Sunday, May 4, 2008

since we're on that topic...

I figured since I wrote a poem about me writing poems in high school I would post one that I enjoyed. Here you go...
Samuel J and Annie
A sign on one of the lazy branches warns
Slow 15/km
As if not to disturb the peace
of people dead and gone
One grave reads
Southern Samuel J and Annie
The sermon of living birds plays
a toll on my mind
The music these poets bellow for
the dancers is enchanting
A tree creates a canopy for
the two lovers to lie under
Had they seen this place before?
A blanket of nature covers them,
keeps them,
protects them from the harshness of
the real world
They become one through the love they had
As if never to leave they embrace
each other for all of eternity
in a place not half as forgotten as this
The watercolour flowers around them only
adds beauty to their bed
I wonder,
Had they seen this place before?

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one great quote...

"whenever i get gloomy with the state of the world, i think of the arrivals gate at heathrow airport. general opinion makes out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, i don't see that. seems to me that love is everywhere. often it's not articularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there. fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. when the planes hit the twin towers, i have reason to believe that none of the calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge, they were all messages of love. if you look for it, i've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around." -Love Actually