I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.
However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
It's hard work. It's really hard work, but it's really interesting. We have this camera, I think it's called a SimulCam, and when you play it back, you can see the giant in the scene you just shot. It's incredible. You're reacting to a tennis ball that's way up there, then when you watch it, it's this huge giant's face on it. Wow. That's cool. I just can't wait to see it when it's all edited together and the special effects are all crystal clear. It's going to be, hopefully, amazing.
The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.
The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it. " The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?