{"quotes":[{"text":"Ultimately not one amongst usWill ever be denied that,The glimmer of a chance to shine.","author":"Scott Hastie","tags":["amongst","chance","denied","deny","glimmer","life","poetry","poetry-of-life","shine","spiritual","spirituality","ultimately","us","wisdom","wisdom","wisdom","wise-words"],"id":31153,"author_id":"Scott+Hastie"},{"text":"This is where I belong, burning in these flames. For everything I have done wrong, I know I am to blame.","author":"Atarah L. Poling","tags":["poetry","poetry-life","poetry-of-life","poetry"],"id":37448,"author_id":"Atarah+L.+Poling"},{"text":"Carpe DiemBy Edna StewartShakespeare, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman did it, why can't I?The words of Horace, his laconic phrase. Does it amuse me or frighten me?Does it rub salt in an old wound? Horace, Shakespeare, Robert Frost and Walt Whitman my loves,we've all had a taste of the devils carpe of forbidden food. My belly is full of mourning over life mishaps of should have's, missed pleasure, and why was I ever born?The leaf falls from the trees from which it was born in and cascade down like a feather that tumbles and toil in the wind.One gush! It blows away. It’s trampled, raked, burned and finally turns to ashes which fades away like the leaves of grass.Did Horace get it right? Trust in nothing?The shortness of Life is seventy years, Robert Frost and Whitman bared more, but Shakespeare did not.Butterflies of Curiosities allures me more.Man is mortal, the fruit is ripe. Seize more my darling! Enjoy the day.","author":"Edna Stewart","tags":["life-and-living","philosopy","poetry-of-life","reality","reality-check"],"id":73818,"author_id":"Edna+Stewart"},{"text":"Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.","author":"John Galsworthy","tags":["american-pen-center","dreams","human-nature","inspirational","john-galsworthy","nobel-laureate","pen-clubs","poetry-of-life"],"id":81351,"author_id":"John+Galsworthy"},{"text":"Poetry is not for poets, poetry lovers or perceived poetic persons only. Poetry is in yourself, others and everything of nature and man-made.Poetry may not be a solution, yet it can reveal or ease challenges faced.Poetry is capable of affecting any heart.","author":"Gloria D. Gonsalves","tags":["poetic","poetry","poetry-of-life","poetry"],"id":117215,"author_id":"Gloria+D.+Gonsalves"},{"text":"Words I write... Go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips.","author":"Jennifer Webb","tags":["fine-wine","poetry-of-life","words-to-ponder","writers"],"id":117648,"author_id":"Jennifer+Webb"},{"text":"Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.","author":"Terry A. O'Neal","tags":["aeipathy","dreams","fairy-tales","poetry-of-life","taoneal","undying-passion"],"id":123462,"author_id":"Terry+A.+O%27Neal"},{"text":"His voice is muddy, that's what it is. Dark and brown and muddy. A note to it like coffee left too long on the burner. And unsweetened, bitter chocolate. But there's dirt in it too, deep, dark dirt, like the garden in October.","author":"Jael McHenry","tags":["poetry-of-life","simile","voice"],"id":127553,"author_id":"Jael+McHenry"},{"text":"A poet warrior realizes both the brutality and the beauty in life, and apprehends that the suffering we tragically endure is partly what makes us human. What also makes us human is the ability to love, the ability to stand in nature’s presence, and to nurture this earthly paradise to tend to our family’s needs.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["beauty-in-nature","beauty-of-life","endure","endure-hardships","endure-pain","love","nature","nature","poetry","poetry-of-life","suffering","suffering-of-humanity","suffering","tragedy","tragedy-of-life","tragedy"],"id":144685,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Even in death, his last breath was poetryexisting in the wind and on the breeze of'it used to be likes' forever remembering,yet never relivinghis lifewill never be what it used to be like.","author":"N'Zuri Za Austin","tags":["existing","life","life","past","past-and-future","poetry","poetry-of-life","reliving-the-past","remembering"],"id":146107,"author_id":"N%27Zuri+Za+Austin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}