In a crowd
Heart feels lost;
A lonely place

A: I'm lonely here.
B: No. I'm here.
A: No, you're a liar. I know what you do to my friends over there, and I came to stop you.
B: You'll sacrifice yourself for them?
A: I've done it before.
B: And they never thanked you.
A: Friends are not meant to say thank you. They're not meant to be there when you need them, when it's important. No, friends are the ones who stay despite everything.

- Marianne

Whether you can or can't, you're right. - Henry Ford

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep. - Taraji P. Henson

Kobayashi Issa

Don’t weep, insects –
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part.

Fish in swimming pool

All swim towards the dropped bread

Once again clean pool

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize we cannot eat money. - Cree Indian Proverb

Let me fall if I must fall. The one I will become will catch me. - The Baal Shem Tov

Black clouds invites dusk

leaves crumble, blown away by wind

Walking in Autum

Belly down on bed

Face buried in the pillow

Thoughts in la la land

Don't you ever feel

Yet you can't say anything

But just feel it through

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light. And what is elusice and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after truth. Mahatama Gandhi

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. - Buddha

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one of the ugliest haiku ever

The soft cheeseburger

Lay there by the window sill

Facing the big street

Maya Angelou

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

cherry blossoms bloom

Columbus to Washington 

each tree greets the sun

Lu Tung Pin

What is Tao?
It is just this.
It cannot be rendered into speech.
If you insist on an explanation,
This means exactly this.

Henry David Thoreau

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.

Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Lao Tzu

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Movies of the night,
dreams open us to new worlds
of dread and delight.

Paulo Coelho

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Fake it till you make it -- 

-- Tripping over shoelaces

I should just wear boots

The white baby finch

What takes a flap to soar high

huffs and puffs to float

Buson

the white dew

on each thorn of the bramble

a dew drop

alignment of time

it's not as easy to tell

still you feel present

 Blood spilled on the throne

Arrows black out all the light

 O hail to the king

Paul Valery

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Benjamin Franklin and Blossom from the Powerpuff Girls

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Early to bed, early to wake, makes a lady smart, pretty, and great. 

Terri Guillemets

The time just before dawn contains the most energy of all hours of the day. This has helped me become an early riser and an early doer. When I wake to see that it’s light out already, I feel the world has started without me.

Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

My monkey mind jumps

How did I get from my bed

To my favorite shop?

Hilarious Generator

Unthinkable click
For a sacred, bright tree sleeps
whilst watching the mage

Pepperoni donuts

A perfect combination

For this Sunday brunch

St. Valentine right?

To all your lovestruck people,

Do the arrows hurt??

Row row row your boat.
Rowing gently down the stream.
Life is so extreme.

Consumerism

Paid quite a bit for the dress

But it was worth it

The warmness of tea

Travels down my throat; at ease.

I let out a sigh.

Cold draft from the vents

creeps up from the new heater

I rather cover it

Michael Flores Caasi

Face your hardest tasks
with might and sweet sense of pride
Do them, complain not.

Matsuo Basho

水仙や
白き障子の
とも移り

The narcissus
With the white a shoji screen
Shines together.

Today is the year

the pig digs its nose in dirt

for the raspberries

Matsuo Basho

Year after year
on the monkey’s face
a monkey’s face.

Buffy: I need to talk to you.
Willow: Good. Cause, I've been letting things fester. And I don't like it. I want to be fester-free.

-from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Finding Direction in Life: Where are you going? - Aaron Karmin

A: Come with me.

B Where are we going master?

A: ... 

B: Why are we doing this? I don't see the point.

A: ...

B: Why are we journeying?

A: ...

B: Where are we going?

A: :) What do you see?

B: I can see the rock and the moss, but they are not as beautiful as the grass in the fields... I can see the wildflower, but it is nothing compared to the flowers in the meadow... I can see the mouse, and the small trickle on the mountain here, which is nothing compared to the torrent of the falls!

A: Is there more? 

B: The only other thing I see, Master, is our path.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

The only thing complaining does is convince other people that you are not in control.

Albert Einstein

We cannot solve problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Dr. Suess

Be who you are and what you feel, because in the end those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

(possible example of an antimetabole)

Carl Jung

You are what you do, not what you say you do.

child turned savage

 when rescued by an adult

innocence returns

These 8 year old boots

Uncannily resistant

Walks on new year's snow

The circle of life

Little man receives the love

to give to his son

Basho

All this foolishness
About moons and blossoms
Pricked by the cold’s needle.

Lunar New Year

More than *justttt* fireworks

The day begins with the first

animal calling.

Gozan

The snow of yesterday
That fell like cherry blossoms
Is water once again

In this windy day

Students have conversations

without speaking words

Revisit Minecraft

I genuinely enjoy

Making a village

William Barclay

There are two great days in a person's life - 

the day we are born 

and the day we discover why.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Ausonius
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Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Ausonius
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Mary Kendall

Fog filled woods~
even the winter moon
has lost its way

Vivein Jones

Who needs umbrellas ?
Hail, gale or snow, you have me
Laughing in the rain

Charles Michaels

and still I stand here
fogging the window,staring -
a tree twice my age

Indie music

So grounded and gentle like

butterfly stomach

Mary Kendall

a winter walk
footprints
tell no tales

Sounds of the Night

Sounds can be meditative--

There goes the sound of tires 

waning along the avenue

A cat tucked under my shoulder

purring himself to sleep

Rooftop fans

squeaking in the winds

Windows clacking

as specks of fragmented metropolitan

tap against the glass

Beth Eaglescliffe

A silent blanket

giving earth a duvet day

Nature’s chance to rest

Calvin Olsen

Sunrise. Neighbors stir:
Music and the smell of toast
Wafting through the walls

The black and white keys

flutter, trilling by your hand;

The last Movement ends.

Doorbell rings

I came out expecting you

Alas a surprise

My Dream

Checker Board Flying

had me in all emotions

story ends on grass