imagine a rose

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush. 

Li-Young Lee

Sunlight is the smiling face of life
Just at the moment when life begins a new day

Is it unusual for a man to be in love
With the universe just as it is

Here is the water, the air, and the earth
Here is the corner where I can pray

A new day, the sunlight joyously returns
A wren in the jasmine watches

James Lee Jobe

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

Jetsun Milarepa

My love is deeply asleep
And watching her I imagine a rose
Growing in mid-air above her
Living its own life and then dying
Dropping its petals one by one
In a circle around my love

James Lee Jobe

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

Timothy Leary

This life
This world
With its sorrows and its rainbows
What difference does it make
Which path we take
Or what name we bear
A waxing crescent moon tonight
And then a swift sunrise
Share your joys as they come
My friends

James Lee Jobe

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