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Posts tagged ‘Poetry’

“The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.” —Bear Grylls

A Star Shines poster

A star shines
Behind a curtained
Looking glass

If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it’s essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were. —Conor Oberst
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“A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.” —J. R. R. Tolkien

EUREKA poster

If it’s Greek
Goddesses ye seek
Eureka!

‘In my box,’ the old man said, ‘that I carry about with me, I’ve other delights besides my show.’ —John Masefield

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“The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.” –James Lafferty

Off the wall poster

Off the wall
In my frame of mind
Hang haiku

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. —Francis Bacon

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“Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.” –Frank Darabont

Wall Painting with Rollers poster

Wall painting
With paper rollers
Show and tell

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls —Paul Simon

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“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.” –Thomas Mann

bonne annee

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. —Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Laughing without laughing is only possible with the laughing of the eyes!” –Anon.

HO-HO! THRO' SOUL'S WINDOWS p

Merry woes
Thro’ soul’s windows show
Go Ho-Ho!

In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. —Linda Ellerbee

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“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

Sneering Ear to Eear 1

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

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“Unusual travel directions are dancing lessons from God.”—Kurt Vonnegut

Beside the Path 1

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

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“At the typewriter you find out who you are.”—Tom Robbins

My Blue Pencil 1

When Underwood dings
I stop typing till
I’m done sharpening
My B
lue Pencil

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

—Mark Twain

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“My life is a mosaic, and there’s no room in between pieces at all.”—Marcia Clark

Mosaic Mile 1

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

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