A  L  O  H  A !

 

" I try to raise

 my soul so high

 that the offense

 cannot reach it. "

Rene Descartes

" The conscious mind 

may be compared

 to a fountain

 playing in the sun - "

Sigmund Freud

" Rest and you rust. "

 Helen Hayes, 

American actress

" Well we all shine on
Like the moon 

and the stars 

and the sun
Well we all shine on
Every one, come on "

John Lennon

 " Light gives of itself freely,

 filling all available space.
 It does not seek anything

 in return;
 it asks not whether 

you are friend or foe.
 It gives of itself
and is not thereby 

diminished.  "

Michael Strassfeld

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Autobiography

by  Cloudia W. Charters

Bulldog to butterfly, Raised by rage

found my refuge on the page

H.G. Wells, Kipling and Poe

Sandburg showed me where to go.

Cultural deluge spins all boats

upsets familiar landscape, but I kept afloat

true believer to the dregs

everyone else somehow got rich

but I was just stretching my legs.

Start over?  Why not!

a rolling stone will not rot

Rooted to locale?  

well me, I’m not.

But torrents taunt boulders

we’re all growing older

Tis been a thrilling ride

if much of it pure slide

to rest on a shore

never seen before

rooted at last

have twenty years 

really passed!?

Half submerged sentinel by the shore

rocked but by tides, who could want more?

YOUR Visit

is appreciated!

                              Warmly, cloudia