“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars.”
–Salman Rushdie
Art – Christian Schloe
A Poem
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Pay with a poem!
Multiple facets
of benevolence, friendship and kindness
have been engraved
on my heart
whose green veins tremble
with happiness and delight
at seeing, reading and admiring
your exquisite words-of-art and flowing imagery
Here…
………………………………………………………………………
Your minds drew letters
Upon my soul
I will wear them always
To humble and subdue
All the shimmers of the world.
This is my modest “payment” for the beauty and joy you have given me through knowing you and your beautiful art and my “currency” in thanking you for reading, appreciating and sharing my words.
Iulia Halatz
I have written this for The World Poetry Day in 2017.
I am reposting in celebration of the opening of the first Poetry Pharmacy in the world – https://www.poetrypharmacy.co.uk/.
Art – Christian Schloe
We travel
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
– Anaïs Nin
Christian Schloe
Happiness is a butterfly
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Christian Schloe
Sit before flowers
“I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up…..”
– Shane Koyczan
Christian Schloe
Drunk on writing
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Art by Christian Schloe.
Hope
I’ve always felt that one of the most devastating states of mind is the absence of hope. And that is a condition that envelops a goodly number of people everywhere. And when you make drama of that condition, it’s almost as if words are not necessary.
– SIDNEY POITIER, 1992
Art by Christian Schloe.
‘Be happy’!
” ‘Be happy,’ cried the Nightingale. ‘You shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart’s-blood. All that I ask in return is that you be a true lover…’ ”
Oscar Wilde, “The Nightingale and the Rose”
Art by Christian Schloe.
Cruelty is not a shield but a system of betrayal
We are all Arya Stark and deft shape-shifters dancing on stories in order to survive. We are but one step into cruelty every minute on the way to achieving our goals.
Cruelty is not a shield but a system of betrayal.
We betray our shattered feelings and broken image of ourselves reflected in mirrors that don’t belong to us.
We betray our inability to live up to our vision and our words.
We give in to our doubts: “What if I am wrong, what if they don’t like me, what if I am not enough?” We betray our powerlessness of being happy in our own world. We surrender to an odd country we never dreamed about.
We betray our transcendent fear of living in a blur devoid of bounties we wouldn’t dare take with our own hands.
And we forget that “Anything can happen in a world that holds such beauty”- Peter S. Beagle.
Art by Christian Schloe.
Engleza de joi/ Tremendous
Tremendous = very great in amount or level, or extremely good:
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.”
–Erich Fromm
Art by Christian Schloe.