Make voyages - Attempt them - there's nothing else...
quote by Tennessee Williams
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God Here I Am
Had walked the path
Had climbed this rocky mountain
Had done with boulders
Had done with thorn pricks
Here I am on my knees
Up the stars twinkle
Up the moon gives a wink
Up the clouds clear, feathery soft
Up my arms in supplication
Here I am in between peak and sky
Voyages were done
Voyages of a lonely soul seeking
Voyages of time and space clouded
Voyages where tunnel lights dimmed
Here I am in peak and a cliff dead bones below!
God here
God there
God for peace
God of fate
Here I am your timely message I trumpet
Here my little wings will do
Here my blood vessels will do
Here my Trumpet will do
Here my soul will fly and call for wisdom
Here at the peak I am yours as made be!
poem by Charles Jagongo Ogola
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Mind Fed Rituals
When determined people,
Pray to God to have their way...
And God sends to them messengers,
To scream from bullhorns...
This is not going to happen.
Leave people like this.
Do not attempt to make bargains...
With the use of common sense.
Leave people like this.
These people only value,
The physical aspects of life.
People like this will make their mission,
To enlist others to value their point of view.
Even to select and depict those unknowing,
They have been chosen as culprits...
By someone who did not like,
How they were told...
To remove their rose colored glasses!
Leave people like this.
Do not attempt to make bargains...
With the use of common sense.
Leave people like this.
These people only value,
The physical aspects of life.
And the 'spiritual' side of it...
Is a routine of mind fed rituals,
Outdated by a lack indepth perception.
Leave people like this.
Do not attempt to make bargains...
With the use of common sense.
A common sense for many,
That has been diluted.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The Owners Of The Little Box
Line the inside of the little box
With your precious skin
And make yourself cozy
Just as you would in your own home
Make space voyages inside her
Gather stars make time squirt its milk
And sleep in the clouds
Just don't go around pretending
You're more important than her length
And wiser than her width
If you do we'll sell her for a song
Your box and everything inside her
To the first fleecer to the wind
We don't care about profit
And we don't keep spoiled goods
So don't keep saying
It's we who told you this
From inside the little box
poem by Vasko Popa
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Maverick Voyages
Startling is the absence of vision.
It is clear these maverick voyages...
Have aborted from specifics.
It is as if an advancement towards the horizon,
Has been legislated to be dismissed.
And debating this,
Has led to retaliation.
And a resistance against its existence.
Maverick voyages have been declared annoyances!
Not connecting or allowed,
Is an acceptance of diversity.
Not connecting or allowed,
Is an empathy for those in need.
Not connecting or allowed,
Is an equality of all humanity.
Not connecting or allowed,
Is an honesty believed or released.
Not connecting or allowed,
Is a hope that is wished!
However...
Balled fists prepared to strike and hit,
Is allowed to connect and inflict...
More hatred.
More resentment.
More bitterness...
Sitting in between grinding teeth that grit and spit!
Until all goodness felt,
Has been lifted to leave...
A mass obsession,
Depressed in aggressive anger!
Startling is the absence of vision.
It is clear these maverick voyages...
Have aborted from specifics.
It is as if an advancement towards the horizon,
Has been legislated to be dismissed.
And debating this,
Has led to retaliation.
And a resistance against its existence.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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You Don't Believe
You don't believe -- I won't attempt to make ye:
You are asleep -- I won't attempt to wake ye.
Sleep on! sleep on! while in your pleasant dreams
Of Reason you may drink of Life's clear streams.
Reason and Newton, they are quite two things;
For so the swallow and the sparrow sings.
Reason says `Miracle': Newton says `Doubt.'
Aye! that's the way to make all Nature out.
`Doubt, doubt, and don't believe without experiment':
That is the very thing that Jesus meant,
When He said `Only believe! believe and try!
Try, try, and never mind the reason why!'
poem by William Blake
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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
quote by Robert H. Schuller
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Les Voyages
Les voyages
In the ships
That I took
All over the
Atlantic Ocean
poem by Aldo Kraas
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Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
quote by George William Curtis
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Procrastinations Created to Make An Erasing
No excuses are better made,
Than those insecure that make them.
A beating around the bush,
Whether conscious or not.
Is not done quite as well...
As those who attempt to escape,
From hesitated procrastinations.
Created to make,
An erasing of their accountability!
People like this are easily offended.
Believing their disrespect for others,
Should be condoned.
People like this,
Anticipate being appreciated!
For making mediocrity enforced upon others.
With a downgrading of their expectations.
And communicating that,
To entrap as this is shown!
No excuses are better made,
Than those insecure that make them.
A beating around the bush,
Whether conscious or not.
Is not done quite as well...
As those who attempt to escape,
From hesitated procrastinations.
Created to make,
An erasing of their accountability!
And as incredible as this may be...
People extend to them patience,
With comprehension.
Instead of giving them a boot to the curb!
Asked for and deserved!
A lack of discipline should never be rewarded.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before.
quote by Gene Roddenberry
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages — and it is easier to stay at home.
quote by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
quote by Gwendolyn Brooks
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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
quote by Amelia Barr
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
quote by Blaise Pascal
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A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
quote by Robert Heinlein
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The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.
quote by Fred Hoyle
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Voyage Singulier
VOYAGE SINGULIER
Singulier destin dont le but se déplace
Où l'homme attend, espère, et ne jamais se lasse,
Poursuivant le repos, court toujours commun fou,
Hanté par la chance qui le poursuit partout.
Il est ces voyages menant vers la crevasse,
Et l'abîme ménace, ouvert et absolu.
Sortons de l'insipide, et banal et connu,
Où les réponses agacent, ou incongrues ou crasses,
Pour retrouver plutôt, sans faux-semblants qui lassent,
Heureux, integre écho des tournants imprévus.
Il est de ces voyages impromptus qui embrassent
En même temps déjà-vu, ainsi que l'inconnu.
Sortons des chemins plats, des sentiers battus,
Où tout décision est remise, où l'on casse
Par peur des différences, l'unique, - s'en débarasse
Honteusement les traces du progrès partout.
Il est de ces voyages qui gènent et qui harassent
Empire des ronds de cuir en place qui tant tue.
Si l'on cherche sa voie que toujours on la trace
Ouvrant grand le chemin vers paradis perdu,
Pour déjouer les toiles et pièges du sans issue,
Harassement, contraintes, et le temps trop fugace.
Il est de ces voyages dont la fin nous dépasse,
Et pourtant on s'arrange pour que ça continue.
Soyons plus optimistes, pour conquérir l'espace
Ou sonder l'océan, ce pour briser la glace.
Pouvons nous echapper du temps, toujours vorace?
Hystérie de la masse et espoirs saugrenus!
Il est de ces voyages qui l'attente dépassent,
Et l'immortalité reste pourtant rêve fou.
Sans cesse on se recherche, se cherchant dans sa glace,
Occultant son essence, et en sortant vaincu:
Pourtant ce n'es pas faute des essais assidus!
Hier, qussi demain, sont scellés sous cadensasse.
Il est de ces voyages dont le secret en tout,
Et pour tous est caché, même des dieux de Parnasse.
Sans cesse, jusqu'à la fin le jeu se perpétue,
Offrant à qui survit amusement surface,
Pourtant et néanmoins, tout termine en impasse!
Hors les rails du destin, les tentatives échuent.
Il est de ces voyages, déplacements fallaces,
Et même au plus ténace, d'avance perduus - chahut!
Fleurs du Mal CXXVI
cf BAUDELAIRE
Only part extant of total acrostic Sophie series Fleurs du Mal
5 November 1990
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poem by Jonathan Robin
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The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
quote by Julien Green
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To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
quote by Frank Herbert
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Life
Life's a name
That nothing here can truly claim;
This wretched inn, where we scarce stay to bait,
We call our dwelling-place!
And mighty voyages we take,
And mighty journeys seem to make,
O'er sea and land, the little point that has no space.
Because we fight and battles gain,
Some captives call, and say, 'the rest are slain';
Because we heap up yellow earth, and so
Rich, valiant, wise, and virtuous seem to grow;
Because we draw a long nobility
From hieroglyphic proofs of heraldry-
We grow at last by Custom to believe,
That really we Live;
Whilst all these Shadows, that for Things we take,
Are but the empty Dreams which in Death's sleep we make.
poem by Abraham Cowley
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