Hello @Givemeabreak2, yay for your first post.

You've got such a radiant vibe exuding kindness and positivity! Lovely to meet you and have you as a part of our community!❤

Ooh I love Rumi's quotes and poems, they hit the right notes always haha! Thanks for sharing!🌻

My all time favorite quote is "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." by Robert Frost!🌻

I always loved and love to read again, this poem by Carl Sandburg.

Stars, Songs, Faces

This is Tu Fu's (also called Du Fu) Poem - 'Jade - Blossom Palace' translated by David Hinton (I think his translations extraordinary)

Below long pine woods, a stream twists.

Gray rats scuttle across spent rooftiles.

Bequeathed now beneath cliffs to ruin – who

knows which prince’s palace this once was?

Azure ghostflames flood shadow-filled rooms.

Erosion guts manicured paths. Earth’s

ten thousand airs are the enduring music,

autumn colors the height of indifference.

All brown earth now – the exquisite women

gracing his golden carriage have all become

their rouge and mascara sham. Of those

stately affairs, one stone horse remains.

Sitting grief-stricken in the grasses,

I sing wildly, wiping aware tears for life

scarcely passes into old age, and no one

ever finds anything more of immortality.

Love the Poetry, thank you ❤️

My favorite poem to quote is:

Red rose is the symbol of passion.

White rose is a symbol of love and peace.

A red rose is like a falcon.

A white rose like a dove.

So I give you this pale white rose with a blush on the petal tips. For what is love without a kiss of passion on the lips. 💋

Bluebird by Charles Bukowski

There's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I'm too tough for him,

I say, stay in there, I'm not going

to let anybody see

you.

There's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I pour whiskey on him and inhale

cigarette smoke

and the *** and the bartenders

and the grocery clerks

never know that

he's

in there.

There's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I'm too tough for him,

I say,

stay down, do you want to mess

me up?

you want to screw up the

works?

you want to blow my book sales in

Europe?

There's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I'm too clever, I only let him out

at night sometimes

when everybody's asleep.

I say, I know that you're there,

so don't be

sad.

Then I put him back,

but he's singing a little

in there, I haven't quite let him

die

and we sleep together like

that

with our

secret pact

and it's nice enough to

make a man

weep, but I don't

weep, do

you?

My favourite quote is "You light the wick; the wax is caught and drawn up the wick; the candle bums a number of hours, goes out, and that is all. The incident is finished. In a little while the candle is forgotten, and then, of course, it has never existed." From tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

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There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it.

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