Picnic, Lightning
It is possible to be struck by a meteor
or a single-engine plane
while reading in a chair at home.
Safes drop from rooftops
and flatten the odd pedestrian
mostly within the panels of the comics,
but still, we know it is possible,
as well as the flash of summer lightning,
the thermos toppling over,
spilling out on the grass.
And we know the message
can be delivered from within.
The heart, no valentine,
decides to quit after lunch,
the power shut off like a switch,
or a tiny dark ship is unmoored
into the flow of the body’s rivers,
the brain a monastery,
defenseless on the shore.
This is what I think about
when I shovel compost
into a wheelbarrow,
and when I fill the long flower boxes,
then press into rows
the limp roots of red impatiens—
the instant hand of Death
always ready to burst forth
from the sleeve of his voluminous cloak.
Then the soil is full of marvels,
bits of leaf like flakes off a fresco,
red-brown pine needles, a beetle quick
to burrow back under the loam.
Then the wheelbarrow is a wilder blue,
the clouds a brighter white,
and all I hear is the rasp of the steel edge
against a round stone,
the small plants singing
with lifted faces, and the click
of the sundial
as one hour sweeps into the next.
Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!
C. JoyBell C.Tag: life inspirational happiness inspirational-quotes joy living life-and-living cake inspirational-life cakes looking-no-further the-way-of-the-cake the-way-to-happiness understanding-happiness understanding-joy
The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
Chuck PalahniukTag: life living hell motivation life-lessons insight thought-provoking
I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.
Shannon HaleYou live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
Natalie GoldbergTag: life living dying enjoyment
Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive.
Doug CouplandTag: life happiness love living alive
There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you.
Tag: life world science-fiction living novels demands
The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.
Tess GerritsenTag: life death living hurt dead tess-gerritsen the-sinner
You've got this life and while you've got it, you'd better kiss like you only have one moment, try to hold someone's hand like you will never get another chance to, look into people's eyes like they're the last you'll ever see, watch someone sleeping like there's no time left, jump if you feel like jumping, run if you feel like running, play music in your head when there is none, and eat cake like it's the only one left in the world!
C. JoyBell C.Tag: inspirational passion music kissing inspirational-quotes living life-and-living cake inspirational-life inspiring
Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught.
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