I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.
Roman PayneTag: adventure travel exploration luck roman wandering payne roman-payne good-luck
The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten.
Tag: humor writers humour marriage funny admiration authors desire roman weddings payne brides
Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
Roman PayneTag: women sleep dreams heroism classics alexander-the-great greek homer roman the-iliad the-odyssey waning-moon
I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.
Roman PayneTag: reading books soul literature fortune europe roman streets payne roman-payne fortunes gypsies gypsy
May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.
Roman PayneTag: humor men women humour funny living dying widows roman payne
Did I live the spring I’d sought?
It’s true in joy, I walked along,
took part in dance,
and sang the song.
and never tried to bind an hour
to my borrowed garden bower;
nor did I once entreat
a day to slumber at my feet.
Yet days aren’t lulled by lyric song,
like morning birds they pass along,
o’er crests of trees, to none belong;
o’er crests of trees of drying dew,
their larking flight, my hands, eschew
Thus I’ll say it once and true…
From all that I saw,
and everywhere I wandered,
I learned that time cannot be spent,
It only can be squandered.
Tag: poetry dance time living song spring verse roman soliloquy rhymes payne rhyming-verse poesie rooftop springtime
I like the posture, but not the yoga.
I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.
Tag: love poetry silence sleep dreams morning yoga moments flower garden roman quietness opium posture payne
Rich will be my life if I
can keep my memories full
and brimming, and record
them on clear-eyed
mornings while I set
joyously to work setting
pen to holy craft.
Tag: life success writing writers work memories craft roman novelist payne novel-writing rooftop-soliloquy succeeding
Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?
Roman PayneTag: books writing writers interview heroism writer escape publishing flame roman novelist heroic roman-payne novel-writing author-interview tediousness voluptuousness
hell is full of good wishes and desires.
Bernard of ClairvauxTag: roman
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