Music is my life But some people call it noise I love listening. Patricia (U.S.A.)

http://www.creative-writing-now.com/haiku-poems.html

foto- busking on the streets of bellingen nsw australia

“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.” 

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

 

 

 

Take the big roller’s shoulder, speed and serve; come to the long beach home like a gull diving.

THE SURFER by Judith Wright

“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood,
and the sound of outer ocean on a beach”

~ Henry Beston

http://www.tranquilwaters.uk.com/water.html

I played patiently simple melodies and basic chords waiting for home where I could sink into freedom: playing by ear.

Piano Lessons

CAMERON HINDRUM, TAS

http://www.australianpoetry.org/2012/11/26/piano-lessons/

One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.

http://www.piano-play-it.com/quotations-about-music.html

Two should stay together when crossing a ford.

Is treasa dithis a’ dol thar àn àtha na fad’ o chèile.

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.” 

― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum LP

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

Karen Duffy

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beach.html

The Ball Of Many Beaches

by Tom Schaap, Taroona High School – Australia

Blood red,
Was the beach ball that hit me in the head.
Its summer,
Hence the beach ball.
It makes a loud “poing”
As it collides with my relaxing noggin.
I swear loudly,
“What does that mean?”
I look up,
An intrigued child is looking at me.
“Never mind” I say,
As I get up to find the culprit who threw the beach ball,
But in vain.
I fall over a small unsuspecting rock.
“Ugh”
Now that I am fully awake,
I realise something.
I’m sunburnt.
Small flakes of skin reside on my beach towel,
I decide to go home soon,
But one last dip in the water first.
I step in.
It’s warmish,
But cooling.
“EEEEEEEEK!!!” 
Screams a girl’s voice.
I suddenly find the reason for such a racket with a shock
There is a large fin,
Poking out of the waters smooth surface.
“Well this is just ridiculous”
I think to myself.
So I go home.

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”

― Charles Bukowski

 

foto garden centre coffs harbour nsw 2013

Mithridatum of Despair

We know no mithridatum of despair
as drunks, the angry penguins of the night,
straddling the cobbles of the square,
tying a shoelace by fogged lamplight.
We know no astringent pain,
no flecking of thought’s dull eternal sea
in garret image, of Spain
and love…now love’s parody.

See – chaos spark, struck from flint
and the plunging distemper, flare in the dawn’s dull seep
of milkcart horse, morning horse
chaos horse, walking at three to the doors of sleep
with the creamy poison.
convulsions endure
from nine to five,
all life immure.
and still alive.

we know no mithridatum, nor the remembered dregs of fear,
the glass stands dry and silted; no end is near.

http://www.ernmalley.com/harris_poetry.html

No one comes to the earth like grass, we come like trees, we all have roots”

~ Yiddish Proverb ~

“Scribbly Gum”, by Judith Wright:

The gum-tree stands by the spring.
I peeled its splitting bark
and found the written track
of a life I could not read.

Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.

~ Rosalind Russell

Australian Beauty

Life is full of miracles
(you’ll often hear them say);
But that’s for other people:
your life’s drab and grey.

Familiarity breeds contempt,
Nothing lifts your heart.
No beauty in your environment;
like you it falls apart.

Yet here and there around you,
where the world is worn and frayed,
a secret life of different hue
is vibrantly displayed.

Like a careworn spouse, it is invisible:
disguised in plain view.
By some illusion of camouflage,
accessible to very few.

Great beauty is offered to willing eyes;
Like peaches to willing hand.
A secret reward without a price,
Discerned by the mind of man.
Seek out the boldly buried treasure;
the chameleon at your feet.
Seek afresh forgotten pleasure,
or else your life forfeit.

MARK GREENLAND

Australian Beauty

Yon chestnuts half the latticed boat-house hide

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Beneath them I swam to the boathouse
With only my life in my arms
To wait for the lake to shine back
At the risen moon with such power
That my steps on the light of the ripples
Might be sustained.

(James Dickey

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.”

–   John Muir

 

“Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but closer it begins to separate, to break into light and shadow, the density blinds one. Within there is no form, only prodigious detail that reaches everywhere: exotic sounds, spills of sunlight, foliage, fallen trees, small beasts that flee at the sound of a twig-snap, insects, silence, flowers.
And all of this, dependent, closely woven, all of it is deceiving. There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see.”

― James Salter, Light Years

At the end of life, our questions are very simple. Did I live fully? Did I love well?

Jack Kornfield 1945

“Student: I don’t feel like living anymore. Teacher: If you don’t feel like doing something then don’t do. This means that in finding many ways how not to live your life, you have the possibility to discover how to live your life.”

― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

~Jean de La Fontaine

http://www.quotegarden.com/heartache.html

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung

 

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”

― D.H. Lawrence

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum LP

With little shudders of disgust they all followed Zaphod down the incline into the crater, trying very hard not to look at its unfortunate creator. Life, said Marvin dolefully, loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

DOUGLAS ADAMS.

“The moon is a loyal companion.
It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.
Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”

― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

Seashells remind us that every passing life leaves something beautiful behind.

 

Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.

(Sue Monk Kidd, “The Secret Life of Bees”)

In every drop of water, there is a story of life.”

~ Leena Arif

http://www.tranquilwaters.uk.com/water.html

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

An arch never sleeps.

Indian Proverbs: An arch never sleeps…

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.Erich Maria Remarque, “Arch of Triumph”

Read more: http://quote-citation.com/en/author/remarque#ixzz2cgtCODXw

Life is like a journey through the woods. Sometimes you’ve gotta chop down trees with an axe. Sometimes you’ve gotta bring a chainsaw. It is what it is.”

― Cleo and Francis

It is from a small seed that the giant Iroko tree has its beginning.

http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/proverbs.html

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.”

― Lisa Kleypas, Christmas Eve at Friday Harbour

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t.

Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966, Lively Quotes and Sayings ‘Attitude’

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

― Virginia Woolf

“It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace.”
Shenandoah proverb

The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.

~ African

http://afritorial.com/the-best-72-african-wise-proverbs/

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum LP

 

 

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

— Samuel Butler, English writer (1735-1902)

http://josephsoninstitute.org/quotes/quotations.php?q=Choice,%20freedom

What’s the difference between a violin and a viola?

There is no difference. The violin just looks smaller because the

violinist’s head is so much bigger.

http://www.getamused.com/jokes/violinjokeswhatsthedifferencebe.html

There is nothing to fear but fear itself

http://mattcurcio.wordpress.com/

 

In fact, only when we remember to be present to our lives do we realize we have been in imagination: either about events that occurred in the past or those that have yet to arrive.

Elizabeth I: Man’s head and feet are rarely in the same place at the same time.

The foremost denying force that prevents man from seeking and embracing a mystical teaching or walking a mystical path is the imaginary fear of this wisdom and the imaginary fear of unknown changes to his psyche and soul.

http://mysticisma.com/2013/03/fear-no-evil/

Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.”

― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

The bigger the head the bigger the headaches

Cameroon.

http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/african-proverbs-choose-your?xg_source=activity

Nothing in life is fair except a witnessed duel.”

― Lynda Williams

 

When two evil guys fight in a duel,
the worst of both will be the winner.”

― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

A man should avoid these six evils: lust, anger, avarice pleasure, pride, and rashness, for free of these he may be happy. (Sanskrit).

I Came to buy a smile—today—But just a single smile—The smallest one upon your faceWill suit me just as well—The one that no one else would missIt shone so very small—I’m pleading at the “counter”—…

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Bunny’s Excuse. There was once a wicked old sinner Who fancied a rabbit for dinner, But the bunny he met Said: “Don’t kill me yet, For I really am still a beginner.”

My living problems also cease to be struggles.

Heaven designs to suit our trials to our strength.

Though the sun shines, leave not your cloak at home.

” The queen’s mocking laughter cut in. “This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?”

“Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt—a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom.”
― Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Mara, Daughter of the Nile

RISE TOGETHER

ADAM T NA SPEAKER

IF DRINKING DON’T KILL ME

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM

SMALL TRIBUTE FOR IZZY FOREAL BY PETER CARRUTHERS

RISE TOGETHER

ADAM T NA SPEAKER

IF DRINKING DON’T KILL ME

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM

SMALL TRIBUTE FOR IZZY FOREAL BY PETER CARRUTHERS