By: Fergus Carty 
On past the alarm clock’s rude beep dream,
and hold not the coming day cheap, dream.
Of the first bold bright rays of sunlight,
that beneath your drawn curtains creep, dream.
Throw back the folds, open the window
and lustily breathe life in deep, dream.
You are the one to see me naked,
leave my useless clothes in their heap, dream.
Remember if you can those cold nights,
when we felt both our hearts to leap, dream.
Ignore the cold eye the moon had cast,
while stealthy through the clouds did peep, dream.
Of what was sown all is not sterile,
believe there is much more to reap, dream.
Despite the weather warm rains will fall
and into softening earth seep, dream.
Throw turf on the fire and count the stars
and when you have done with the sheep, dream.
Feel warmth that is so much more than flame,
and so surrender then to sleep, dream.
If your body and your heart feel weak,
before these strange slopes so steep, dream.
A strong man’s pain is washed away,
when salty tears from our eyes weep, dream.
Fergus Carty
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
~Henri Amiel
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By: Joe Trava
As I began to breathe,
I don't recall, I can't explain,
the largest river flowed
in days with sun and rain.
It flowed so fast
and furious,
I tried my best
but couldn't rest.
I went along
the river deep,
the snowy mountain high,
the sky above
the clouds that cried,
and I dreamed of Jeannie
and I knew I loved her
don't ask me how,
don't ask me why.
It was her smile,
enchanting eyes,
or how she danced,
a silhouette that hypnotized me
in a journey of beautiful worlds.
Joe Trava
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
~Marsha Norman
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By: B. Mahfood
Heat spreads from my center,
touching fingertips, face, and toes.
This happens if I see or hear her
Heat spreads from my center,
weakness is my mentor,
how delighted are my foes.
Heat spreads from my center,
touching fingertips, face, and toes.
B. Mahfood
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Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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By: B. Mahfood
A fragrant lily
among thorns, sways in the breeze
And catches my eye
~~~~~~~
Waves crash, relentless
Heart pounds, can’t ever be calmed
Your form overwhelms
B. Mahfood
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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By: Alex Fischer
As I look 'cross the moonlit sky
I see a beautiful maiden standing nigh
Enraptured by her beauty and grace
I come towards her wanting to embrace
Your beauty and grace
For it is you I see standing o'er there
Love struck I come towards you without fear
I cannot believe that you are near
Since I am nothing but a mere damned fool
Compared to a goddess such as you
Is it allowed?
This love that a mortal like me has for a goddess like you?
Well that's not for me to decide
That's a decision for you
You're a goddess it's true
Alex Fischer
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
~Kahlil Gibran
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By: Fergus Carty
Grey curtains of rain were not enough,
To hide the tears on a bleakened field
And howling wind could not snatch away,
The angry shout to imagined heaven.
A cold sunny day could not quench,
A fired ego dwarfed by a small hillside.
Stumbling half-fallen over blades of grass,
Puffing arrogantly into a deflating self.
A sterile room turned sheet to shroud,
Could not perfect a lifeless death mask.
Stood, stared, in conflicted company
And re-wrote, edited, a total confusion.
Hands robotically offered amidst the incense,
Scribbled formulas, unfolded from memory, mumbled.
When hands were better clasped in silence,
Solace derived from the background murmur.
No wringer existed to squeeze the moisture,
From impervious pillow case covers.
The yellowing ledger cannot discount,
The one to whose name never answered.
Why do I now take these slim volumes from the shelf?
To proof read passages all out of print?
Why do I now leaf through dog eared pages?
When there is a mirror in the hall in which to view myself…
Fergus Carty
"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."
-Earl Nightingale
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By: Raymond J. Denzel
one should know
it will happen
one day
age creeping up
wear and tear
occupation contributes
wake from sleep
thought only
of pain
knee cries out
can't move
knifing shooting
left one aches
slowly move
careful
subsides for now
walking at work
right one starts
to click
heard by none
shrug it off
only thought
man's way
ignore it will
go away
suddenly
realized
my new world order
where is Dorothy
I need her now
oil can
oil can
squirt here
squirt there
squeak squeak
ahhh
feeling better
all better
wake up ToTo
no oil can
no relief
surprise
not in kansas
anymore
Raymond J. Denzel
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
-Orison Swett Marden
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By: Fergus Carty
Beneath the silent indifferent mountain is set its crib,
Where in some ancient time a luckless slope had slid,
The unremarked issue of a shallow dank smelling ditch,
Along untended, half-forgotten borders it opts to slip,
Among brown processing skeletons and fanning branch tips,
It flows on heedless that ever outward they marshal it,
In leaching rain a limestone open sore oozes choking grit,
And farm-yard run-off mingles slyly with eroding silt,
The stream rolls and slides, ducks beneath a broken bridge,
Where into swaying stands of rushes it crawls and limps,
Then bursts impatient and still tainted beyond the ridge,
Now rushing headlong down the short incline a-spill,
Bursting madly, briefly from between its earthen lips,
It shudders, stalls, and disappears amidst a greater swirl.
Fergus Carty
"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."
-Aristotle
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By: Joe Trava
Like fish in water I'd like to swim,
I'd like to fly like eagles,
like a bear in the forest
I want to live:
like leafy trees
that reach the lighted sky,
like unstoppable bees and never surrendering ants
I want to live:
like migrating birds,
like enduring dogs,
and always agile cats
in their struggle to survive:
like the majestic dolphin
in water I wish I could live.
Joe Trava
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."
-Denis Waitley
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By: Fergus Carty
O Lover!
in your eyes I placed the starlight,
and in your smile the sunshine bright.
O Lover!
it was I who likened your lips,
to reddest wine of sweetest sips.
O Lover!
your hair I told you was finest silk,
and your skin white as purest milk.
O Lover!
your voice I heard as gentlest music
that gives the weary heart a tonic.
O Lover!
I gilded the throne with my hands,
that upon the carved dais stands.
O Lover,
I know that you are your own person real…
but you’re not living up to my ideal!
O Lover?…
Fergus Carty
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-Marianne Williamson
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By: De'Shaun Prader
Your pain makes me feel sad
I hate when you are down
I hate to see you frown
I try to connect to you
Just to understand what you're feeling
I put our minds together
Just to understand your thoughts
Just to see what you
Are thinking
From there I will
Figure out what can be done
I’ll hold your hand to let
You see that I’m there for you
I promise you
That I love you
That’s why I’m here
To get through this with you
Trust me I have you
I'm close to your heart
I share your feelings with you
So your pain is not felt alone
Even the person that caused your pain
Has now and finally passed on
De'Shaun Prader
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
-Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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