Posts tagged ‘Haiku’
Jun 19
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Had the dons been awake,
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.
Jun 14
“Why should poetry have to make sense?” —Charlie Chaplin
Mad lover’s poems
compress a rosy garden
in compost and rain
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
―William Shakespeare
Jun 11
“Quantum particles: the dreams that stuff is made of.” —Anon
Maybe life is a long lost friend
The love you live to meet again
Maybe it’s real or just pretend
Maybe it has no separate ends
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
―Albert Einstein
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”—Drew Carey
Head of human resources
Weaned in a square barred playpen
Bred for the egg-crate rat race
Gleaned the art of sneering then
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
―Robert Frost
May 23
“Unusual travel directions are dancing lessons from God.”—Kurt Vonnegut
On the rive gauche in French
One is not maladroit
Who hangs left for a stretch
To gain la route à droite
Beside the path
Sometimes people need to take the wrong path in order to lead them to the right one.
―Nashoda Rose
“At the typewriter you find out who you are.”—Tom Robbins
When Underwood dings
I stop typing till
I’m done sharpening
My Blue Pencil
Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
—Mark Twain
“My life is a mosaic, and there’s no room in between pieces at all.”—Marcia Clark
They meet by serendipity,
in a surreal mirage of tile;
paired and spared for eternity,
to stand on the mosaic mile.
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” —Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare’s Prince of Denmark tells his scholarly pal, Horatio, of encountering a talking ghost wearing his late father’s armor and crown: an absurdity undreamt in Horatio’s philosophy, with which he is endowed by the enlightened rational faculty of the Bard of Avon.
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
—Ambrose Bierce
“The mind is like an umbrella. It’s most useful when open.” —Walter Gropius
Won’t flip inside-out in a gust
Nor flap like a gull in a gale
Impassively as iron rusts
The stoic umbrella prevails
Let a smile be your umbrella, and you’ll end up with a face full of rain.
—George Carlin
May 4
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” —Albert Einstein
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