November 2009
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Seedlings not planted, / benched perennials withered. / Limit the lament.
– @pfanderson (via haikuchallenge)
August 2008
24 posts
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it’s really masculine, phil
reading women like a book the way you do...
– Kennedy, Terry. “For Hatfield, the Radiologist.” Her Soul Beneath the Bone, ed. Leatrice H. Lifshitz. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (c)1988, p. 5.
I set out the new shoes
for the morning. I work. Nothing
will come between me...
– Skipper, Louie. “Yes, Light.” The Fourth Watch of the Night. Davis, CA: Swan Scythe Press, (c)2001, p. 35.
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Like a child constantly rebuilding the same Lego structure day after day, I have...
– Roche, David. The Church of 80% Sincerity. “A Perigee Book.” NY: Penguin, 2008, p. 126.
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‘The angels,’ he said, ‘have no senses; their experience is...
– Lewis, Clive Staples. C. S. Lewis on Joy. Nelson Publishers, 1998, p. 55.
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But still tomorrow
builds into my face
such island fortresses
of silence that...
– Adonis [‘Ali Ahmad Sa’id]. “The Pages of Day and Night.” The Pages of Day and Night, trans. Samuel Hazo. Evanston, Illinois: Marlboro Press / Northwestern University Press, 1994, p. 11.
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As I “galaxy-gaze” through time upon their diversity of colors,...
– Tyson, Neil deGrasse. “Onward to the Edge.” Natural History, July 1996. http://research.amnh.org/~tyson/18magazines_onwardtotheedge.php
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Other things are changed. Both Mother Darkness and Father Endless are with us...
– Tepper, Sheri S. Shadow’s End. NY: Bantam Books, (c) 1994, p. 452.
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Sometimes in dreams
my teeth got loose in my mouth …
Tinker, Tailor,...
– Lowell, Robert. “Suicide.” Day by Day. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, (c) 1975, p. 15.
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A boy these days took it for granted that he had work to do, and the men...
– L’Amour, Louis. “War Party.” Grub Line Rider. NY: Dorchester Publishing / Golden West Literary Agency, (c) 2007/2008, p. 187. ISBN: 978-0-8439-6065-5.
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The chancellor of the university has a privately funded study that he received...
– Beinhart, Larry. The Librarian. NY: Nation Books, (c) 2004, p. 5.
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What grows wild is doubly beautiful. / What grows wild is a disguise. / Not...
– Sylvester, Janet. “Goatsbeard. (1997)” Flora Poetica, The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse, ed. Sarah Maguire. London: Chatto and Windus, (c) 2001, p. 81.
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… I still remember a vivid dream I had on October 25, 1971. Swift was a...
– Grandin, Temple. ”Stairway to Heaven, Religion and Belief.” Thinking in Pictures, and Other Reports from My Life with Autism. NY: Vintage Books, (c) 1995, p. 195.
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But Wikipedia is the canonical bee that flies despite scientists’...
– Zittrain, Jonathan. The Future of the Internet, and How to Stop It. New Haven: Yale University Press, (c) 2008, p. 148.
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A moth ate songs — wolfed words!
That seems a weird dish — that a...
– A Feast of Creatures, Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs, trans. Craig Williamson. London: Scolar Press, (c)1982, p. 107.
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Come on in, please come in, and take some knowledge for free, no, no limit, keep...
– Beinhart, Larry. The Librarian. NY: Nation Books, (c)2004, p. 72.
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Sudden-impact disasters can be viewed as a continuous time sequence of five...
– Noji, Eric K. “The Nature of Disaster: General Characteristics and Public Health Effects.” The Public Health Consequences of Disasters, ed. EK Noji. NY: Oxford University Press, (c)1997, p. 13.
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Peace is not created with a one-time act: the cease-fire, accord, or...
– Cole, Ronald “Skip”; Crawford, Teresa. Building Peace Through Information and Communications Technologies. ICTs4Peace / United States Institute of Peace (USIP), June 2007. http://www.idealware.org/articles/peace_through_ICTs.php
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In trying to win you lose. … everyone loses.
– Saotome, Mitsugi. Aikido and the Nature of Harmony. http://www.bujindesign.com/aikido-harmony-nature-mitsugi-saotome-p-295.html
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If I become subjective about pain, no matter what causes it, then it becomes...
– L’Engle, Madeleine. A Circle of Quiet. NY: Crosswicks, (c) 1972, p. 53.
Translation: “But no one asked you to be happy. Work!”
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Today, man’s thought includes the globe.
– Buck, Pearl S. “Chapter 8, The Spirit Behind the Weapon.” What America Means to Me. NY: John Day Company, (c) 1943, p. 97.
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Perhaps the answer is to be found in a “mosaic of sharing” or partly...
– Somerville, Margaret. The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit. Toronto, Canada: Anansi Press / Canada Council for the Arts, (c)2006, p. 39.