One Thousand

One Thousand

Time to celebrate!

One thousand published poems,
set aside are even more,
and still my words continue gushing
from a bottomless spring
deep inside the profound silence
accompanying me along the dark pathway
where everything I've known
must be forgotten,
and everything I've gained
must be lost,
as a voice calls out
from within the wilderness:

I am your soul.
Hear me roar!

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Don't wash a wound with blood.
...what hurts you blesses you.
Rumi, The Tree of Awe
 
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
~ Lao Tzu
 
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
~ Buddha
 
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
~ Alexander Smith
 
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
It's so much easier to know who you are
when there aren't a thousand people
telling you who they think you are.
~ Miley Cyrus
 
Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy.
I've done it a thousand times.
~ W. C. Fields