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Better ice that melts than fire that extinguishes.
It is always the potato of another family's boy that extinguishes the fire.
On a Line from Valéry (The Gulf War)
The whole green sky is dying.The last tree flares
With a great burst of supernatural rose
Under a canopy of poisonous airs.
Could we imagine our return to prayers
To end in time before time's final throes,
The green sky dying as the last tree flares?
But we were young in judgement, old in years
Who could make peace; but it was war we chose,
To spread its canopy of poisoning airs.
Not all our children's pleas and women's fears
Could steer us from this hell.And now God knows
His whole green sky is dying as it flares.
Our crops of wheat have turned to fields of tares.
This dreadful century staggers to its close
And the sky dies for us, its poisoned heirs.
All rain was dust.Its granules were our tears.
Throats burst as universal winter rose
To kill the whole green sky, the last tree bare
Beneath its canopy of poisoned air.
poem by Carolyn Kizer
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A good word extinguishes more than a pailful of water.
Fast Train
Written by: myles goodwyn
I read the colors this mornin
I read the colors today
About a man who left from nowhere to be someone
And every day he has to pay in every way
I met a man from new york city
He spoke of things Ive yet to find
A good man driven from his homeland
Tryin to find some piece of mind
Its a fast train
Its a fast train
Its a fast train
Its a fast train
Its a fast train
Its a fast train
Its a fast train
Its a fast train
Its a fast train
Its a fast train
Its a fast train
Its a fast train
Its a fast train
song performed by by Kate Bush
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Gratefulness Cripples The Speed
How fast the monkey leaves the lower
that fast it reaches the upper branches.
How fast you forget the old
That fast you get the new,
That fast you grow fast.
The grateful men just linger
Holding the same brnach.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
quote by Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
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Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Optimism, vol. Poems of Pleasure (1900)
Submitted by George Budoi
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
quote by Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
quote by William Penn
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Mr Arctics, Mrs Antarticas
wait, be careful
fire and ice
the latter is usually
a foretaste of the former
go down the arctic
and you would greet fire
that could burn
the world a million times over
do not slight ice
there are flames
more destructive
than the eyes could see
and it usually starts with
the arctics we encounter
everyday - men who carry such a dry and cold land in them
you would froze in their midst
yet if you dig deeper, flame flares and you would be scarred or scalded
if you do not run fast enough
yes, the world would end in fire, with green eyed
ice fighting its way to the scenario as its curtain raiser
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
quote by La Rochefoucauld
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Hold Fast To The Right
Come and sit by the side of your mother my boy
You have only a moment I know
And stay while I give you this parting advice
It is all that I have to bestow
Hold fast to the right hold fast to the right
Wherever your footsteps may roam
Oh for sake not the the way of salvation my boy
That you've learned from your mother at home
In your satchel you'll find there's a Bible my boy
It's the book of all others the best
It will teach you to live and prepare you to die
And will take to the gates of the blest
Hold fast to the right hold fast to the right...
[ ac.guitar ]
Hold fast to the right hold fast to the right...
Oh hold fast to the right
song performed by by Dolly Parton
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Sun Is King Of The Skies
Sun is telling us to end microwave waves,
by making sun spots that interfere by it's rays.
Also Sun's sunspots will stop telecommunications
we don't know it but our brains send out vibrations
that are in synch with planet Earth's which is not a tribulation.
The magnetic field that is projected from solar flares
creates a magnetic storm and makes colorful skies
in which to stare.
The Aurora Borealis and Australis is the result of a solar
flare and it can pretty but also beware.
On Earth solar flares can disrupt radio signals and power grids
all satellites orbiting Earth can get hit because of solar winds.
Sun has it's way, does not want humans to have trash
in the skies to this day.
Sun and Earth will always rule in the end
follow the Mayan calendar my dear friend.
Written by Christina Sunrise on May 17,2012
poem by Christina Sunrise
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We Want Peace
Here it is once again in our face
Why havent we learned from our past
Were at the crossroads of the human race
Why are we kicking our own ass
We want peace, we want it
Yes we want peace, we want it
Yes we want peace
And we want it fast
We want peace, we want it
Yes we want peace, we want it
Yes we want peace
And we want it fast
Were on the eve of destruction my friends
We are about to go too far
Politicians think that war is the way
But we know that love has the power
We want peace, we want it
Yes we want peace, we want it
Yes we want peace
And we want it fast
We want peace, we want it
Yes we want peace, we want it
Yes we want peace
And we want it fast
The solution is simple and plain
There wont be peace if we dont try
In a war there is nothing to gain
And so many people will die
We want peace, we want it
Yes we want peace, we want it
Yes we want peace
And we want it fast
We want peace, we want it
Yes we want peace, we want it
Yes we want peace
And we want it fast
song performed by by Lenny Kravitz
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As Fast As I Can
Somewhere (somewhere) , it must be you (somewhere)
Ill come running to you (somewhere)
As fast as I can (as fast as I can )
As fast as I can (as fast as I can )
Somewhere (somewhere) , somewhere in the night (somewhere)
Be my guiding light (somewhere) and Ill come to you
As fast as I can (as fast as I can )
I dont know just where you are
You be my guiding light
I know somewhere there must be you for me
Somewhere (somewhere) , somewhere in the night (somewhere)
Be my guiding light ( somewhere) and Ill come to you
As fast as I can (as fast as I can )
As fast as I can (as fast as I can )
As fast as I can (as fast as I can ) [fade out]
song performed by by Bee Gees
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Silence
Over the forests the moon
Gleams pale, makes us dream,
The willow by the dark pond
Weeps soundlessly in the night.
A heart extinguishes - and placidly
The fogs flood and rise -
Silence, silence!
poem by Georg Trakl
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Fast Enough For You
If time were only part of the equation
Then you could draw the boundries of our cage
You wouldnt pile another stone upon me
And Id be happy just to watch you age
But everything is in its own dominion
And waiting in the shallows as I do
Appeases me as water slowly trickles out
Which isnt nearly fast enough for you
It isnt nearly fast enough for you
It isnt nearly fast enough for you
Its what I was afraid of
I stumble into view
But it isnt nearly fast enough for you
It isnt nearly fast enough for you
song performed by by Phish
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Angels Harmonic Serenade
stand upon thrilling flame sunlight lit cliff
above vast stretching river carved canyon
heights determination siren embryo calling
run fast take swift leap embracing wings faith
launch into flowing solar wind ride cosmic void
solar flares rapture songs of mind soul soaring
beams radiant pulse divine plasma joy of flight
angels harmonic serenade new birth form spreading
infinite light transcends vibrant flesh transforming
poem by Terence George Craddock
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