What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
quote by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Inversnaid
This darksome burn, horseback brown,
His rollrock highroad roaring down,
In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
Flutes and low to the lake falls home.
A windpuff-bonnet of fawn-froth
Turns and twindles over the broth
Of a pool so pitchblack, fell-frowning,
It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning.
Degged with dew, dappled with dew,
Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through,
Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern,
And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Wildness
Oh the nights were wild
as wild as they could be,
and I welcomed every night that came
for I was as wild as thee.
And as wildness took us
wherever we hoped to be
we looked forward to new adventures
where wildness made us free
to explore our love
with wild abandon
and from which we cannot flee.
For the call of the wild is intoxicating.
This call is our destiny.
poem by Edwina Reizer
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That First Taste Of Wildness
oh, that first taste of wildness,
danger electric, intoxicating,
walking on the edge,
flapping your arms
...as if you could fly!
the first kiss, the first warm bodied
lover naked in your arms,
the first taste of flesh....
the first whisper of secrets exchanged,
the first tear of parting.
the first battle fought, the first time
knocked down, struggling to your feet,
the first taste of blood,
the first questions why,
the first resolve to endure!
the first bareback ride,
the first motorcycle too fast,
the first spinning out of control....
the first laugh to hide your fear,
the first brush with mortality!
oh, that first taste of wildness,
that never leaves your mouth!
(inspired by a poem written by Shadow Girl)
poem by Eric Cockrell
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In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau in Walking, 1862
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
quote by H.G. Wells
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The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.
quote by Tracy Kidder
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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
quote by Charles Lindbergh
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Mirroring water,
sky mountain's wildness daughter;
- in new spring tauter!
haiku by Peter S. Quinn
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Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive.
quote by David Assael
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There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
quote by Emily Carr
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They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness.
Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.
quote by Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Queen Gertrude: And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish
That your good beauties be the happy cause
Of Hamlet's wildness: so shall I hope your virtues
Will bring him to his wonted way again,
To both your honours.
line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Weeps With Prayer
burning...
branches longing for fire,
that once reached for the sky.
aching, hungry,
sharp edges on the glass.
rhythm, beat,
and nightfall,
ready for the taste.
tongue electric,
searching,
every crevice of the cave.
wings dusted,
flap with the anger,
too long in the cage.
fangs beared, heavy breathing,
images bent by brandy.
smoke, and wildness,
who left the door unlocked?
be it a beast, or an angel,
hurried in the quick of time.
creek rising,
clouds wonded with darkness...
the wolf runs
the path forbidden,
even the moon weeps with prayer!
poem by Eric Cockrell
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Intimacies Of The Nights
do not tell your name to the night
for you may be finally embarrassed
humiliated by the standards of the
day, the strictness of light
that binds and blinds
to the wildness of the nights
submit, but always be concealed
like the hidden face of the back room
the curtains of the door
the bowls of the rest rooms.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The Heart Too Asks For Pleasure
do not underestimate the heart
it too shall take pleasure
it is not pure love
as gentle as the softness of the
cloud that merely drifts
upon the orders of the wind
it also know what pleasure is
so appease it with the wildness
of your love: crush it with the strength
of your loving arms.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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An Oath
Amongst the vast beauty,
in the beauty of nature,
standing between stiff hill,
below the restless river,
I took an oath, in the name of god.
I won't let my love go,
without any proper worth,
how covetous it be though.
I'll change your wildness,
your untamed desire of life.
Turning you to a gentle doll,
I'll take all your strife.
poem by Nilakshi Das
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No One Who Has Loved Their Child
NO ONE WHO HAS LOVED THEIR CHILD
No one who has cared for their child,
And knows the wildness of its caring
Can compare any fear
To this fear for the safety of the child.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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From Me To You
Let the gentle wind me my breath around
you, the vast sky be my present , the
sound of the ocean be my voice. The sands
at the beach be the number of times i
proclaim my love to you. The wildness of the
ocean represent what we had, till we meet again,
from me to you..
poem by Enyinwa Okechukwu Enyinwa
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Pretender
You pretend, you hide
You turn your face away
Reality is an illusion
And disillusioned you stay
You say the animal calls
But you're more human than me
What is uncaged wildness
Just human emotion set free
The oyster i once called you
Your little shell you defend
A pretender you are
You do nought nut pretend
poem by Richa Mehta
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