“A Simple Thesis Poem”
Why did the chicken cross the road?
The age old question
To make a better life for zirself?
Did zir walk or perhaps run away from the flames that were on the other side?
We never talk about what zir found on the other side, thoroughly
Did this chicken find a message in a bottle telling them it will all be okay?
Or a worn down album from Sting and The Police?
Zir may stop to pick up the classic vinyl if zir found it laying on the busted sidewalk to listen to the poetry in their lyrics
The chicken makes it across the road
To pick up the record
To realize there is no record player to properly enjoy their poetry
Finding an old Gatorade bottle
The flavor Fierce Grape
Maybe purchased at Trader Joes
The Mecca of grocery stores
Thoughts of childhood soccer games
Slightly dramatic
And traumatic running through their brain waves
Zirs thirst no longer quenched
Remembering to be kind to the earth that continues to hold zirself up day and night
Throwing it away in the waste basket adjacent to where they found that fiercely delicious poetry created by the Police
That does not sting
Zir notices a couple holding hands
Within one block their hand lock changes several times
Are they trying to find comfort in how they show affection?
Can they not comfortably hold hands because their love has become less delicious?
Did their love get too close to the sun like Icarus’s wings?
Will their love melt back into each other or into other’s hearts?
We will never know the answers to all these questions
We will never know why the chicken truly crossed the road
What we do know is this
Zir chicken struts across the road to pen poetry for zirself
Zir chooses to share their poetry with everyone else
In time
On zir terms
Not to impress
Or be cohesive
Simply to get through another day
Deciphering messages found in other’s poetry and empty Gatorade bottles…(Panku)
© Elizabeth Sophia Strauss
I Have Called That the New Man – Zorba the Buddha
“First I taught you about trust, the heart, feeling, love; and now I am teaching you about doubt, skepticism, reason, intellect, because I would like you to be a whole man. You can be completely satisfied with trusting, with the heart, but you will not be a whole man. I would not call Mira a whole person, I would not call Ramakrishna a whole person. They are beautiful, but the intellect is missing; it is all heart. It is too much sugar, it creates diabetes. I am diabetic. Too much of the heart, too much sweetness, and you suffer from diabetes – and I don’t want any of you to suffer from diabetes. Yes, just living by the heart you will have spiritual diabetes. Intellect is salty, spicy; it is not all sugar.
“I would like you to enjoy the wholeness of your being, when your body, your heart, your intellect all fall in tune. I have called that the new man – Zorba the Buddha.”
-Osho
I feel like such a temporary person in everyone’s life
“Wild women are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves yet give a piece of who they are to everyone they meet. If you have met one, hold on to her, she’ll allow you into her chaos but she’ll also show you her magic.”
— Nikki Rowe, Fragile but Fierce: A Quote Collection (Balboa Press AU, May 28, 2020) (via Make Believe Boutique)
“I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen. When you go through the streets No one recognizes you. No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks At the carpet of red gold That you tread as you pass, The nonexistent carpet. And when you appear All the rivers sound In my body, bells Shake the sky, And a hymn fills the world. Only you and I, Only you and I, my love, Listen to it.”
— -Pablo Neruda, Love Poems Get This Book (via awesomebookquotes)
Untitled (the Birth) Artist: Kusum Ketkar. Painted in 1937. Watercolor on paper. Signed and dated ‘kusum ketkar / 1937’ lower right. 20 ⅝ x 13 ⅜ in. (52.4 x 34.1 cm.) (via Sotheby’s)
"You can romanticize me all you wish, but the devil wrapped in silk is still the devil."
A Word to my Lovers
Daily Guidance
1st May
As you make your way home tonight, may you pause for a moment to gaze up at the night sky and let your heart communicate with the moon in wordless dialogue. Perhaps you might compose a poem and set it down in your journal entry for today. I would like you to possess such a poetic spirit.
- Daisaku Ikeda, SGI President
–I believe there are no authors like Franz Kafka in gen z. If there were, then i would have got my letters by now.
Where's my hero to "The Notebook" ?!?!?! Sleeping?
#not me crying over zero letters in 2021
— The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Random Conversation Starters
“So it’s not like I actually want a snake, but more like I want a snake jus tbecause I don’t seem like the type of person that would have one.”
“Excuse you, I am great at being a third wheel.”
“What if he thinks of you as more than a friend?”
“We’re pretty sure she’s dead at this point but then she sits up and demands that we bring her a man.”
“Do you … do you ever think about what kind of weird roommate stories you would tell but you can’t think of any and you realize that it’s because you’re the weird roommate?”
“I don’t particularly care for cake.”
“So I was looking at conspiracy theories on the internet because, well, you know, and it turns out the middle ages might not even exist! I’m in the middle of reading a paper on it.”
“Who would I have a hickey from??”
“Y’all better hope I never pass out and need an IV. I will freak out if I wake up with something sticking in my arm.”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa – someone’s in here!”
“You have to ask him because if I ask him, then he’d be going as my friend but if you ask him then he’d be going as your friend.”
“I’m only a little awkward sometimes.”
“Okay, but how do I tell him I like him without telling him I like him??”
“I don’t know how to describe it, but I just feel like your soul is like UUUUGGGHHHHHHHHHH.”
“Hi, yeah, I don’t like you. I mean I do, but just as friend. Will you please just chill so we can hang out again? Thanks.”
“You can try it but realistically speaking probably not.”
“It is not a hickey! It’s one of those airbrush tattoo things. I realize now that the placement and color may have been a mistake.”
“Well, first I’d have to wax my arm.”
“Mom, don’t worry, I have never done the sex or had the drugs or made the fun.”
“He told me I looked like a unicorn today and it made my heart so happy.”
“Don’t worry. I only cried a little.”
“No, I don’t wanna be her stupid boyfriend! But I don’t want anyone else to either.”
“It was then that I realized my mistake.”
“I’m not naming my child triangle!”
“The other one’s even harrier!”
“Technically it wasn’t on fire.”
“Listen - no listen. I want you to understand this. I do not care.”
“Wait, were you just like, flirting with me?”
“What the heck is a nougat?”
“Only thirty percent of all my jokes are dad jokes. The rest are memes and dark humor.”
“Which Dairy Queen story do you wanna hear first?”
“I’d better be getting a godchild out of this.”
“That’s not the only door you’ve broken.”
“I’ve averaged 1 & 1/2 meals for the past 3 days.”
“That’s the worst idea I’ve ever head. Let’s do it.”
“You guys are so cute. It’s disgusting.”
In search of my Destiny!! Loves to Read !!🧚♀️🧜♀️🧙♀️ n Believes in Magic🦋👑💫
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