I's frustrated!
A
Burdock—clawed my Gown—
Who
went too near
The
Burdock's Den—
Here
I sit
With
my shoes mismated.
I
grow old . . . I grow old . . .
I
wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
At
times, indeed, almost ridiculous--
Almost,
at times, the Fool.
Lawdy-mercy!
I's
frustrated!
Bad
Morning, Langston Hughes; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
by
T. S. Eliot; A Burdock—clawed my Gown, Emily Dickinson
Earth
Oh! I have slipped the surly
bonds of earth and saw
she was small, light blue, and so
touchingly alone.
It suddenly struck me, that tiny
pea,
pretty and blue, was the Earth.
But look around at this world,
how perfectly it's made.
Flowers can't move, yet the
insects come
and spread their pollen.
Trees can't move, but birds and
animals
eat their fruit and carry their
seeds far and wide.
And forget not that the earth
delights
to feel your bare feet
and the winds
long to play with your hair.
Our planet is a glimpse of
divinity.
Rocks pray, pebbles and boulders
and old weathered hills. They are still and silent,
and those are two important ways
to pray.
Earth's crammed with heaven...
But only he who sees, takes off
his shoes.
A compilation from quotes and
poems by:
High
Flight, John
Gillespie Magee, Nahoko Uehashi, Moribito:
Guardian of the Spirit, Kahlil Gibran quote – And forget not…, Neil
Armstrong quote – It suddenly struck me…., Douglas Wood, Grandad's
Prayers of the Earth,
Edgar Mitchell quote- Our planet is a glimpse…, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Aurora
Leigh
