Tu Fu

Day’s EndOxen and sheep were brought back down
Long ago, and bramble gates closed. Over
Mountains and rivers, far from my old garden,
A windswept moon rises into clear night.
Springs trickle down dark cliffs, and autumn
Dew fills ridgeline grasses. My hair seems
Whiter in lamplight. The flame flickers
Good fortune over and over — and for what?

The title here [...]

Marianne Moore

SilenceMy father used to say,
“Superior people never make long visits,
have to be shown Longfellow’s grave
nor the glass flowers at Harvard.
Self reliant like the cat –
that takes its prey to privacy,
the mouse’s limp tail hanging like a shoelace from its mouth –
they sometimes enjoy solitude,
and can be robbed of speech
by speech which has delighted them.
The deepest [...]

Charles Bukowski

Writing
 
 

 

 

often it is the only
thing
between you and
impossibility.
no drink,
no woman’s love,
no wealth
can
match it.

The word writing holds many meanings.
Ideas
Belief
hope
thought
imagination
possibility
choices
chance.

Really, the thoughts in your head can keep you in the here and now when everything else wants to pull you down and away.
how do you find out what to write.
you write down the impossibilities,
the drink
the love [...]