Poetry Quotes Quotes

If I were a flower,humming bird would be my favourite beeAnd If I were blind,the light of darkness I'd love to see

~ Munia Khan

The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out-

~ Emily Dickinson

we are all like poems. some of us rhyme. some don’t. some are Pulitzer prizessome are just scribblesand yet, we all possessa special kind of beautythat can either heal or cut to the boneone that can never quitebe fathomed, nor forgotten.

~ Sanober Khan

holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free.

~ Sanober Khan

The searing light of morningAsks unwelcome questions,Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.

~ Scott Hastie

...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night...

~ John Geddes

give mea pillow of strongever-dependable shouldersthat i can bury my head in.

~ Sanober Khan

I see You, Every time I look into Buddha’s eyes. I give myself to You. Every time I alter one of Your 1,000s names. Honestly & fully I love You. Through Christ and Maria, Shiva and Shakti, Krishna and Radha, With every day that passes and every breath I take. I enter gratitude for receiving Your Love. Obeying Your Laws of Truthfulness and Ahimsa, Weaving Prana With hearts and souls of Gaia. Through mysticism, shamanism, sufism, and ecstatic meditations. I yearn to touch You, to feel You, to be You. Within this amazing Journey of Awareness of Your Consciousness.

~ Nataša Nuit Pantović

The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven.

~ Scott Hastie

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streetsAnd the music of fresh fallen leavesCaught in a sliding summer breeze.

~ Scott Hastie

Unforgiveness,splinter in your breastbone, lives there lodged like a small tree.Withers in winter, looms in spring. Its fruit is sweet on first bite, then turns into the taste of your own flesh.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Tomorrow camewith the illusion of todayeven more fleeting than yesterdayit camelike it always comesand wentlike it’s always gonelike a favorite song in its final secondsTomorrow came and leftleaving nothingnothing...but a familiarlingeringsense of loss behind.

~ Sanober Khan

most of the timesit’s the hardest to saywhat I love moreyouor your memory.

~ Sanober Khan

love canembellish its beginningsing its blossomingand engrave its eternitiesbut can never explain its loss.

~ Sanober Khan

I left smiles on your wordless lipsThe night roads- dismal and narrow,dream’s path remains shadowy wideas our lone hearts felt that arrowFrom the Poem 'My Tomorrow

~ Munia Khan

All's taken away: my love and my power.The body, thrown into city it hates,Finds no joy in the sunlight. With every hourThe blood grows colder in my veins.

~ Anna Akhmatova

Sometimesthe things that make you cryare more beautifulthan the thingsthat make you laugh.

~ Sanober Khan

And did with sighs their fate deplore,Since I must shelter them no more;And if before my joys were such,In having heard, and seen too much,My grief must be as great and high,When all abandoned I shall be,Doomed to a silent destiny.

~ Aphra Behn

There is somethingmystically sadand beautifulabouthowi will neversee youagainbut meet youagain and againin poetry.

~ Sanober Khan

In past wars only homes burnt, but this timeDon't be surprised if even loneliness ignites.In past wars only bodys burnt, but this timeDon't be surprised if even shadows ignite.

~ Sahir Ludhianvi

The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Back BurnerPut the stress on the back burnerIt only burns its way backPut your thoughts on the futureand it becomes the past...excerpt from my poem Back Burner from The Poetic Diary of Love and Change - Volume 1©Clarissa O. Clemens

~ Clarissa O. Clemens

Life is like facing two mirrors at each other: There is no beginning, no end. Just the beauty within the reflected infinity

~ Michael Biondi

Poetry can take you places that were once only traveled by your imagination.

~ Delano Johnson

If I’m not around I hope you’ll remember me and together we will hold on to our favorite song.

~ Sanober Khan

Breezy daysdeserve the unionof two old friends.

~ Sanober Khan

our feet are grape-squashed in memoriesour skins are still flushedfrom the touch of summer’s lips.

~ Sanober Khan

I am more than good enoughTo accomplish everything I can be,I will wake up todayThe history could have been different.But I am here now.

~ Priscilla Koranteng

You'd think hindsight would do us some goodBut all it does sometimesIs add glass to the kaleidoscope

~ J.d. Estrada

I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory.

~ Sanober Khan

...I want to live doubly - first with you and then afterwards in memory ...

~ John Geddes

The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts.

~ Sanober Khan

Tea is just an excuse.i am drinking this sunset, this evening.and you.

~ Sanober Khan

Fall in lovewith the energyof the morningstrace your fingers along the lullof the afternoonstake the spirit of the eveningsin your armskiss it deeply and thenmake loveto the tranquilityof the nights.

~ Sanober Khan

your gazeacrossmy cheeksturned theminto strawberry fields.

~ Sanober Khan

There is a defect in usas human beingsbecause we think ourselvesa fortress, a mountain, unbreakablebut at the centerin that stillness of beingthere is a chasmof lovewhich echoes hope, compassion, empathytry again, it saysand though the fault lines are full of darknesswe are held together bythe optimism and foolishness of a single spark

~ Nadia Hasan

The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded.But if you knew this secret from the start,then you'd have quit this Game before you played it.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

No matter who’s looking at you, love, honesty, and kindness will always make you beautiful!

~ Delano Johnson

In my errant life I roamedTo learn the secrets of women and men,Of gods and dreams.I've known all the countries of our world,I've lived a thousand lives:Many lives I lived in love, Other lives I squandered.For in my life I never traveled, All I did was wander.

~ Roman Payne

Some days I don't know what is greater.My wisdom, or my stupidity.

~ Sanober Khan