"*Here, write it, or it will be erased by the wind.*"
Isabel Allende
"*Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." *
Khalil Gibran
Four poets were sitting around a bowl of punch that stood on a table.
Said the first poet, "Methinks I see with my third eye the fragrance of this wine hovering in space like a cloud of birds in an enchanted forest."
The second poet raised his head and said, "With my inner ear I can hear those mist-birds singing. And the melody holds my heart as the white rose imprisons the bee within her petals."
The third poet closed his eyes and stretched his arm upwards, and said, "I touch them with my hand. I feel their wings, like the breath of a sleeping fairy, brushing against my fingers."
Then the fourth poet rose and lifted up the bowl, and he said, "Alas, friends! I am too dull of sight and of hearing and of touch. I cannot see the fragrance of this wine, nor hear its song, nor feel the beating of its wings. I perceive but the wine itself. Now therefore must I drink it, that it may sharpen my senses and raise me to your blissful heights."
And putting the bowl to his lips, he drank the punch to the very last drop.
The three poets, with their mouths open, looked at him aghast, and there was a thirsty yet unlyrical hatred in their eyes.
Khalil Gibran
- Last seen on Nov 16 3:35 AM 2006. Member since March 12, 2002.
- I'm a onyx dragon poet for 727 comments.
- My mood is , and quote is "I am.".
- When I'm not writing, I'm a Photographer/Studio Manager.
- I have 727 comments, 4 contests, 107 poems
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stephanie sunshine on August 20, 2006i miss seeing you around. hope you're well.
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Fire-Pistil on January 10, 2006hey I love your poet story thingie, anyone knows that REAL writers like to drink to excess!
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princessummer on April 28, 2004I was surfing the allpoetry site when I came upon your web page. I really like your quotes. I look forward to reading you poetry!
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FakePlastic on April 20, 2004yo yo, remember me?!?!! ummm uhhhh I wanted to say hi and that i'm turning 18 this saturday 4/24/04 oh yea. I was reading my comments people left me and all, and i've known you for like 2 years or something... also i graduated high school so ha and now i work for a computer company in the IT department fixing computers and building them and all this other crap. ummm uhh That's all i wanted to sayy byeeeee
