Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
quote by Thornton Wilder
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
quote by Anne Lamott
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
quote by Jim Morrison
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
quote by Miguel de Cervantes
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
quote by Leon Trotsky
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
quote by Thomas Edison
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Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
quote by Frederick Soddy
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We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.
quote by Jay Inslee
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Even if the whole world conspired against you -- that would not inflict a quarter of the harm you inflict yourself.
Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.
quote by Doug Coupland
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The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
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That Terrifying Enemy
Two weeks after I graduated from high school,
I was in the Air Force.
Patriotic and eighteen.
Scared as hell during basic training...
But ready to kick plenty of ass!
And working hard during the week,
To receive a weekend pass!
Time seemed less urgent then!
We knew we would accomplish things!
And certain we were we would win!
Fourty-three years ago...
I wanted it known I wished to save souls then.
I wanted to be a pilot and fly,
But I became a poet with a pen!
And times have changed since then as well!
Now it is not clear,
Who is fighting for what and 'why' it should matter?
We have consciously let our treasured ideals...
Lose it's appeal to keep falsities,
In minds scattered!
And those with barely any military experience at all...
Have taken my home,
And given it away.
For a price we all now pay!
Greed has been that terrifying enemy,
That has brought upon us a failure.
Greed has been that terrifying enemy,
That has brought to us this grief!
Greed has been that terrifying enemy,
That brings us no relief...
To cease and/or free us!
Greed has been that terrifying enemy,
That has been camouflaging peace!
And the awareness of this has increased!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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A Rich Life
All life
is but a dream
dream well
with truth beauty
so that others
may share preserve
these inspired ideals this reality
glorifying sacred life.
Dream rich dreams
others may share.
Perpetuate natural beauty holy
inspiring preserved pristine reserves
our children may wander in
our children may still wonder at.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Edgecrusher
Conceived in a hell beyond your depth of perception
Chaotic case of conquering domination
Psychopath snaps fired chains of imprisonment
A bludgeoning force thats undermining the government
Inflict strain upon the structure
Collapsing below my pressure
Inflict strain upon the structure
Collapsing below my pressure
Break of the edgecrusher...
The purist, non-conformist, jaded subhuman terrorist
From flesh to steel and blood to blade I fight to exist
A rival of justice, extreme rush of hatred
Survival in a twisted world where nothing is sacred
Inflict strain upon the structure
Collapsing below my pressure
Inflict strain upon the structure
Collapsing below my pressure
Break of the edgecrusher...
song performed by by Fear Factory
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John The Odd
With other children games he did not play
When they played football he would steal away
To take short walk or rest in shade of tree
He felt happy in his own company.
He did not have sporting hero as a god
And other children called him 'John the odd'
And other put down names like idiot and fool
But he ignored their taunts and kept his cool.
He loved Nature and Nature was his friend
And his leisure hours out with Nature he spend
And 'twas Nature first taught him to be a poet
And to her children his first rhymes he wrote.
He wrote of Nature's creatures living free
The birds of song who live on bush and tree
The animals that live on land and sea
He loved Nature and her huge family.
From their schooldays men recall John the odd
They say he went to join his Nature God
One morning he left home for far away
And none know of his whereabouts today.
With other boys he did not play football
And those who went to school with him recall
That with Nature he spent his leisure time
And 'twas Mother Nature who taught him how to rhyme.
poem by Francis Duggan
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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
quote by Albert Camus
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Thirteen Lines
A brain peered through stoic eyes;
Yet all it saw was rendered into
Flawed interpretation –
No honoured contemplation of a
Gluon, muon, quark of any flavour;
Nor a vision or conception of its world
Within a universe anthropic in its physical laws,
Inside a boundless multiverse.
All it gleaned and modelled
Bore parochialism well beyond belief! –
Delusional perhaps.
Survival only matters here on planet Earth –
Evolution saw to that.
Copyright © Mark R Slaughter 2010
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poem by Mark R Slaughter
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In the name of God
Most numb their pain, their issues, repress them, they never face them, give them to God, therefor they never move past them and they inflict them on others, mostly their children in the name of God.
poem by Michael Kavuoti
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A Jester’s Kingdom
Inflict a wound
Serve a purpose
Do as you’re told
Serve a purpose
Cut the throat
Save a soul
Let’s see who gives a damn
Worlds forgotten
Blinded pathways
Lost soul’s die
Corruption reigns supreme
Religious hypocrites
Ride the crusaders corpses
Inflict a wound
Serve a purpose
Do as you’re told
Make me proud
A jester’s kingdom
Bastards live above
The broken man
Twist his hand
Pay penance
Thy lord commands thee
Murder innocent children
Convert, destroy, convert, destroy
poem by Paul Fisher
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Potatoes
Nowadays
Life has
Become
So hectic
With long
Working
Hours…
Extended
Weekend
Duties…
Cut-throat
Competition
Menaci ng
Deadlines,
Work-from-home
Facilities
Making home
Seem
More of an
Office
Than a
Refuge
For
Families.
The ever-increasing
Expenses
Fuelling
The need for
Endless
Job changes
To boost our
Existing
Incomes,
Not forgetting
The need
To be at par
With our
Neighbours'
Opulences ;)
In this ongoing
Race to be
Better than the
Best, depriving
Our body
Of its
Much needed
Rest -
We even
Forget to
Look out of
The window.
And even if we
Do, we might be
Blessed with some
Lovely sights of
Trees, birds and bees
That is, if we have,
A garden of our own.
But given the
Urbanisation
Of our habitation
We might just
Look out of our
Windows -
And find ourselves
Peeping into our
Neighbour's privacy
As the houses are so
Closely built due to
Lack of space and
Land scarcity…
Anyway,
Since there is
No time
For our
Weekend
Outings and
Garden parties
In our
Ever diminishing
Nature reserves…
And country parks
So how do we
Savour nature?
No, not by
Mulling over
The fact -
That our children
Know the ‘windows'
Of our PCs better ;)
Than the windows
Of our homes....
But by relishing
Beautiful nature
Through Google
Yahoo, Bing,
Facebook and
Getty images ;)
And if they all
Fall short of our
Viewing pleasure
We can always
Bank upon
Our screen-savers
And desktop
Backgrounds
For enhancing
Our savouring
Of nature's
Beauty :)
Not to mention
Those endless…
Nature forwards
That coagulate -
Our mail-boxes ;)
And if our eyes
Still don't feel
Green and refreshed
Enough ;)
How about
Switching on
The Telly and
Watching some
Countryside
Documentaries
To make us feel
Ever so close to
Nature, so much so
That nature grins at us
And says:
Don't get me wrong,
My dearies…
But my earth's
Potatoes
Look far more
Healthier
Than ye
Couch potatoes!
poem by Aparna Chatterjee
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