January 28, 2014 by Chris G.

To the Budding Flower

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Just a little taste of spring:

Hands jerking over rosebuds

Wheeling inside a weightless wind

The slender self would flood

Numbers, sunlit fall

Without winding, nor binding no

Not this kiss, for that’s all it is

A kiss and a thunder so

The flower smiles today

Before the morrow’s sunless yoke:

The higher they be howling

The sooner sets the stroke

And age, it cries out for the coy

For youth knows yet the blood,

and time the wisdom of the sleepless

knows the quiet of life caught in the bud.

November 26, 2013 by Chris G.

Educational Hush

Twilight hush amidst the room;
a voice, rising through the shadow throng
commits the universe to notes
and I, swooning through the grace of logic, rise
drifted on the captivated stars
onto the mystic sea, glittering in
transcendental mysticism fires
that will not be bound by flesh:
a word, they say, a notion
but in that heaving sky
the rush of majesty;
souls which lie
Beyond.

A Word from Vonnegut

On the anniversary of one of the truly great authors’ birth–that being Kurt Vonnegut, in 1922–I leave you humble blog-goers a few words of wisdom from the man himself. Here’s hoping you’re having either a Happy Veteran’s Day, or a productive day (though since you’re on the blogosphere at present, let’s just say a fun day reading, shall we?). Cheers!

“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.'”

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'”

~Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut speaking at Case Western Reserve University (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

November 5, 2012 by Chris G.

A Touch of Madness

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

~Mark Twain

A portrait of the American writer Mark Twain taken by A. F. Bradley in New York, 1907. http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/publications/siycfall_05.pdf http://www.twainquotes.com/Bradley/bradley.html See also other photographs of Mark Twain by A. F. Bradley taken in March 1907 in New York on Mark Twain Project Online. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

October 29, 2012 by Chris G.

Resistance

“We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”

~Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre (1950) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

October 22, 2012 by Chris G.

Hindsight is 20/20

“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.”

~Mark Twain

A portrait of the American writer Mark Twain taken by A. F. Bradley in New York, 1907. See also other photographs of Mark Twain by A. F. Bradley taken in March 1907 in New York on Mark Twain Project Online. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

October 15, 2012 by Chris G.

Truth and Madness, Hand-in-Hand

“Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”

~Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

October 8, 2012 by Chris G.

Imagination

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”

~Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin (Photo credit: Wikipedia. Photo by “Hajor”, from Meet-the-author Q&A session; Bookworks bookstore, Albuquerque, NM, USA; July 2004.)