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Suppose it said – and, yesit has been said, thatyou were made to beas much the same, as God,or, The Creator – orsome other word thatmeans as much –..

The tale I have to tell, children,is not a pretty one – so,PARENTAL SUPERVISION IS ADVISED;though on the other hand,as moral tales should, it hasa..

This, then, the questionfor those whom it may concern –to find a celebration in oneselfthat, as outer is, so inner;that all truth rests within..

I'm hooking all my tenters,marching like a frog,mandering my gerries -just need a standard for my bog!

It was his listening; he listenedto himself; he listened to himselflistening to his lute; his lute perforcelistened to itself; listened to..

The almond petalsfall as slow as snowflakeshoping that a poet passes.

and next to the world of heavenly gods,the world of ancestors…when ageing Indian fathers heard the callthat spoke some other world, they called their..

Blown rose, wild, white,thrown by snowflaked winter wind;summer’s tender scent, intense,dispersed; no mercy; beauty, blind…perfect petals torn by..

A tinker, a tailor, a soldier, a sailor...‘A one and a two and a three and a four, guys…’The amphibrach sings one of poetry’s basics;a metrical foot..

There’s this couplethey’re standing there, not close enoughto be about to kiss and separate,one for the train, the othermore slowly back, but..

and since they sayyou're the greatest American short story writer,I'm reading the one of yoursyou chose yourselfand as I'm readingI become two people..

I love to see the daffodils,they're just so very yellow.In jugs upon the window-sillsthey make me feel so mellow!But when the daffs begin to niffit..

Once upon a timein the forests of Ecuador -but this is a true story,who'd dare to make it up?there was and is todaya flower with a deep bell-like..

Read the newspapersfrom the back to the front, insteadand joy can catch you unawaresobituaries: all too often you just wishyou could have known them..

The Lord, the Merciful, has taught you this:created you; and gave you gift of speech;made order in the world; made plants and trees;which blessing of..

There’s frenzy in the kitchen:a pale yellow brimstone butterfly, frantic -fluttering dashes, dives, attacks,swerves and retreatsfrom the naked..

Within themselves, they holdmore than any man or woman should be asked to hold;they are the unsung heroes of the peacewhich clutches at the..

What I always say iswhen you get olderyou can't always remember whatwhat you always say is

Remembering as first and foremost, Allah,who knows of all your actions in His name,be courteous to all Children of the Book; forArab, Christian, Jew..

How can I, a temple, persuade youthat the boundless,the limitless,the eternal,the One,exist?I could tell you thatonly those who are boundrecognise..

The heart so loves to love,loves love, beyond the loving all;The mind so plays, so loves to play,plays with that greater playof love, that plays with..

It was a minor court case –a matter of a market traderselling maybe stolen goods,the police attempting, probably not for the first time,to get clear..

Living saints seem to be an endangered speciesthough nobody complainsso how about the ‘sustainable’ bit?How To Be a Saint isn’t yet in thatexpanding..

My friend the gardener who managesto combine romantic or ex-romanticwith realist and fine poet andloving gardener and teacherand much else..

This road.Nobody goes down it.But it's still there.(The first two lines of the haiku are in fact Basho's own; and there's said to be a..