Rooting Through Stiff, Dog-Eared Poetry Books

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Rooting through stiff, dog-eared poetry booksAttempting to absorb, not so much memorizeI want to know the words as they float byI’m closing my eyes, another mental disguise Where are the secrets hidden in the pagesUnofficial degrees & pedigrees / nuance of thoughtTomes stacked upon every available surfaceI’m mesmerized; but know …

Chasing The Mailman Down The Road

Photo by Ylanite Koppens on <a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/letters-and-an-eyeglass-on-table-1809342/" rel="nofollow">Pexels.com</a> Chasing the mailman down the road I must get my thoughts out of town Reload; poetess vixen’s got to know She’s hot - turning my lust into a frown I’m fixin’ to let the world in on my secret But they’ve got ahold of my opportunity Chances …

Walking Down Stolen Streets

Photo by Michele Raffoni on Pexels.com Walking down stolen streets A mere unheralded man Always feeling a step behind Unsure of my role in His cosmic plan Listening to Bratmobile on suburban radio Transmitting beyond the old, oak trees Hidden from ivory towers rented by the hour Everything they don’t want you to see Down …

A Boy & His Ego

Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com A boy & his egoSmall minded & feeling inferiorBut taking his dick in his handExposing his brashness on the exterior A man & his fearHenchmen telling him he’s been crossedSo he sends others off to war& another generation thus lost A people & their hatePurposely misguided from God’s wordAll …

I’m Getting Old

OMG! I'm getting old I'm actively searching For the edited version Methodically perching Watching their content Preserving young minds Cultivating the innocence For you can never rewind  

The Secret Gathering Of Words

Photo by Maria Orlova on Pexels.com The secret gathering of wordsA quiet morning routineThe most dangerous are the most thoughtfulSteering us away from the machine Jotting out undisciplined thoughtConglomerations in a vast arrayWhere the hell did I put my coffee?What a way to start the day

Rubbing Their Fingers Over The Stereo Knob

Photo by Victoria Borodinova on Pexels.com Rubbing their fingers over the stereo knobThe frequencies distorted on the airwavesKings of the new world & thus apocalypticSearching for something more pragmatic to crave These technocrats with no concept of realityTasking - without offering an alternate fateDemanding citizens for homages to be digitalWith no power to control - …

I Didn’t Mean To Get Too Personal

Photo by Francesca Zama on Pexels.com I didn’t mean to get too personalI merely noticed your exposed slipMy thoughts took me to uncharted watersThinking of us - alone- a subtle skinny dip An abandoned wedding gown crumpledThe satin too white against your laceI didn’t know what I was supposed to feelThough I could see the …

Needing A Path To Feel A Little Less

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Needing a path to feel a little less Once tried to be a stoic practitioner Couldn’t get a grip on these emotions Stuck being an unconventional petitioner So I offered my body in sacrifice Self-medicating made me kinda fat Trying to pray my love away But insurance doesn’t pay …

Drinking From Chipped China

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Drinking from chipped chinaA teetered walk, almost a slow wambleA shy smirk; memories from opening nightCaste members & the entire ensembleThe lights have been extinguishedDark; quoting lines from beyond the pageAn echoed whisper of what we once heardNow absurdly tiptoeing back onstage

Junky Little Notes

Photo by brotiN biswaS on Pexels.com Junky little notesThrowaway lines on the postmodern stageCultural fragmentation in empty streetsTruth whittled away on an evaporating page The disillusionment of an appropriated lifeWhile the world’s on fire; downright ablazeThe American Dream sold off to the lowest bidderFeeling dissociative in these recent raucous days Our dishonest & unaccountable governmentAre …

Unsettled First Thing In The Morning

Unsettled first thing in the morning How to thrive when life doesn’t provide hope Quiet moments don’t mean easy moments Free falling from the scripted tropes Blinking to adjust your diminishing vision Blood pressure rising with the kettle’s scream Needing caffeine’s chemical reaction To remove myself from this waking dream Deep fatigue pressing down on …

Skipping & Trying To Dodge This Oppressive Heat

Skipping & trying to dodge this oppressive heat Dreaming I’m far away on the distant shore A hundred years ago with sand burning my feet I wish to be scantily clad, sipping a daiquiri & nothing more

Believing In The Subtle Power Of Aggregation

Photo by Mesut u00e7iu00e7en on Pexels.com Believing in the subtle power of aggregation Absorbing the world around ourselves bit by bit Combining positive elements out of modern strife Breaking into a smile; for that’s where the sunshine sits Mixing dreams with the desirous contents of our souls Letting go of expectations might let our thoughts …

Prolapsed Epiphanies When We’ve Gone Straight

Photo by Dmax Tran on Pexels.com Prolapsed epiphanies when we’ve gone straightBlaming our mothers when castigation is on othersReturning to Eden & those Lost Children so feralMost of us would remain cultivated if given the chance Palpitations & related systemic hateCandied apples lacerated with the Poison PenSealed with Judas’ kiss & ceremonial waxSlipped a pill …

Unpublishable Dirges & Ardent Drivel

Photo by Michael koneckiy on Pexels.com Unpublishable dirges & ardent drivel Line the dirty pages of my notepads Thirty odd years of erratic confessions Safe to say, this isn’t a passing fad Not some clichéd, bedeviled artist Just a clumsy, undereducated hack Attuned with genuine life experience & the scars of authenticity on my back …

High-Waisted Lycra So Taut

Photo by Dziana Hasanbekava on Pexels.com High-waisted lycra so tautI can’t help but stareMaking out the embroidery beneathOf my eyes, she’s very aware ‘Stop being such a creep’Coffee spilt; a blush she plainly seesA laugh & a kiss on my creekDon’t know why she still puts up with me

Overcast Navy Sailing Away

Overcast Navy sailing away Pull up your trousers (black silk) Your stay here has been cut short Prominent sundresses & of that ilk Humid weather slowing me down Manicured hands releasing winds to blow Settle into your newly structured mind We never asked you to row so slow Not listening to rumors on the deckplates …

Your Futile Attempt To Transform

Photo by Becerra Govea Photo on Pexels.com Your futile attempt to transformA goddess into a mere mistressStripping her of all her powerAssuaging your deceitful distress Misguided pleasures of your sinNot connected to her sainted statureFallible notions of mediocrityDirectly reflecting your soul’s fracture Needing revenge for your inadequacyThoughts forever lost under her petticoatIn the end, you’re …

Doing My Best To Survive Each Day

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Doing my best to survive each dayI know that sounds melodramaticModernity is a soul-crushing endeavorWhere success & happiness aren’t automatic The charts are filled out into marginsUnpronounceable pills prescribed to the gillsI used to be adequately sociableBut now I’m weirdly a buzzkill Psyhosomatic stamped on the back pagesHigh-functioning, so …

Dudley-Do-Right Making Eyes At Natasha

Photo by Nigel Nyumbu on Pexels.com Dudley-Do-Right making eyes at NatashaCounty Mountie on the lookout for the banditMr. Right bringing the Crown and lubeShe’s suspicious; not how she planned it Canada — the land ice was bornRocky, Bullwinkle & Boris in shocked disbeliefNatasha Fatale now a naturalized citizenLying on a bearskin rug in only a …

She’s Someone I Don’t Even Know

Photo by Yick Chong Lam on Pexels.com She’s someone I don’t even knowBut I’m discovering I have a crushCautious as to refrain from eye contactDiscomfort in knowing her beauty could make me blush But she doesn’t know I existTrying to uncover the reasons as to whyNo interest in any eternal ramificationsLet me be, I’m just …

Their Nickle Pulps Penned Within Textbook’s Seams

Photo by alleksana on Pexels.com Their nickel pulps penned within textbook’s seamsReading while we drink coffee in tight white teesAdolescent delusions out there on Atlantic beachesDown where the boardwalks are supposed to be Vapid notes & mass produced sentimentsBasic thought — quickest way to fill the pageGet another chapbook out on the sales floorCatch the …

Let’s Normalize Matrons Flashing

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Let’s normalize matrons flashingI fancy the unexpected & a little brashShe gets my eyes swirling & I’m lightheadedFully transfixed; my heart’s going to crash I can’t help but stare at her dancer’s legsMy eyes keep placing them in second positionThe way they move without effortMy pulse quickens; a love …

Modern Emotion With Multiple Stimulation Points

Modern emotion with multiple stimulation points Culmination of heritage & the soulful legacies Numbing dreams of suburban legends & reduced sense Homemade cocktails in vials & pill popping heresies Jagged breaths & serpentine intimacies Transformed beyond affinity in stoic realms Terrestrially cute no longer carrying favor Fickle bodies not equipped to so easily overwhelm Re-sorting …

I’ve Lost An Inch Or Two Of Height

I’ve lost an inch or two of height Dark hair giving in to the grey Never thought I was particularly handsome These days, I can’t get out of my own way Thoughts aren’t equating to this handwritten scrawl Failure of evidence that my soul’s still alive Inability to get beyond the struggle Blank pages making …

I Still Love These Bombshells

Photo by Maria Orlova on Pexels.com Eternal love to patriotic bombshells My ammunition in a pinup fantasy Flirtatious words & risqué photographs Keeping me company when out to sea   Saucy words to keep the soul alive A touch of reality when days get strange A distraction from inevitable demons The anchor when they’re down …

Quiet Rumpus Of The Tea Leaves

Photo by Nick Bondarev on Pexels.com Quiet rumpus of the of tea leavesIn the comfort of a former beauty queenSly notes pondered upon the pageSuddenly relapsed into a shroud of velveteen

Listening To Wollstonecraft On The Radio

Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.com Listening to Wollstonecraft on the radio“Don’t turn that dial!”, that’s what the DJ saidNot tied to any system; I’m still analogI’m dangerous; so the advertisers pled Hereditary responsibility to the common goodTherefore I don’t believe what I’ve been taughtI see y’all got opinions, from your suburban thrones& these school systems …

Navigating The Quiet Pains

Photo by Nothing Ahead on Pexels.com Navigating the quiet pains The darkness while everyone else sleeps Back-cataloged memories Feeling small with embarrassment The horrors at 3 a.m. I can’t help but be awake Each misstep uniquely Dewey decimal’d Precise reoccurring nightmares Each of my public imperfections We didn’t have the proper words back then Only …

Cold Coffee & A Stash Of Lost Dreams

Photo by Lu00e9o Gilmant on Pexels.com Cold coffee & a stash of lost dreamsA distant memory of those rail yardsBut we weren’t ourselves with honestyNot the renegades or anything that hard Images of what we might yet becomeGrabbing self-regard before it fadesDestroying their notions of modernismReturning to polka-dots & dark shades We all have our …

Ripped T-shirts & the Lure of the Future

Ripped T-shirts & the lure of the future I can’t stop thinking of her like that Abnormal psychological girl in the modern world She walks on by, I fumble trying to tip my hat Simple adoration eclipsing legitimate respect Her runes worn smooth by the years of betrayal & weather Legends of distinctive markings gone …

Songwriting On The Front Porch Steps

Songwriting on the front porch steps When everyone else is out in town Clearing a cluttered mind slowly Watching the passive rain coming down Raincoats do little to lighten the mood So we stay away from the elements Waiting for drier days to participate Shore leave was no more than an accident The winds foretell …

Even Through All The Mire

Photo by Markus Spiske on Pexels.com Even through all the mireI still believe in sunshine & rainbowsGod’s gift to all the peopleThe Promise from a long time ago The negative headlines dampen my spiritsTheir evil reflecting through leaded glassBut I shall not be tempted to hateI’ve chosen to survive; I’ve chosen to pass Insecurity masquerading …

She’s Got That All-American Smile

She’s got that All-American smile Tiny white tank & rose-colored glasses Down to Earth - gotta love juicy peaches Finding her irresistible- playful sasses Midnight releases you from logical restraints The deliberate unclasping of your retro garters Trying to be the gentleman this tux suggests But with your teasing, it just makes it harder I’m …

The Winter Is Too Warm

The winter is too warm But it’s too cold for tanlines The beach not quite deserted But I think that’s just fine I could use some freedom But you’d just call that semantics Splitting hairs when I’d rather Be engaging you in some bedroom antics You’d blush and slap my cheek But that’s mere foreplay …

I’m Supposed To Be Embarrassed By Floridian Winters

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I’m supposed to be embarrassed by Floridian winters Somehow downhearted by this temperate heat The way we can wear summer clothes While y’all are scraping ice off the streets But like how I’m not wearing a down parka I’m not sure how there can be this much sweat I’m not …

The Winter Nights Have Been Rough

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com The winter nights have been roughLeaving you with dreams of latitudesFreeze warnings when already coldUnfavorable forecast sounding rather rude Its tough when the temps plummetFeeling victim to strange cosmic collusionsBut don’t fret, it’ll be 77℉ Thursday& we’ll be suffering from nipple confusion

Persistent Chants In The Winter Breeze

Photo by Suzy Hazelwood on Pexels.com Persistent chants in the Winter breezeThoughts of her beauty & I start to wheezeI wish to taste her freshly bathed skinThrough all the heartache, I’d do it all againFor she’s still the one to knock me to my knees

I Can’t Write With This Cluttered Mind

Photo by Sindre Stru00f8m on Pexels.com I can’t write with this cluttered mindToo many tabs pulling at my attentionStructures of thought too often recedeFailing me when I most need comprehension I’m tired of dreaming of the love I wantI’m tired of writing peace line by lineWhere do we find a comforting solaceLasting longer than the …

With The Chill Of Winter Settling In

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com With the chill of winter settling in The horizon proves a coming storm I convince her we need to strip naked And cuddle to remain warm Preparing for the long, cold season Always keeping her flesh within reach Needing her to bundle me up Never mind we’re down on …

Listening To These Winter Winds

Photo by Ekaterina Astakhova on Pexels.com Listening to these Winter winds I sure miss kissing your ruby lips I’m cold these days; alone Dreaming of holding your naked hips That’s where my hands need to be Memories of your perfect back arched Seeing the outline of your love Leaves my mouth permanently parched

A Decade…

Thank you to everyone who has stopped by to say hello and support me. I know I’ve been MIA lately, but I’m still here!

Philistines!

I’m Feeling Messy These Days

I’m feeling messy these days Allowing myself to know my emotional state Without any guilt attached to my depression Yet still filled with anxiety & hate They told me to just get over it I received a letter by standard post They said it's not service related I think that’s what hurt the most My …

Banned Poets Arrested For Subversive Thought

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Banned poets arrested for subversive thoughtAre we the worst kind of panhandlers in this late stage capitalism?Peddling our wares / wordsYet I’m of that worst kindI went to sea without a degreeFlorida is still the end of the roadDrawing interest from unscrupulous sortsWe have to make it here

Summer Days Are Numbered

Photo by Bradley Hook on Pexels.com Summer Days are numberedBefore gin heiress takes a piece of meLow-toned cocktails shakenBy the silver fox of Palm Valley She mixes technicolor stimuliRecycling references & touchstonesHer calico dress stretchesRejuvenating sips leads to unintentional moans A sunset brings filtered focusGolden hour views from the terraceI take my drink & humbly …

A Study In Inexact Notions

Photo by vjapratama on Pexels.com A study in inexact notionsDifferences upon the prospective sceneOur unruly burdens confound usNothing to save us when life turns mean Yet we can never let apathy rule the dayIn these times, we must be all the more awareKnowing truth can be unpopularYet compassion is the way to genuinely care

I’m Not Very Good At Being Social

Photo by Cameron Casey on Pexels.com I’m not very good at being socialNever been comfortable in the lightQuietly shuffling back to the shadowsI’m not looking for a fight Feeling inferior with all these charmsSubdued enchantment of the stageAttention makes me feel uncleanRetreat from prying eyes; time to burn some sage I don’t have panic attacks …

Bobbing My Head To Taylor

Photo by Ju00c9SHOOTS on Pexels.com Bobbing my head to TaylorWondering why I wouldn’t look cuteWith my lips painted shades of redI’m nothing if not a social failureAll the exterior opinions rendered mootFor it's the expectations of strangers I’ve shed

Transfiguring Lips Into Fabergé Petals

Photo by Rakicevic Nenad on Pexels.com Transfiguring lips into Fabergé petalsFeeling decadent painting the night skyLet us rejoice with our illustrious wordsPalpitating deliberately when bliss is nighThese fanciful & bountiful thoughts of yonderPossibly plentiful but not quite enough for usImaginative; creating a softer substantial sideWe’re most serene when we’re a bit mussed

Panic Attacks At The Waffle House

Photo by Artem Saranin on Pexels.com Panic attacks at the Waffle HouseSmacked by anxiety first thing Christmas mornToo much going on / overstimulationMy mind is no place to be so adorned Quietly doing my best amidst the strifeWhere can I go to firmly escapeDuties & pressure of this daily existenceThis life hides hope behind heavy …

Wading Through Seawater In Your Dress

Wading through seawater in your dressClinging to your delicious curvesExposing the universe to meStanding at attention; all my nerves You’re the anomaly of this worldVirtue & flexibility of our seamsWrap your legs around my mindAllow me the most sensuous dreams Never to rejoin this delinquent societyLet me lead you with hands on your hipsTo paradise …

I Have A Specific Set Of Skills

I have a specific set of skillsThat aren’t exactly useful by dayHaphazardly moving ideas aroundCreating worlds; as if by molding clay Each word significant by their own mightA genius for ignoring any rational factsMy mind can produce surprising beautyIf I can only let it be still & relax You’re not likely to find any published …

Slow Cooking In The Floridian Sunshine

Slow cooking in the Floridian sunshine Double blinking in a new school of thought Sweat pooling in our sandy crevices Don’t know how it’s going to get actually hot We, the undocumented intellectuals The ones without canon fodder ties The ones that can thrive in this heat We’ll survive- literary or otherwise

you didn’t think

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com but you didn’t think beauty could create such artthat somehow I was too vapid to rearrange the worldwords offensive before they left your mouthdo we blame your lips or your mindlight another match to brew the coffeeit’s a shame; what could be done with such a mouth

Patriotism Isn’t An Aesthetic

Patriotism isn’t an aesthetic To be conglomerated into the war complex Raytheon stickers for your Jeep Wrapping your little soldier in the flag when your wife lets you have sex Your definition of liberty stinks of fragile nationalism Unsure footing when your time ran out Playing ‘don’t break the ice’ with life The wilting ego …

Empty Wine Bottles Clink; Devoid Of All Inspiration

Photo by Anastasia Shuraeva on Pexels.com Empty wine bottles clink; devoid of all inspiration But that’s not the way you remembered they bled Choosing the perfect wording for posterity A trembling shadow of what the poets once said We once set out to create a fresh universe But that’s not the way I can any …

The Summer Is Already Sweltering

The summer is already sweltering I’m trying to survive, so I have nothing on The neighbor lady won’t stop staring Perhaps I shouldn’t be out here watering my lawn 

Low Lit Morning, Fueled By Diet Dr. Pepper

Photo by jasmin chew on Pexels.com Low lit morning, fueled by diet Dr PepperReason doesn’t apply with a heartbreak mixtapeA chipped soul stuck in a eternal commuteMisfocused thoughts back by silhouette shapes Bukowski‘s ghost drawn & quarteredPainted as Sisyphus on the rib cageOur flaws smell like copulationAvoiding definitions on the page Our pens, unsure of …

Those Words Come To Me In Those Coffee Dreams

Those words come to me in those coffee dreams A spontaneous marvel of literary delight There’s a difference between manufactured beauty & a real beauty, founded by nature’s authentic right But I can’t explain the nuances within the definition I’m not one to judge such subjective whims Focusing on my own qualms & dangling thoughts …

Stop The Hate

We must join together and stop the hatred that is spreading around the world.

Such A Difference

  Such a differenceIn a button or twoHow you tease meThe way you do My weary spiritsBegin to riseYou make it hardTo look you in the eyes...

My Whole Life On Scraps Of Paper

  My whole life on scraps of paperMy soul jotted down on the pagePlot lines between scribblesCharacter development as we age Everything that I am, right herePushing to further keep my mind trainedMy heart's secret smudgedWithin these lines my identity is contained

It’s Blistering Out There Today

It’s blistering out there today Don’t know what I’m going to do in this heat Definitely time to start peeling off clothes It’s not my style to be covert nor discrete You smirk & don’t know what’s the matter Hiding your eyes, yet peeking through fingers But I wink, giving you my mischievous grin My …

Photo by Bianca on Pexels.com      After posting almost every day since 2017, I just didn’t post on Wednesday. I did not think anything of it. It was just something I didn’t do.     Being a poet is such a large part of my personality. I often feel inherent pressure to create. I feel …

Time To Say Goodbye

My time has come to a close on another trip to Japan. Over the past 15 years I’ve been blessed to visit 3 times, including a year in 2007. I’ve experienced a lot that I never dreamed I would do. I don’t know if I will ever be back, but I’m glad I’ve had this …

William Blake

“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”William Blake

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

  "Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, …

Dorthy Parker – Brevity

  “Brevity is the soul of lingerie.” – Dorothy Parker

William Butler Yeats

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." - William Butler Yeats Image by Brin Weins from Pixabay

Bob Dylan – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBNWkCsmqAY If the video doesn't load, click the link It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) There's a Closed Caption feature if you'd like to read the lyrics. This world is a mess. Please take a moment to listen to Bob's message from 58 years ago. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN  …

Tired.

Yogi Berra

"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.” ― Yogi Berra

Independence Day

Not as funny as it once was...yet still funny!

Bobbe Sommer

  “Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.” ― Bobbe Sommer

Chloe Thurlow

  “Eating the peach is a meditation. Your mind empties of all the must dos and should have dones. You are pure being. Your lover’s tongue is the key that turns the lock that opens the pleasure box. Life has few perfect moments; moments of cunnilingus score the highest on the sex blissometer.”― Chloe Thurlow, …

Well, I Find It Funny…

Born and raised in Arizona. This speaks to me. Be careful the energy you put out into the world.

True Love

Photo by Flora Westbrook on Pexels.com But how can you be sure? This is true love-you think this happens every day? -The Princess Bride, William Goldman

Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia August 1st, 1942 - August 9th, 1995

Save The Hammer For The Man

https://youtu.be/lpmRU2TPJ-Y

Brokenhearted On A Monday Afternoon

Brokenhearted on a Monday afternoonMourning the loss of a piece of my heartThe giant, jerk dog was always thereThis can’t be the end; merely the startI never got a chance to truly say goodbyeFor I never believed you’d be goneThat you’d bounce back, like you always didBut always isn’t now & I can’t move onI …

Kristoff

No poem today. I'm going to take the day to grieve for Kristoff. I'll be back tomorrow.

Tom Waits – Pasties & A G-String

https://youtu.be/vpv7v-HDgaM

Blowing In The Wind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDdLgBO0Nw

Robert Hunter

"...mercy's a business, I wish it for you More than just ashes when your dreams come true…" -Fire On The Mountain- Grateful Dead, words by Robert Hunter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7iKqoGEQ8

Laura Ingalls Wilder

    "Home is the nicest word there is." - Laura Ingalls Wilder

John Muir

  “The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”― John Muir

Gautama Buddha

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." Gautama Buddha

Twain

    "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." - Mark Twain  Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay

Friedrich Nietzsche

"One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Agatha Christie

    “After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.”― Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia

Stephen Chbosky

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

SkyFall

  It’s not a crime to be pretty Wearing rented dresses, searching for a breadwinner Socialites & other plastic people No redeeming qualities, but she wants to be thinner Her vagina will accept almost anything Whether it be dollars, pounds, marks or kroner A consummate professional at all times She expects to be well paid …

Hermann Hesse

  “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” ― Hermann Hesse   Image by Karen Warfel from Pixabay  

Walt Whitman

“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.” -Walt Whitman

Stephen Fry

"I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the alter of language and purity and tolerance." - Stephen Fry

Leo Tolstoy

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

Edgar Allan Poe

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” ― Edgar Allan Poe    

Dorothy Parker – Cactus

  “I may not be a cactus expert but I know a prick when I see one.” – Dorothy Parker     Image by icondigital from Pixabay

North To Alaska

A few scenes from my walk around Anchorage today. It's a beautiful town. I wish I had more time to dig a little deeper.

Honoré de Balzac

"Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.” ― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  "Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be." -Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra   Image by rawpixel from Pixabay

Margery Williams

"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.” ― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

William Shakespeare – All’s Well That Ends Well

    “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

Thoreau

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” ― Henry David Thoreau  

Pope St. Gregory the Great

"The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist." --Pope St. Gregory the Great

W. Somerset Maugham

"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.” ― W. Somerset Maugham

Word of the Day

This is amazing.

Frida Kahlo

  "They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality." - Frida Kahlo               Image by Jinali Parikh from Pixabay

John D. MacDonald

  “Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. Integrity is not a search for the rewards of integrity. Maybe …

Tom Waits

  "If you're in the middle of the ocean, with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment." - Tom Waits

Ernest Hemingway

  "The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too." Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

Charles Dickens

“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." (Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)” ― Charles Dickens, Works of Charles Dickens   Image by JSchley from Pixabay

Trust

"I don't trust anything that popular. It borders on the levels of Nazism or the Macarena."

Ray Bradbury

  “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

Nell Zink

  "Even his fucking was binary, a sorting process by which certain practices could be tried and found wanting or approved and accorded benchmark status." - Nell Zink, The Wallcreeper

Walt Whitman

  “Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” ― Walt Whitman

Allen Ginsberg

  “We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter.” ― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

George Bernard Shaw

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversations." - George Bernard Shaw

Elizabeth, Mr. Darcy & Captain Barbosa

Peter Pan

  "All it takes is faith, trust, & a little pixie dust." - Peter Pan ✨

Tana French

        “I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any …

Milton

  "What though the field be lost? All is not lost; th'unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield.   - Milton: Paradise Lost, 1667

Cervantes

"My honor is dearer to me than my life." - Cervantes: Don Quixote, 1604      

Leon Trotsky

    "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves." - Leon Trotsky

Ralph Waldo Emerson

    "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fairytales

Edith Sitwell

  “I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.” ― Edith Sitwell

Albert Einstein

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” ― Albert Einstein

Frida Kahlo

  "I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling." - Frida Kahlo

Joss Whedon

  “Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.” ― Joss Whedon

Anaïs Nin

  “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” ― Anaïs Nin

Christian Dior

  “By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.” ― Christian Dior

Thomas Jefferson

Coltrane

"To try to become a saint." - John Coltrane (when asked what he was going to do next)

Shakespeare

  "As it is base for a soldier to love; so I am in love with a base wench." - William Shakespeare: Love's Labor Lost, 1594

Edgar Allan Poe

“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

Jodi Picoult

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.” ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Margaret Chittenden

“Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.” ― Margaret Chittenden

Hans Christian Andersen

"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers." - Hans Christian Andersen   Image by iris Vallejo from Pixabay

William Shakespeare

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Aristotle

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.” ― Aristotle

Leo Tolstoy

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Nikita Gill

  "...Anxiety makes more heroes than history would care to repeat." - Nikita Gill

Last Night…

I was fortunate enough to see Bob Weir & the Wolf Brothers last night. It was an amazing show. I definitely recommend seeing them or Dead & Company this summer.

William Butler Yeats

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." - William Butler Yeats Image by Brin Weins from Pixabay

Bikini Weather!

I'll just leave this here...

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day (early)

Oscar Wilde

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtoW4aV-CIc

Happy Friday!

Jingle Bell Rock

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfJoq2gjeyU

Another One For October 🎀💝

In Honor Of Breast… 💝🎀

In honor of breast cancer awareness month...💝🎀  

#mood

In case you’re sad the weekend is coming to an end…

Oscar Wilde

  “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.” ― Oscar Wilde

A Dirty Mind

Early Morning Thoughts…

Things Have Changed

Handle With Care

Pixie Dust

Here is another poem from BB with a Neverland theme.

The Migraine Chronicles

I miss the magic

I let it slip away

I grew up

while you continued to play

I miss the magic

I just let it go

the age on my face

yes, it’s starting to show

I miss the magic

between us

you’ll be forever Peter Pan

while I’m still searching for Pixie Dust

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Return to Neverland

If you know me, you know that this is my favorite subject! If you don’t follow BB, please do. You won’t be sorry!

The Migraine Chronicles

And so I wait patiently

for I know he will return to me

I snuggle in and close my eyes

I keep my window open wide

Under my pillow I keep a kiss

for my own lost boy, whom I so miss

Hoping his shadow finds a way to my room

I find myself in dreamland soon

“Are those happy thoughts” he wants to know

I nod, so he says “then away we go”

Second star to the right, straight on ’til morning

come fly with me, my Darling

Fly with me to Neverland

where dreams are born, and time is never planned

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Karl Lagerfeld

  "Music gives color to the air of the moment." Karl Lagerfeld

P.J. O’Rourke

"Don't vote, it just encourages the bastards." -P.J. O'Rouke

James Baldwin

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.” ― James Baldwin

Ambrose Bierce

   "Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math." Ambrose Bierce

Ayn Rand

  "The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone." Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Marcel Proust

“A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by love reciprocal torture.” ― Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive

C.S. Lewis

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Tom Robbins

  "Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer." Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

Robert Louis Stevenson

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

John Steinbeck

"I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible." John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Jerry Garcia

  “Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.” ― Jerry Garcia

Leo Durocher

"Show me a man who doesn't go down on his wife and I'll show you a man whose wife I can sleep with, tonight." - Leo Durocher

Robert Frost

  “The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” ― Robert Frost

Coco Chanel

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” ― Coco Chanel

Oscar Wilde

  “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.” ― Oscar Wilde

Pablo Neruda

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ― Pablo Neruda

Margaret Atwood

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” ― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

Oscar Wilde

  “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” ― Oscar Wilde

Lewis Carroll

  "The time has come, my little friends, to talk of other things Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings Calloo, Callay, come run away / With the cabbages and kings" - The Walrus  

John Quincy Adams

   Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.- John Quincy Adams

Coco Chanel

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” ― Coco Chanel

Rita May-Brown

“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.” ― Rita Mae Brown

Nelson Mandela

  "It always seems impossible until its done." - Nelson Mandela

Roger Clyne

"My second home is a third world cantina." - Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers

Oscar Wilde

"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde  

It’s A Wonderful Life

Rachel! It's not exact, but here you go.   "Remember, no man is a failure who has friends." - It's A Wonderful Life       P.S. I'm super excited that I can figure out how to insert links. An old dog CAN learn new tricks! Ta-da! (spirit fingers)  

Auden

"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about." - W.H. Auden    

Twain

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." - Mark Twain   

Machiavelli

"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times." - Niccolo Machiavelli: Discorsi, 1531