Lyrics of Life

I am not done yet as possible as yeast as imminent as bread a collection of safe habits a collection of cares less certain than i seem more ...

You tell me to live each day as if it were my last. This is in the kitchen where before coffee I complain of the day ahead—that obstacle rac...

Yes, I remember it, the day I’ll die, I broadcast the crimson, so long of that sky, its spread air, its rushing dyes, and a piece of earth b...

Think of what you'll miss; the voices of children; apples, dark wine on a table; the smell of the spring before you're ready. Stay. ...

Bellchimes jangle, freakish wind Whistles icy out of desert lands over the mountains. Janus, Lord of winter and beginnings, riven and shaken...

We have not long to love. Light does not stay. The tender things are those we fold away. Coarse fabrics are the ones for common wear. In sil...

Not the attendance of stones,  nor the applauding wind,  shall let you know  you have arrived,  not the sea that celebrates  only departures...

Even here, you are growing. When August is approaching and you feel a little restless thinking about how this month might end and how this y...

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something...

लाखों मारे गए, जबकि हर कोई निर्दोष था। मैं अपने कमरे तक महदूद था।  राष्ट्राध्यक्ष ने युद्ध का ऐसा बखान किया जैसे हो कोई जादुई प्रेम-रस। मेरी...

Rent a house near the beach, or a cabin but: Do not take your walking shoes. Don’t take any clothes you’d wear anyplace anyone would see you...

Tell them that I stood in line and I waited and I waited like everybody else But I never got called And I keep that scrap of paper in my poc...

The moon did not become the sun. It just fell on the desert in great sheets, reams of silver handmade by you. The night is your cottage indu...

लाल ज़री अरबी लोगों में कहावत थी कि जब कोई अजनबी दस्तक दे तुम्हारे दरवाज़े पर, तो उसे तीन दिनों तक खिलाओ-पिलाओ… यह पूछने से पहले कि वह कौन है,...

Say when rain cannot make you more wet or a certain thought can’t deepen and yet you think it again: you have lost count. A larger amount is...

Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson River road. It is usually best to roll them into the canyon: that r...

Then the flowers became very wild because it was early September and they had nothing to lose they tossed their colors every which way over ...

To enjoy fireworks, you would have to have lived a different kind of life. --- Naomi Shihab Nye

Isn't the moon dark too, most of the time? And doesn't the white page seem unfinished without the dark stain of alphabets? When God ...

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden s...