John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness..."
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"...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...when you enter a room, my wound opens, but there is light, always light, when you come in..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"... I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...you can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"... only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much― Mark Twain ...that's why ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...all this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
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