Oh! The Places You’ll Go!-Dr. Seuss

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.

Destination

there is no true escape

 unless it is supported by a physical change of space

there is no true escape

unless it blocks off all the excess noise

there is no true escape

until your mind can disengage from clamor of the past and the worry of the future

there is no true escape

unless you reach a point of clarity–right where you are.

-Mars

‘never fulfilled’

Without Warning
David Brooks

My father spent most of his adult life
working for the Commonwealth Public Service, shunting files
from one end of his long desk to the other.
When he died he left half-written
a History of Australian Immigration,
only half-joking when he willed that I should finish it.
Why didn’t he tell me
how little would ever be completed?
letters left unanswered, accounts not settled, promises
never fulfilled, the parts of that motorcycle
unreassembled, lying ten years
on a concrete floor in Westgarth St, people
dying without warning, mid sentence,
taking the next words with them.

From: Walking to Point Clear: Poems 1983-2002
Publisher: Brandl & Schlesinger, Blackheath, 2005

Courtesy: 3QuarksDaily

cuz I breathe poems and live songs

 

 

cuz i breathe poems

and

live songs

dance silently

at the oddest times

smile often

for no good reason

find rhythm

in your laughter

feel alive

when it

rains or shines

—

i am.

Catch a Little Rhyme

Catch a Little Rhyme

Once upon a time I caught a little rhymeI set it on the floor but it ran right out the door I chased it on my bicycle but it melted to an icicle I scooped it up in my hat but it turned into a cat I caught it by the tail but it stretched into a whale I followed it in a boat but it changed into a goat When I fed it tin and paper it became a tall skyscraper Then it grew into a kite and flew far out of sight… Eve Merriam