Amy's Place .. Poetry and Potpourri .. October 4-5, 2004

10-04-04 | JustAmy, St.Louie1, MamaBear, Billie

[tuliptree76]

Happy Long Walk Day!

[MeekOneGOP]

Happy Long Walk Day!

Thanks. Cute GIF!

Does jogging count ?? I put in my 2 miles early this morning .....

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

* smiles *

I hope these intelligent people are not our future leaders.

[tame]

i LOVE that riddle :o) GREAT!

[JustAmy]

[OESY]

Well...not *all* lawyers are bad yanno. ;)

I'll conceit your point.

[tuliptree76]

I've been telling everyone in the office that they have to be nice to me today. LOL!

[tuliptree76]

Are they truly intelligent?

[tuliptree76]

I'm glad you liked it!

[OESY]

The Long Walk



Ahhhh...those stars
know me well
and the moon grows rather fond of my company

I've blazed many a trail
in my mind's eye … many a dream

Gazed at barren walls,
this lady in waiting,
on those winds of change;
to turn the ship to shore

I’ve walked the path
that I have tilled
and toiled and spoiled
and bled the wine from my lost trials
and laid waste to hopeful
new day dawns
that failed my view

I now feel as an extension of these,
the hopefuls,
these past figments,
as some have said
and so draw from the deepest well of time,
from lost gardens of seeds I’ve sown
and know the wealth of tears
that wrought forth almost madness,
in my solitude,
my starvation, need to feel love … acceptance;
fought the bitterness of sour tongues,
that steal the kiss of freedom’s hand

The bars that held me were self-made;
the troubled mind, my broken wing,
the pedestal I stood upon,
was that of isolation

When I felt the breath of freedom
brush my broken wing
I eased into flight from the pedestal

Still the night
craves my company
and knows me well,
as do the stars

Change in general radiance
is from,
the man in the moon,
who tends to shed
more hopeful light.

-- Jon Anon, Esq. (artvilla.com)

[OESY]

Teachers dwell in some far-distant heaven,
Even the most plain and down-to-earth.
All your expertise and dedication
Captures our naive imagination,
Heightening the aura of your worth.
Eventually, that youthful admiration
Returns as we embrace what you have given,
Serving as the seed of our rebirth.

-- William Byrd (Copyright by Nicholas Gordon)

[Darksheare]

LOL!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Thank you both, so much. I'll be around more in a few days. So many things to do.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

HAPPY LONG WALK DAY!

; )

[Darksheare]

Thanks!
Pretty pics too..

[OESY]

Mario Puzo:
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. -- Don Corleone, in The Godfather



Jean Kerr:
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.



Samuel Butler:
A lawyer's dream of Heaven: Every man reclaimed his own property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.



Thomas Jefferson:
[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.



William Shakespeare:
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

[tuliptree76]

LOL! :)

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

"intelligent" in quotes would be the proper way to call them. They'll tell us whatever they think we want to hear.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Long walks should have a nice view...

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Walks in color are always more pleasant...