Quotes

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” ~Joyce Carol Oates

“Writing is when we actively create those voices, skins, and souls.”~Lyn Crain

Like It Is ©Lyn Crain

Tell Me A Story
About The
Monkey in Business

ah, The Thrill of Mass Intimacy
Collaborators
Resisters
Now Lovers
Conspiracy
Corruption
What No Murder
Of, Course I Have Questions
Leave Me with No Illusions
with Sideshow Glances
Simply All the Mortifications.

# NYTimes Titles and Subtitles

ah, is the only word added by me. Writer’s discretion.
It’s a whole new way of writing poetry that opens your mind in so many different ways.©

Having a Socratic Moment

“If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.”
― Socrates

Inner Child ©Lyn Crain

 

Snowflakes dominate this January day
A historic event challenges the city.
Mother Nature declares her way.

City officials install a ban.
Stay home, walk if you must but,
no cars except the emergency man.

Dapper snowmen appear in unusual places.
Children on sleds race down streets
where cars normally rule the spaces.

Elevated subways halt on snow covered track
The Wind blows at times so fierce,
the high water claims the land back.

The busy city now invites play
quite different than the norm
the white stuff is here to stay.

People explore the city with their feet
some even pause to converse with strangers
unlike the normal day with no time to greet.

Mother Nature and Father Time smile
the city that never rests
rediscovers the fun, it has been awhile.

Sometimes all it takes is a snowflake
to impose a change to our routines,
for our inner child to awake.

Mental Cruelty

“The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as obvious. In fact, even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man’s emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm.” ~Lundy Bancroft

 

Verbal abuse hurts more people than you realize and the impact lasts a lifetime.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
Albert Einstein

Please think before you speak.

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Wilted ©Lyn Crain

You

……plucked me

out of the field.

You encouraged me to

….blossom

feigned interest.

Oh lucky me,

living

in a flowery shrine

If only you loved me.

Understood me.

If only I had thorns…

to prick you, hurt you

as you have me.

Instead, I wilt

… like the other cut flowers

in a vase.