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 If you can keep your head when all about you

   Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

   But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

   Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,

   And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

   Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

   If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run—

   Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.

-Rudyard Kipling

Haiku 113

 

To The Swimmer

 

Now as I watch you, strong of arm and endurance, 

battling and struggling

With the waves that rush against you, 

ever with invincible strength returning

Into my heart, grown each day more tranquil and peaceful, 

comes a fierce longing

Of mind and soul that will not be appeased until, like you, 

I breast yon deep and boundless expanse of blue.

With an outward stroke of power intense your mighty arm goes forth,

Cleaving its way through waters that rise and roll, 

ever a ceaseless vigil keeping

Over the treasures beneath.

My heart goes out to you of dauntless courage and spirit indomitable,

And though my lips would speak, my spirit forbids me to ask,

“Is your heart as true as your arm?”

- COUNTEE CULLEN

Mood

 

Haiku 112

“No good news awaits

I warned you right at the start

Turn away, reader”

― Rick Riordan, The Burning Maze

Volume One

 “to live in this world

you must be able

to do three things

to love what is mortal;

to hold it

against your bones knowing

your own life depends on it;

and, when the time comes to let it go,

to let it go”

― Mary Oliver

01.04.2021

 

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible

 is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

― Arthur C. Clarke

Confucius

 “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

― The Analects

12.28.2020

 Being deeply loved by someone

 gives you strength, 

while loving someone deeply 

gives you courage.

-Lao Tzu

Dare to Be

"When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.

When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.

When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.

When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.

When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.

When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.

When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.

When times are tough, dare to be tougher.

When love hurts you, dare to love again.

When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.

When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.

When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.

When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.

When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.

When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.

Dare to be the best you can –

At all times, Dare to be!”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

12.25.2020

“Count your age by friends, not years. 

Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

― John Lennon

Michael Creese

Socrates

 “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

Gold

One man's trash is another man's treasure

 

Venting

 This is the moment, the perfect moment,

moment to vent to the world.

The past brings the present and the present 

brings the future, the world knows.

Inspired by nature I talk to the clouds,

I hear the ocean responding and

the breeze singing with the plants.

This is the moment to touch and feel,

to hear the message with the echo.

This is the moment to vent.

Claudia Luna

Still Another Day

 “We the mortals touch the metals,

the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,

knowing they will go on, inert or burning,

and I was discovering, naming all the these things:

it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.”

― Pablo Neruda 💟

Seasons

 

 

“Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.

Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.

And without feet I can make my way to you,

without a mouth I can swear your name.

👇

Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you

with my heart as with a hand.

Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.

And if you consume my brain with fire,

I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Haiku 111

“Cold walls

No need to whisper

I hear you”

― Elancharan Gunasekaran

A thought

Wide as lightning

bodies of the lovers

skin sloughed off

and still rubbing





- Amanda Joy

Living

“I'm oxygen and she's dying to breathe.”

― TM

EOM

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”

~ John Green