Quote of the Day- 06/09/2011

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."
- Octavio Paz

Quote of the Day- 06/08/2011

"I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place.  I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy."
- Sandra Cisneros

Quote of the Day- 06/07/2011

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
- Thomas Szasz

Quote of the Day- 06/06/2011

"Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Quote of the Day- 06/05/2011

"You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover all roads lead down."
- Stanislaw Lem

Quote of the Day- 06/04/2011

"Oh, you mean love?  A big lightning bolt to the heart when you can't eat and you can't work and you just run off and get married and make babies?  The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist.  What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons...you're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts, but I never forget.  I'm living like there is no tomorrow, because there isn't one."

- Don Draper.

Quote of the Day- 06/03/2011

"The devil take this predictable colon!"
- Professor Hubert Farnsworth

I Miss You

Written to answer a request for a piece about a lonely lover.


I've spent my life as a man untouched
By fear, weakness, or cowardly shame,
With heart hardened to love and much
That I took for a strong man's bane.

Then, by simple circumstance, you came to me,
A furious aphrodesian hurricane,
Within you a fire for all to see,
So much power in such a tiny frame.

You tore down my walls and left me bare,
Casting my heart into the light of the sun,
And for a moment I knew love without compare,
Giving you a victory I thought could not be won.

I stand alone amongst the rubble now,
Yearning, spent, pained, and wasted.
With what I have left I hope that somehow
Your tempest returns to see my heart sated.

I want to hate and be rid of memory,
But as I rebuild my walls ever higher,
Thoughts of you are locked in my treasury,
Forever safe from my futile ire.

Defiance

Written in response to a question about why I am so stubborn in light of the resistance I've found.

A broken man asks why
Fate seems set against him.
He fails to want to try
In the face of the world's brim.

A desperate man asks when
Will awaited salvation come.
He fails to know his ken
And will only find faith undone.

A cautious man asks how
Unknown can be illuminated.
He fails to love here and now,
Left with stale breath bated.

A defiant man ask what
He must do to weather the storm.
He fails to see invincible plot
For in hope is victory born.

Quote of the Day- 06/02/2011 (A TWO-FER!)

"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own."
- H.G. Wells

"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire