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1 " Beyond the rambling waterfalls, / the thunders mumbling in their sleep, / and crickets with encrypting trills, / the dialogues run far and deep / throughout the forests most ignore: / the histories of all that crawls...(from Conversations with Gaia) "
― Robert J. Tiess , The Humbling and Other Poems
2 " Let aspirations reach as leaves / which feel for sun beyond the clouds, / whatever warmth and radiance / might make your mind more like the rose:(from Florescence) "
3 " No, life's not wholly vanished here. / You only have to look for it, / behind, before, between these leaves, / above the broken ends of branches / where one small bluebird takes its pause...(from Between These Leaves) "
4 " Old foliage ignores the anxious sun / since dismal winds convince each brittle branch / to hold no moment closely or too long / now shadows spread and all turns silhouette. / But then she smiles, reviving life with light, / and hope may spring eternal one more night.(from April, Autumnal) "
5 " A union of coordinates / from where we stand / and who we were / to how we reach / eternal love: / our special relativity...(from Love's Special Relativity) "
6 " Tomorrows hinge / on one decision. / In all directions: / consequence.(from Destinations) "
7 " A mouse would solve this handily, / except I like to probe unknowns / and be amazed by what I find / along the corners of your mind. / Wherever you will let me start, / l love to learn your ways by heart.(from Amazed) "
8 " One lie might eye the highest throne / inside the castle of your mind, / and any whim may play the lord / when left unchecked, out of control, / once knights of reason flee their posts, / let sentiments invade these walls, / then leave the keep without defense. / How easily a kingdom falls!(from Interior Kingdom) "
9 " Come dreamers, / be our architects!(from Architects of the Impossible) "
10 " Be more than symbol, strength, and dream. / Be light! Inspire! Revive! / Redeem!(from Phoenix: Salvation) "
11 " the universe / is not just you."(from Personal Copernican Revolution) "
12 " May peace be ever in your sight / and conquer hearts of those who'd fight / for false beliefs or grievous wrongs / or threaten hate where hope belongs.(from Prayer for the Voices of Resistance) "
13 " I'm just a student, one who sees / the paradox of Socrates, / to understand I do not know / and yet enlighten as I go. "
14 " With one glove off, you trace the heavens, / fingers full of reverence...(from Stargazers on a Winter's Night) "
15 " you wonder / when you start to rise, / if light exists / outside this night, / but this is how / it all begins: / from darkness / not of any sins...(from Lotus Dreamer) "
16 " The past no longer limits me. / I drift on wind and live as free / above the houses, mountains, clouds, / the cities gripped by anxious crowds, / alighting where I will by day / whenever I decide to stay.(from Now I've Become a Butterfly) "
17 " Let blessings only dwell here, yes, / not one phantasm of the past, / for now begins the exorcism / evicting darkness at long last.(from Renovation of a Soul) "
