Utterly Indefinable:
that's what you are.
Definitions don't
match up to how
I define You.
So Speechless:
that's who I am.
Words disappear
but only when
You're with Me.
Completely Sensible:
that's how we are.
Reasons became
understood when
We became Us....
A bump in the road was how you described it.
A dark, long road was how I pictured it.
You spoke of our future,
how it'll someday be,
but you were running faster,
further ahead of me.
I was stuck on the present,
and losing you was my fear,
but that slowly started to change,
the last...
Some people have
modern homes and
downtown apartments,
with nothing other than
materialistic things;
The only green they
see is in their wallets,
And their connection
to nature is a fake one,
Only getting a glimpse
on scheduled vacation days.
Some people have
plants in their homes,
...
The typewriter never stops running.
Most days, it's too fast for my mouth
or fingers to keep up with,
and so I strive to transform
abstract concepts into physical contexts.
The typewriter never sleeps.
Most nights, it's too awake for my eyes
to close or my body to lie still,
and I, even a...
The bike was as red as a rose. It glowed just like the smile his face had on that fateful day. Speeding down that small town street Jimmy loved so much simply because of the hill it was placed on. With the houses of friends on either side of the road and the park at the end, Jimmy would pedal to the...
In a book way ahead of its time, Aldo Leopold wrote a group of essays framed around ecological understanding and relationship. A Sand County Almanac, written in 1949, first gets the reader to love nature and see beauty in even the smallest creatures and plants. Gradually, Leopold brings more of the ...
Sometimes I wish I weren’t part of the human species, for I am ashamed of what it’s done to the earth, to home. We forget that it is not just for our use, we forget that other innocent animals call this their home as well, and because of this, we forget to share. One of the first things a child ...
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