Controversial ideas just complicate the matter unnecessarily. -AnneWithAnE


Why do we never see it until all is lost?
The desire to value others without concern for profit or loss? -AOT


Could poems on the themes of 'Going to view the blossoms to find them already fallen' or 'Written when I was prevented from going to see the flowers' be deemed inferior to 'On seeing the blossoms'? -Kenkō


Writing this, I realize that all this has already beespokken of long ago... But that is no reason not to say it again. After all, things thought but left unsaid only fester inside you. -Kenkō


Some of us don't want to be tough alpha leaders.
Some of us just want to write
and wander the garden
and breathe in the sky
and nourish
and nurture
and quietly create new pathways
and live our lives as our art.
To know the earth as poetry. -Victoria Erickson