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POETRY, QUOTES, AND
REFLECTIONS
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After A While

         After a while, you learn the subtle difference
         Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
         And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
         And company doesn't mean security,
         And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
         And presents aren't promises,
         And you begin to accept your defeats
         With your head up and your eyes open,
         With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
         And learn to build all your roads on today
         Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans,
         And futures have a way of falling down in midflight.
         And after a while, you learn that even sunshine burns
         if you get too much.
         So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul,
         Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
         And you learn that you really can endure...
         That you really are strong
         And you really do have worth
         And you learn and learn....
         With every goodbye, you learn.

~Veronica Shoffstall

We cannot write in water...we cannot carve in water.
Water's nature is to flow and that is how we should treat life...emotion, negative or positive.
Do not deny it, but always let it flow through
and then away.

~Anonymous

...but the heroine, when at a juncture,
makes her own choice---
the non-heroine lets others make it for her.......

~from A Year By The Sea by Joan Anderson

Time may make us rugged,
ragged round the edges,
but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.

Rod McKuen, April, 1998

One of my favorite poets since high school has been Rod McKuen. His site has many beautiful unpublished poems. When you are finished here, please check out A Safe Place To Land.

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