SHE'S THE YOUTH OF A THOUSAND SUMMERS.
by Lowell Poe
Out of the west,
of women song and sun,
and throngs of cyber air waves,
is the Eve of every Adam,
the maiden who saves herself,
the damsel who's only distress
is the endless search for words,
that will fill her heart,
and yours.
No man or woman would
find a better friend.
Her absents from my sight
would never diminish
her power and her beauty
that her poems bring.
Out from the dusty plains
to the urban cities,
she reverberates in my soul.
She guards and comforts my spirit.
Where ever I may roam
her poetry in scrolls
that lie by my nap sack
are read by my fire
like prayers to my heart.
Hearken back to the days of yore!
When her words
would have soothed
the roaming nomads.
See the present unfold,
as you whisper her heart,
in her literature.
Look towards the
uncertain future bravely.
Her words will comfort you.
You can use them,
share them.
They are for us all.
her gift to strangers,
her gift to me,
as I stand
undeserving,
but forever grateful.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb
Children have more need of models than of critics.
- Joseph Joubert
Enthusiasm is the engine of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not what happiness really is.
- Alanis Morissette
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
Keep away from angry, short-tempered men, lest you learn to be like them and endanger your soul.
- Proverbs 22:24-25
Let your heart be awakened to the transforming power of gratefulness.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Not all who wander are lost.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
- Dinah Craik
Reality is merely an illusion...albeit a persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
...Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from "Faust"
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed
- Storm Jameson
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' "
— John Greenleaf Whittier
"Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a
wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously. "
— Tom Robbins
"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."
— Jimi Hendrix
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity. "
— Gilda Radner
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."
— Ayn Rand
"...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
— Khaled Hosseini
"Everything you can imagine is real. "
— Pablo Picasso
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde
"I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou
"Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly.
Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably.
And never forget anything that made you smile."
"Seduce my mind, ensnare my heart, capture my soul, and my body is yours completely."
""Endlessly falling apart, like a puzzle on an uneven surface. Just can't stay together. And who could love me when I'm in so many pieces?" ~Enkeli from AP
"I awake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep, I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time."
of Bob Dylan, I'm Not There 2007
"Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind; don't assign me yours."
Clementine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
Augusten Burroughs
"I'd rather be hated for what I am than loved for what I'm not."
Kurt Cobain
"The only mistake in loving someone is not telling them the extent of that love in that moment that it is born... Love will not stick around even for a second of untruth."
Terrence Davin Jetter
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
Maya Angelou
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
George Carlin
"A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums."
Hunter S. Thompson
"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
Sylvia Plath
"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
C. S. Lewis
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
Voltaire
“Love truth, but pardon error”
Voltaire
"What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection."
Oprah Winfrey
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Thoreau
""There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life." - Mother Theresa
“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours”
Swedish Proverb
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -
--Theodor Geisel; Dr Suess
Fall in love or fall in hate. Get inspired or be depressed. Ace a test or flunk a class. Make babies or make art. Speak the truth or lie and cheat. Dance on tables or sit in the corner. Life is devine chaos. Embrace it. Forgive yourself. Breathe. And enjoy the ride.
Solbeam
"The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?" ~Chuang Tzu
"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound." ~Zen Saying
"How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body?" ~Laurel Hoodwrit
"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying." ~Baba Ram Dass
"Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go." ~Author Unknown
"God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them."
Kahlil Gibran
"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
— Bill Watterson
"Unexpressed feelings never die. They are buried alive and come forth later in uglier ways."
- Sean Covey
"I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years, or just not exist, or just not be aware that you do exist, or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning."
- from book 'The Perks of Being A Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky
"To percieve is to suffer."
- Aristotle
"Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness
And cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me"
- from song 'Zero' by Smashing Pumpkins
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
-Charles Dubois
Trophies
*Gold*
Asshole http://allpoetry.com/poem/4186545
Smothered http://allpoetry.com/poem/4257889
Grace http://allpoetry.com/poem/4233265
Lollipop Romance http://allpoetry.com/poem/4295171
Whore http://allpoetry.com/poem/4359813
Contempt http://allpoetry.com/poem/4323657
Expression http://allpoetry.com/poem/4380971
Masquerade http://allpoetry.com/poem/4380957
*Silver*
Innocence [Haiku] http://allpoetry.com/poem/4177795
Vacant http://allpoetry.com/poem/4175705
Picturesque http://allpoetry.com/poem/4156901
Starlit Romance http://allpoetry.com/poem/4200457
Bliss http://allpoetry.com/poem/4289955
Cookie Cutter Crumbs http://allpoetry.com/poem/4110319
Circle of Love http://allpoetry.com/poem/4247935
*Bronze*
Fairies http://allpoetry.com/poem/4188183
Tea Bag http://allpoetry.com/poem/4234695#
Gypsy of the Night http://allpoetry.com/poem/4246725
Soul Lit Path http://allpoetry.com/poem/4232451
Mylee http://allpoetry.com/poem/4237927
Goodbye Came Too Soon http://allpoetry.com/poem/4323443
*Green: Honorable Mention*
Inner Sage http://allpoetry.com/poem/4146901
My Story http://allpoetry.com/poem/4150527
What I Wouldn't Give http://allpoetry.com/poem/4069519
A Delightful Affliction http://allpoetry.com/poem/4054363
Rolling on By... http://allpoetry.com/poem/4034165
Now What? http://allpoetry.com/poem/3981029
A Penguin Named Dewey (limerick)http://allpoetry.com/poem/4222803
Chatter http://allpoetry.com/poem/4214453
Metamorphosis http://allpoetry.com/poem/4184609
Mommy http://allpoetry.com/poem/4044003
Eternally http://allpoetry.com/poem/4246019
Mommy [Why??] http://allpoetry.com/poem/4237637
Guidance [Emoticon Haiku] http://allpoetry.com/poem/4242107
derelict http://allpoetry.com/poem/4336867
Cherry Flavored http://allpoetry.com/poem/4348145
Insert [cliche] here http://allpoetry.com/poem/4341273
Enrapture http://allpoetry.com/poem/4028251
by Lowell Poe
Out of the west,
of women song and sun,
and throngs of cyber air waves,
is the Eve of every Adam,
the maiden who saves herself,
the damsel who's only distress
is the endless search for words,
that will fill her heart,
and yours.
No man or woman would
find a better friend.
Her absents from my sight
would never diminish
her power and her beauty
that her poems bring.
Out from the dusty plains
to the urban cities,
she reverberates in my soul.
She guards and comforts my spirit.
Where ever I may roam
her poetry in scrolls
that lie by my nap sack
are read by my fire
like prayers to my heart.
Hearken back to the days of yore!
When her words
would have soothed
the roaming nomads.
See the present unfold,
as you whisper her heart,
in her literature.
Look towards the
uncertain future bravely.
Her words will comfort you.
You can use them,
share them.
They are for us all.
her gift to strangers,
her gift to me,
as I stand
undeserving,
but forever grateful.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb
Children have more need of models than of critics.
- Joseph Joubert
Enthusiasm is the engine of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not what happiness really is.
- Alanis Morissette
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
Keep away from angry, short-tempered men, lest you learn to be like them and endanger your soul.
- Proverbs 22:24-25
Let your heart be awakened to the transforming power of gratefulness.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Not all who wander are lost.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
- Dinah Craik
Reality is merely an illusion...albeit a persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
...Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from "Faust"
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed
- Storm Jameson
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' "
— John Greenleaf Whittier
"Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a
wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously. "
— Tom Robbins
"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."
— Jimi Hendrix
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity. "
— Gilda Radner
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."
— Ayn Rand
"...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
— Khaled Hosseini
"Everything you can imagine is real. "
— Pablo Picasso
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde
"I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou
"Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly.
Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably.
And never forget anything that made you smile."
"Seduce my mind, ensnare my heart, capture my soul, and my body is yours completely."
""Endlessly falling apart, like a puzzle on an uneven surface. Just can't stay together. And who could love me when I'm in so many pieces?" ~Enkeli from AP
"I awake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep, I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time."
of Bob Dylan, I'm Not There 2007
"Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind; don't assign me yours."
Clementine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
Augusten Burroughs
"I'd rather be hated for what I am than loved for what I'm not."
Kurt Cobain
"The only mistake in loving someone is not telling them the extent of that love in that moment that it is born... Love will not stick around even for a second of untruth."
Terrence Davin Jetter
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
Maya Angelou
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
George Carlin
"A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums."
Hunter S. Thompson
"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
Sylvia Plath
"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
C. S. Lewis
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
Voltaire
“Love truth, but pardon error”
Voltaire
"What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection."
Oprah Winfrey
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Thoreau
""There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life." - Mother Theresa
“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours”
Swedish Proverb
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -
--Theodor Geisel; Dr Suess
Fall in love or fall in hate. Get inspired or be depressed. Ace a test or flunk a class. Make babies or make art. Speak the truth or lie and cheat. Dance on tables or sit in the corner. Life is devine chaos. Embrace it. Forgive yourself. Breathe. And enjoy the ride.
Solbeam
"The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?" ~Chuang Tzu
"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound." ~Zen Saying
"How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body?" ~Laurel Hoodwrit
"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying." ~Baba Ram Dass
"Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go." ~Author Unknown
"God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them."
Kahlil Gibran
"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
— Bill Watterson
"Unexpressed feelings never die. They are buried alive and come forth later in uglier ways."
- Sean Covey
"I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years, or just not exist, or just not be aware that you do exist, or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning."
- from book 'The Perks of Being A Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky
"To percieve is to suffer."
- Aristotle
"Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness
And cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me"
- from song 'Zero' by Smashing Pumpkins
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
-Charles Dubois
Trophies
*Gold*
Asshole http://allpoetry.com/poem/4186545
Smothered http://allpoetry.com/poem/4257889
Grace http://allpoetry.com/poem/4233265
Lollipop Romance http://allpoetry.com/poem/4295171
Whore http://allpoetry.com/poem/4359813
Contempt http://allpoetry.com/poem/4323657
Expression http://allpoetry.com/poem/4380971
Masquerade http://allpoetry.com/poem/4380957
*Silver*
Innocence [Haiku] http://allpoetry.com/poem/4177795
Vacant http://allpoetry.com/poem/4175705
Picturesque http://allpoetry.com/poem/4156901
Starlit Romance http://allpoetry.com/poem/4200457
Bliss http://allpoetry.com/poem/4289955
Cookie Cutter Crumbs http://allpoetry.com/poem/4110319
Circle of Love http://allpoetry.com/poem/4247935
*Bronze*
Fairies http://allpoetry.com/poem/4188183
Tea Bag http://allpoetry.com/poem/4234695#
Gypsy of the Night http://allpoetry.com/poem/4246725
Soul Lit Path http://allpoetry.com/poem/4232451
Mylee http://allpoetry.com/poem/4237927
Goodbye Came Too Soon http://allpoetry.com/poem/4323443
*Green: Honorable Mention*
Inner Sage http://allpoetry.com/poem/4146901
My Story http://allpoetry.com/poem/4150527
What I Wouldn't Give http://allpoetry.com/poem/4069519
A Delightful Affliction http://allpoetry.com/poem/4054363
Rolling on By... http://allpoetry.com/poem/4034165
Now What? http://allpoetry.com/poem/3981029
A Penguin Named Dewey (limerick)http://allpoetry.com/poem/4222803
Chatter http://allpoetry.com/poem/4214453
Metamorphosis http://allpoetry.com/poem/4184609
Mommy http://allpoetry.com/poem/4044003
Eternally http://allpoetry.com/poem/4246019
Mommy [Why??] http://allpoetry.com/poem/4237637
Guidance [Emoticon Haiku] http://allpoetry.com/poem/4242107
derelict http://allpoetry.com/poem/4336867
Cherry Flavored http://allpoetry.com/poem/4348145
Insert [cliche] here http://allpoetry.com/poem/4341273
Enrapture http://allpoetry.com/poem/4028251
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movedon on May 7well auntie it has been some time eh?!
well, stopping by with some hugs and love for you!
*hug x 1000000!
loveeeeeeee,
mylee -
movedon on February 23no guestbook entries?! what?!?!?!?
at least none since me 2 months ago? well, here i am, im back to AP. I've been away but IM BACK. I LOVE the pic of you. You are so beautiful auntie! missed you and love you tons!!!!!!
love always
nicey mylee -
N.E.Haymanali on December 8, 2008Hey ! Lotus-Mama !
I'm from Turkey (not thanks giving day's turkey) I liked very much your page and mostly your quotations ( specially - to percieve is to suffer - Aristotle )
Merry Christmas ! Have a good day ! Bye ! -
movedon on December 3, 2008gah! You're picture is absolutely stunning! You're so beautiful auntie!!!! Just wanted to hopefully brightne your day with some smiles!
and a 
before i leave,
Mylee
