Silversoliloquysong• Show poetry

I have two incredibly talented, loving and supportive relatives here on AP:

the beautifully erotic & spiritual tanzanite, my South African sister,

the wonderfully gifted wordsmith Polaja, my Australian niece

please check out their poetry, it is awesome!
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"I am my own declaration…
My own eternal joy.
I am the things
I’ve wanted to be
Ever since there ever was me."

~William Harger

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"Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it."

~Sophocles

"Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders."

~William Faulkner

"Line me up in single file with all your grievances."

"In my platforms
I hit the floor
fell face down
didn't help my brain out"

~Tori Amos

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Quotes from "The Winter of Our Discontent," by John Steinbeck that resonated with me:

"Does anyone ever know even the outer fringe of another?"

“… intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There’s luck or fate or something else that takes over accidents.”

“The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it?”

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S'pose I should list my trophies, I'm starting to forget them myself:

Gold:

Love, Unrequited (allpoetry.com/ poem/1464366)

Silver:

I Love....... (long & graphic) (allpoetry.com/ poem/1518050)
Raven (allpoetry.com/ Poem/1514369)
i wish i could... (allpoetry.com/ poem/1681381)
gray (allpoetry.com/ Poem/2201468)
I Am... http://allpoetry.com/poem/2427755
When http://allpoetry.com/poem/2717774

Bronze:

Field of Irises (allpoetry.com/ Poem/1535102)
Foreplay Game (Not a Poem) (allpoetry.com/ poem/1768718)

Honorable Mention:

Me http://allpoetry.com/poem/2380531

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