all one can do is try
To toil and turn ill fate around.
“Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and...”
– Judith Bardwick (via its-3am-i-must-be-lonely)
3 tags
3 tags
3 tags
3 tags
1 tag
3 tags
French people having "Post-It Wars" with workers...
daily-tumbles:
You have to follow this blog, it’s amazing
2 tags
30-day poetry challenge - Day 16
Tired From Sleeping
The bed has chained me to cushions and sheets,
On my head is a crown heavy with steel.
Why close my eyes when sleep merely retreats?
Why wake, when emptiness is all I feel?
2 tags
30-day poetry challenge - Day 15
Withered
Waking from delirium and dreams
To a world of stupor - grey, cold.
Wakefulness matters not, it seems,
When life is naught but to grow old.
3 tags
5 tags
4 tags
6 tags
5 tags
6 tags
5 tags
5 tags
5 tags
3 tags
Ten Thousand Things: 3 quotes →
jimparedes:
Emptiness is in fact form when we forget the self. There’s nothing in the universe other than our self. Nothing to compare, name, or identify. When it’s the only thing there is, how can we talk about it?? - Taizan Maezumi
If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly…
7 tags
4 tags
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
8 tags
6 tags
3 tags
5 tags
2 tags
2 tags
