poems for people who have passed away

but have no stake in becoming

Kittens can happen to anyone. ~Paul Gallico

Indeed, they might have passed

The lively Shadow-World of Song. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

I have written a few poems,

They gave him a manger for a cradle, a carpenter's bench for a pulpit, thorns for a crown, and a cross for a throne. He took them and made them the very glory of his career. ~W.E. Orchard

passed away this week.

I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content. ~Jenny Eclair

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Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" - with his mouth. ~Mark Twain

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In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified. ~John Updike

of people who have died,

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details. ~Bill Veeck

young people who have died

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal. ~John Waters, quoted in The Portable Curmudgeon Redux, compiled & edited by Jon Winokur, 1992

to the people who have

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

broken heart poems for guys.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab

People have always sung in

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something. ~Harold Coffin

Day honors those who died

Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard

Those beautiful and crystal

If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides. ~Old Yiddish Proverb

people Poems and alternate

Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

As readers of Jstheater have

Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules. ~Nordstrom's Employee Handbook

people who have died

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. ~Russian Proverb

Soul

We are all manufacturers - some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses. ~Author Unknown

Anderson#39;s poems are often

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ~Baruch Spinoza

Have I sunk you,

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale



In the life we might have lived, the years never pass. On the person we might have been, time never leaves its mark. How different would seem our might-have-beens if we could picture them as would-be-nows. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach (Thanks, Bonnie)



The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation. ~James Cook, 1779



Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher Reeve