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keep busy
with tasks that
inspire you
motivate you
or
please you |
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blossoms will run away
cakes reign but a day
but memory like melody
is pink eternally |
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happiness is like a butterfly which
when pursued is always beyond our grasp
but if you will sit down quietly
may alight upon you |
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move him into the sun
gently its touch awoke him once
at home whispering of fields unsown
always it awoke him even in france
until this morning and this snow
if anything might rouse him now
the kind old sun will know
think how it wakes the seeds
woke once the clays of a cold star
are limbs so dear-achieved are sides |
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you'll remember me when the west wind moves
among the fields of barley
you can tell the sun in his jealous sky
when we walked in fields of gold
so she took her love for to gaze awhile
among the fields of barley
in his arms she fell as her hair came down
among the fields of gold
will you stay with me will you be my love
among the fields of barley |
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my death is like
a swinging door
a patient girl who knows the score
whistle for her
and the passing time
my death waits like
a bible truth
at the funeral of my youth
weep loud for that
and the passing time |
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life is about creating moments
like open water life is unpredictable yet beautiful there are so many opportunities to grasp but only if we take the risk
we do not know the future but we create a path towards one
follow your heart take chances and embrace life
be there |
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where light materializes
and exile ceases
search
search for wonder |
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faults and flaws
in granite reside
'neath the coin of genius
shame and sorrow hide
from a thorny stem
springs the rose
blur cradles sharpness
while light from shadow grows |
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hands - ten fingers disabled
abandoned absolutely
useless to anyone
blind |
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in this world of change
nothing which comes stays
and nothing which goes is lost |
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it's sad to find a thorn
when looking for a rose
and sad for someone to refuse
the friendship one day they might use
friendship is a flower
that a few times grows
if it appears in your garden
preserve it for life |
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at the window
sparrow twitter
nobody knows
how birds die |
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a wet sheet and a flowing sea
a wind that follows fast
and fills the white and rustling sail
and bends the gallant mast |
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there rest the air is soft and sweet
in this sequestered forest glade
and there are scents of flowers around
the evening dew draws from the ground
how soothingly they spread |
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i find myself
at the extremity
on a long beach
how gladly does the spirit leap forth and suddenly
enlarge its sense of being
to the full extent of the broad
blue
sunny deep
a greeting and homage
to the sea |
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i think that the leaf of a tree
the meanest insect on which we trample
are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced
that some vast intellect animates infinity |
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happiness is like a butterfly which
when pursued is always beyond our grasp
but if you will sit down quietly
may alight upon you |
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thy sun shall no more go down
neither shall thy moon withdraw itself
for the lord shall be thine everlasting light
and the days of thy mourning shall be ended |
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letter writing
is the only device
for combining
solitude
with
good company |
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two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and sorry i could not travel both
and be one traveler long i stood
and looked down one as far as i could
to where it bent in the undergrowth
then took the other as just as fair
and having perhaps the better claim
because it was grassy and wanted wear
though as for that the passing there
had worn them really about the same |
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please take a seat
prix fixe
wine pairings
please order ala carte
breathe in
take off your shoes
don't forget to tip
take a seat
remember the view
don't repeat |
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all my dreams are paintings
coloured memories and desires
in my dream my future bride
was flying past a painted clock
that had wings that made time fly
and the musician playing the violin laughed
as he played a wedding march
and i cried tears of milk
from a floating cow as the cock crowed |
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autumn is a second spring
when every leaf is a flower |
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a fine and subtle spirit dwells
in every little flower
each one its own sweet feeling breathes
with more or less of power
there is a silent eloquence
in every wild bluebell
that fills my softened heart with bliss
that words could never tell |
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we all have our own life to pursue
our own kind of dream to be weaving
and we all have the power
to make wishes come true
as long as we keep believing |
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the moment one give close attention to anything
even a blade of grass
it becomes a mysterious
awesome
indescribably magnificent world in itself |
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i saw you at night
in the plain of dreams
and you were the fairest dream
as a white heron of silence
as a white heron of the waters
i wished i could fly against the stars
together with your universal light
both naked in the sheet of passion
where desire reaches its end
hands like candlesticks of love |
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gay stars little stars you are little eyes
eyes of baby angels playing in the skies
now and then a winged child turns his merry face
down toward the spinning world what a funny place |
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i am much too alone in this world yet not alone
enough
to truly consecrate the hour
i am much too small in this world yet not small
enough
to be to you just object and thing
dark and smart
i want my free will and want it accompanying
the path which leads to action
and want during times that beg questions |
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razors pain you
rivers are damp
acids stain you
and drugs cause cramp
guns aren't lawful
nooses give
gas smells awful
you might as well live |
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have we not seen
purple of the pansy
out of the mulch
and mold
crawl
into a dusk
of velvet
blur of yellow
almost we thought from nowhere but it was the silence
the future |
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earth's crammed with heaven
and every common bush afire
with god
but only he who sees takes off his shoes |
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my love is like a red red rose
thats newly sprung in june
my love is like the melody
thats sweetly played in tune
as fair art thou my bonnie lass
so deep in love am i
and i will love thee still my dear
till a the seas gang dry
till a the seas gang dry my dear
and the rocks melt wi the sun |
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dandelion in flight
drifting out of sight
fallowing the light
between black and white
find the rainbow |
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he came home said nothing
it was clear though that something had gone wrong
he lay down fully dressed
pulled the blanket over his head
tucked up his knees
he's nearly forty but not at the moment
he exists just as he did inside his mother's womb
clad in seven walls of skin in sheltered darkness
tomorrow he'll give a lecture
on homeostasis in metagalactic cosmonautics |
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i'm a little teapot
short and stout
here is my handle
here is my spout
when i get all steamed up
hear me shout
tip me over
and pour me out |
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of living pained branches
my garden's braided body
cries at night
calling on the billowing of birds's wings
the moon's face wet amid leaves
peers into nests full of absence
green fingers tremble
clasped tight on the wind's throat
dawn |
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they dined on mince and slices of quince
which they ate with a runcible spoon
and hand in hand on the edge of the sand
they danced by the light of the moon |
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lambs that learn to walk in snow
when their bleating clouds the air
meet a vast unwelcome know
nothing but a sunless glare
newly stumbling to and fro
all they find outside the fold
is a wretched width of cold
as they wait beside the ewe
her fleeces wetly caked there lies
hidden round them waiting too |
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my heart pieced together no glue
no nylon steel or bamboo only impermanence
when the timing is right it will fray
fall apart into the wind to dissipate
decay and fertilize the new sapling growing within |
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ance there upon the shore
what need have you to care
for wind or water's roar
and tumble out your hair
that the salt drops have wet
being young you have not known
the fool's triumph nor yet
love lost as soon as won
nor the best labourer dead
and all the sheaves to bind |
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music hath charms to soothe a savage breast
to soften rocks
or bend a knotted oak |
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we think too small
like the frog at the bottom of the well
he thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well
if he surfaced he would have an entirely different view |
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the leaves had a wonderful frolic
they danced to the wind's loud song
they whirled and they floated and scampered
they circled and flew along
the moon saw the little leaves dancing
each looked like a small brown bird
the man in the moon smiled and listened
and this is the song he heard
the north wind is calling is calling
and we must whirl round and round |
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the artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place
from the sky
from the earth
from a scrap of paper
from a passing shape
from a spider's web |
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our souls sit close and silently within
and their own webs from their own entrails spin
and when eyes meet far off our sense is such
that spider-like we feel the tenderest touch |
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an idea
like a ghost
must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself |
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there is something about a martini
a tingle remarkably pleasant
a yellow a mellow martini
i wish i had one at present
there is something about a martini
ere the dining and dancing begin
and to tell you the truth
it is not the vermouth
i think that perhaps it's the gin |
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long gone summer
on the mountain slope
my eyes have stopped
colours fall frail from tall branches
ripe
carpeting my way up with crispy clouds |
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footfalls echo in the memory
down the passage which we did not take
towards the door we never opened
into the rose-garden |
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tender words we spoke
to one another
are sealed
in the secret vaults of heaven
one day like rain
they will fall to earth
and grow green
all over the world |
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light is a thing that cannot be reproduced
but must be represented by something else
by color |
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did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete
proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet
funny it seems but by keeping it's dreams
it learned to breathe fresh air
long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared |
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deep in december it's nice to remember
although you know the snow will follow
deep in december it's nice to remember
without a hurt the heart is hollow |
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the air is like a butterfly
with frail blue wings
the happy earth looks at the sky
and sings |
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little boy blue
come blow your horn
the sheep's in the meadow
the cow's in the corn
where's the boy
who looks after the sheep
he's under the haystack
fast asleep |
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when i admire the wonder of a sunset
or the beauty of the moon
my soul expands in worship of the creator |
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the windows of my soul i throw
wide open to the sun |
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i am of flowers
of a bird wing
the wind lives within me
when unfurled
i catch it
raindrops of green rain
awaken me with spring
and i rub my eyes |
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like the candle burns away
she burned out
like the flame goes away
she went out
like the dream is gone
she died out
how did you get that lonely
what made you took that call
just as if nothing had happened
you are gone and i am here |
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of living pained branches
my garden's braided body
cries at night
calling on the billowing of birds's wings
the moon's face wet amid leaves
peers into nests full of absence
green fingers tremble
clasped tight on the wind's throat
dawn |
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i was sitting drumming thinking thumping pondering
the mysteries of life
outside the city shrieking screaming whispering
the mysteries of life
theres a funeral tomorrow
at st patricks the bells will ring for you
ah what must you have been thinking
when you realized the time had come for you
i wish i hadnt thrown away my time
on so much human and so much less divine |
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i dreamed that i stood in a valley and amid sighs
for happy lovers passed two by two where i stood
and i dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood
with her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes
i cried in my dream o women bid the young men lay
their heads on your knees and drown their eyes with your fair
or remembering hers they will find no other face fair
till all the valleys of the world have been withered away |
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flowers always make people better
happier and more helpful
they are sunshine food
and medicine to the soul |
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the sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks
the life i have chosen gives me hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life |
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if a man knows not what harbor he seeks
any wind is the right wind |
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the door at the end
appears closer now
i knew it was always there
but it was often shrouded
in the fog of time
i walk slowly
aware of every step
taking time to feel the sunlight
among the shadows
aware of every color |
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silent oh moyle be the roar of thy water
break not ye breezes your chain of repose
while murmuring mournfully lir's lonely daughter
tell's to the night-star her tale of woes
when shall the swan her death-note singing
sleep with wings in darkness furl'd
when will heaven its sweet bell ringing
call my spirit from this stormy world
sadly oh moyle to thy winter-wave weeping
fate bids me languish long ages away |
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time sometimes flies like a bird
sometimes crawls like a snail
but a man is happiest
when he does not even notice
whether it passes swiftly or slowly |
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a frozen heart
the body shaked and iced
if i had the location
the direction
i could become your guardian
in the darkness
the tears reflect the moonlight
it directs where you are
with a smile
to wish the peace arrives from the silence |
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so drifts this summer evening down the wye
weary river from withered valleys worn
forging through rocks your passage to the sea
seared by the wind in cadences stillborn
dusk now slithers down your silky way
while sullen willows slow the waters flow
and fluttering leaves their ambient music play
as salmon snatch at flies in sunset glow
now i my fond farewells must say with pain
oh fickle water on a constant bed |
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your laughter
take bread away from me if you wish
take air away but
do not take from me your laughter
do not take away the rose
the lance flower that you pluck
the water that suddenly
bursts forth in joy
the sudden wave
of silver born in you |
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drifting leaves
in the autumn air
farewell song |
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something happened to mum
between the altar and the sanctuary
theatre and intensive care
someone was careless and for
an eternitys instant
her brain was starved
the stroke killing her oesophagus muscles
made her last week a desert
where her only thought
was for liquid refreshment |
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shed no tear
no shed no tear
the flow'r will bloom another year |
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one small
positive thought
in the morning
can change
your whole day |
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the bell strikes one
we take no note of time
but from its loss |
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i am the daughter of earth and water
and the nursling of the sky
i pass through the pores of the ocean and shores
i change but cannot die
for after the rain when with never a stain
the pavilion of heaven is bare
and the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams
build up in the blue dome of air
i silently laugh at my own cenotaph
and out of the caverns of rain |
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two roads diverged in a wood and i
i took the one less traveled by |
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not any star burns your profile
not any god remembers your name
not even the wind passes where you pass
for you i will create a pure day
free as the wind and repeated
like the blooming of the orderly waves |
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the butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough
time is a wealth of change
but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth
let your life lightly dance on the edges of time
like dew on the tip of a leaf |
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is fairer far in may
although it fall and die that night
it was the plant of flower and light |
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places ive been
its a wonder
you dont
know me
here in transit
you who knew me
all before
it was you who
woke me to wonder
in the white evening |
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'tis the last rose of summer
left blooming alone
all her lovely companions
are faded and gone
no flower of her kindred
no rose-bud is nigh
to reflect back her blushes
or give sigh for sigh
i'll not leave thee thou lone one
to pine on the stem |
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the falling leaves drift by the window
the autumn leaves of red and gold
i see your lips the summer kisses
the sunburned hands i used to hold
since you went away the days grow long
and soon i'll hear ol' winter's song
but i miss you most of all my darling
when autumn leaves start to fall |
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sometimes if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you
you will suddenly know everything there is to be known |
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theres a city draped in net
fisherman net
and in the half light in the half light
it looks like every tower
is covered in webs
moving and glistening and rocking
its babies in rhythm
as the spider of time is climbing
over the ruins
there were hundreds of people living here |
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morning and evening
maids heard the goblins cry
come buy our orchard fruits
come buy come buy
apples and quinces
lemons and oranges
plump unpeckd cherries
melons and raspberries
bloom-down-cheekd peaches
swart-headed mulberries |
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the wind one brilliant day called
to my soul with an odor of jasmine
in return for the odor of my jasmine
id like all the odor of your roses
i have no roses all the flowers
in my garden are dead
well then ill take the withered petals
and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain
the wind left and i wept and i said to myself
what have you done with the garden that was entrusted |
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october gave a party
the leaves by hundreds came
the chestnuts oaks and maples
and leaves of every name
the sunshine spread a carpet
and everything was grand
miss weather led the dancing |
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there brews he beautiful water
and beautiful it always is
you see it glistening in the dewdrop
you hear it singing in the summer rain
you see it sparkling in the ice gem when the trees seem loaded with rich jewels
dancing in the hailstorm leaping foaming dashing see how it weaves a golden gauze for the setting sun and a silvery tissue for the midnight moon |
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if i could make days last forever
i'd save every day like a treasure and then
i would spend them with you |
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he clasps the craig with crooked hands
close to the sun in lonely lands
ringed with the azure world he stands
the wrinkled sea beneath him crawls
he watches from his mountain walls
and like a thunderbolt he falls |
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a secret place
full of magic and fairy dreams
where light and shadow dance together
and all is never what it seems
a place of peace
and daylight dreaming
of rustling leaves
and sunlight gleaming
a place for me a place for you
a place for one -a place for two |
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only in the awareness of the present can your hands feel the pleasant warmth of the cup
only in the present can you savor the aroma taste the sweetness appreciate the delicacy
if you are ruminating about the past or worrying about the future you will completely miss the experience of enjoying the cup of tea
you will look down at the cup and the tea will be gone
life is like that
if you are not fully present you will look around and it will be gone
you will have missed the feel the aroma the delicacy and beauty of life
it will seem to be speeding past you the past is finished
learn from it and let it go
the future is not even here yet plan for it but do not waste your time worrying about it |
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she reminded me that the world was really one bee yard and the same rules work fine in both places
don't be afraid
as no life loving bee wants to sting you don't swat don't ever think about swatting |
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you must remember this
a kiss is still a kiss
a sigh is just a sigh
the fundamental things apply as time goes by
moonlight and love songs never out of date
hearts full of passion jealousy and hate
woman needs man and man must have his mate
that no one can deny
it's still the same old story
a fight for love and glory |
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only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb
and the rose grow without thorn |
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you are responsible forever
for what you have tamed
you are responsible for your rose |
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