“Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver and gold.”
– Bob Marley
“A golden statue of a wicked man, is worth less than a mud statue of a man with a heart of gold.” – Mehmet Murat ildan
“True gold fears no fire.”
– Chinese Proverb
I first posted this poem here at Flowers for Socrates in 2015.
Cataracts of blood have been spilled since then, and still, nothing has changed.
Move on, nothing to see here – just another mass murder in America.
To read “Gunfire” click:
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Even the Sun directs our gaze away from
itself and to the life illumined by it.
─ Eberhard Arnold
The Sun himself is weak when he first rises and
gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
─ Charles Dickens
The day of the Sun is like the day of a king.
It is a promenade in the morning,
a sitting on the throne at noon,
a pageant in the evening.
─ Wallace Stevens
Lars Gustafsson(1936 –2016) was born in Västerås, Sweden on May 17. A Swedish poet, novelist, and scholar, he published his first novel in 1959, and his first poetry collection the following year. Some of his poetry collections have been published in the U.S, including: The Stillness of the World Before Bach (New Directions, 1988), Elegies and Other Poems (New Directions, 2000), and A Time in Xanadu (Copper Canyon Press, 2008). Gustafsson was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin from 1983 until 2006, when he retired and returned to Sweden.
To read the Lars Gustafsson poem “Elegy for a Dead Labrador” click:
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
– Vivian Greene“I have always considered the rain to be healing – a blanket – the comfort of a friend.”
– Douglas Coupland“Give thanks for the rain in your life which waters the flowers of your soul.”
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To read Irene’s new poem “After the Rain” click
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“A swan looking at the world from a misty calm lake is like a creature looking at the world from space! All he sees is a large herd of people governed by the most stupid and most inadequate people.”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan, contemporary Turkish playwright, novelist and thinker
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Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers
on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,
so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in
your brainpan, feel free to add a comment.
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