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Aesthetics At Evening the Boats Crowd Towards Shore Bridges Are a Sign of Separation By the Tulips Fashion Finds No Favor in Your Heart Fear Not the Fairest Fortunes of Your Heart Fifty-Four3 Forever Is a Metaphor for Now Forty-Five Grace Is Rarely Graceful, Though One Wake Holidays Are like Well-Tended Gardens How Can I Touch You when You're Far Away I Look at You and Think: I Cannot Live I Wanted Nothing Less Than Hope Intent on Giving Birth Jacob2 Joy Leaves a Bit of Wonder in Its Wake Mind Is Not the Medium for Joy No One Is the Author of This Poem Out of Who We Are Comes Where We Live Poetry and Explanation Proverbs of Beauty and Goodness (also under Ethics) The Perfect Poem Should Flow like Wind Thirty-Five4 Thirty-Four2 Thirty-One2  Thirty-Seven6  To Be Consumed by Something More than Beauty To Daydream Is to Stir the Pot of Hope Death Death Can Also Be a Dance Death Is like a Car Every Moment Sings with Fascination In Eighth Grade My Best Friend Passed Away One Night I Saw Aaron Recently I Dreamed I Talked to You Rest in Peace, My Loved One, Rest in Peace Tears Flow Down to Endless Streams of Sadness The Gift of Life Is Never More or Less The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling! Understand Death Has No Use for Time Epistemology Adam Anthony Behind the Act Is Always the Perception Beverly By the Eighth Day There Was No Longer Need Changes Find Their Agent in Obsession Dreams Are Not for Ravishers Each Moment Is a Word of Glass Each Numeral Contains a Mystic Meaning Even a Mole-Rat Relishes the Sweetness Even Angels Tire of Ecstasy Even Trees Awake to a Breakfast of Light Even When the Sky is Stone Everyday Suns Are Rarely Wonders Fifty-Four Given the Glory of Mountains and Seas God Knows the Price of Tuning Forks Have Witches Gone the Way of Wonders Home Is a Myth That Must Be Recreated Home Must Be a Daily Re-Creation Hope Is Not the Creature of Sensation Hours Mean No More or Less than Years How Beautifully the Rushing Glass How Odd to See the Lamps Still Burning Hubble-Scopes Aloft Will See Anew I Don't Know Why My Mind Goes Numb with Numbers Ideas Are Quite Content to Be a Patchwork Janice Josh Language Cannot Be but in the Heart Meaning Is a Measure of Repose More than Once the Earth May Yield Its Secrets Movement Comes Most Often Without Motion Names Are Little Labels Neil Numbers Pretend There Were No Memories Rare Is the Thing That Makes a Point Reason Is No Cause for Revelation Righteousness Remains the Rock of Faith Rules of a Skeptic Samuel Seldom Do We See Trees Go Out Walking Several Days Before I Was to Die Shadow Is the Haunt of Beauty Sole Proprietor and Only Inmate Talk Is a Phobic Reaction The Future Has No Indians The Los Angeles of 1958 The Mountains Seem as Distant as the Years The Only True Idea The Past Is Never Over The Thought Electric Wings Across the Shallows There Are Mountains Too Beautiful to See There Is No Greater Clarity There Is No Greater Paradise To Be Is Rarely Totally to Be To Be Sure, There Aren't Many Happy Seahorses Trapped Within My Point of View Truth Is a Passion Uncontrolled by Sense Truth Is Just the Opposite of Sense Truth Is When One Says What One Believes Truth Is When We Think that What We Think Why Should We Care that We Must Lose the Past? Words Are Good for Things, like Cars and Trees Words Are Spoken with the Hand and Eye Words Mean Too Much to Mean Too Much at All Ethics Adrian Bullies Like to Pulverize Their Pain Candice Charity Begins Where Interest Ends Charity Is like an Unsung Anthem Charity Should Make the Giver Sing Cheating Is a Crime Against Oneself Chelse Cynicism Comes from Self-Disgust Diba Dorothy Even in the Best of Times Even Though Passions Are Common as Rain Evil Has No Easy Explanation Fearing for My Sanity Fifty-Eight2 Fortune Is a Favor to Be Earned Freedom Is Imprisoned in the Flesh Giving Gives Far More than We Intend Giving Is a Placid Kind of River Gretchen Habit Is the Hand that Shapes the Heart Happiness Has Much to Recommend It Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None Harpies Are but Angels Who Are Harried Heaven Has No Clue to Happiness Here Among the Savages How Can Hope Become a Way of Life If Life Could Be a Court and We Be Tried In Heaven I Met Karl Marx Jayden Jaydon Kayla Maybe Dreams Cannot Come True, but They Maybe More than Love Was Needed Peace Is Just a Brief Time Out from Killing Proverbs of Beauty and Goodness (also under Aesthetics) Proverbs of Good and Evil Proverbs of Happiness Proverbs of Justice and Love Proverbs of Love Proverbs of Trust Reason Can Be Quite Unreasonable Reason Gives to Faith an Obligation Remember the Utility of Shame Rights Are Not Equivalent to Freedom Sacrifice Is Always of the Self Searching for Significance Seymour Show Me All the Bounty of Your Giving Society Is You and Me Tashina There Is No Armor We Can Wear There Is No Jail for the Soul Thirty-Eight3 Thirty-Four3 Thirty-Six5 To Be Happy, One Must Know the Rules To Live Is to Be Prey You Are Now Poised to Kill, Perhaps to Die You Cannot Get Away from Being Plural Metaphysics Accidents Are Rarely Accidental All Creatures Live Their Lives in Ecstasy Bees Swarm Along the Fragile Edge of Darkness Before Chaos, There Was Perfect Light Before Earth, Water, and Air Is Fire Before Us Is Nothing, Neither Future nor Past Being and Becoming Are Creations Being Is a Point, Without Dimension Being Is an Unrequited Passion Beyond the Many Mouths Blessed Are Those Who Dwell in Utter Darkness Blithe Fingers Know the Psalms of Adoration But Darkness Reveals What We Cannot See By Day Each Soul Must Walk Within Its Shadow Darkness Is the Glowing Field of Light Destinee Eighty-Three Elizabeth Eventually, Memories Settle Down Evidence Is Rarely Evident Felice Fly upon Imaginary Wings For Every Rose There Is a Separate Spring Forever Is like Getting Off a Train Forever Is the Strangest Thing Forty-Six Forty-Three Frequently One Finds a Little Sunshine Gisela Happiness Is Neither Here nor There Holiness Is Everywhere Around You How Might Light Have Come from Nothing Just Being Who One Is, Is Paradise Lilith Longing Is the True Eternal Light Metaphysical Proverbs Moments Aren't All There Is to Time Moreover, Though You May Be Accidental My Name Is Vidya Niketan No Better Time than Now Can Be Imagined On Being On Things of Least Significance Paradise Does Not Admit of Seasons Paradise Is Rarely Paradise Proverbs of Consciousness Proverbs of the Soul Some People Are a Ship, and Some a Hearth The Being of Being is Being The Child Was Merely Accidental The Earth Does Not Regret Its Times of Mourning The Gift of Being Cannot Be a Given The Mountains Aren't Near Enough to Heaven The Ocean that We Live on Has No Shore The Wave Without Becomes a Wave Within The Wind the River Roils Well There Is No Greater Miracle than This Thirty-Eight4 Time Has No Relation to Despair Time Is Not a River but a Sea To Find All Cause Within the Present Being Today's an Ocean Which You Sail Forever Twenty-Six2 We Don't Have to See Ourselves Zechariah Wisdom Adages of Age Appearance and Reality At Odds of the Night My Sister Irene and I Barreling Along, I Stopped Awhile Catch the Wind Chris's Death, like Everyone's Congratulations on Your New Domain Each Truth Is Just a Scrim Across the Darkness Face the Passing Years as Though a Painting Fashion for Yourself a Perfect Mirror Fifty-Five2  Fifty-Seven For Ancient Trees Weeping Once a Year Forget that You Are Much Esteemed and Loved  Forty-Three2  Gold Is Not the Only Buried Treasure Happiness Is Something That One Settles for  Home Is Where One Feels a Certain Grace I Am a Lonely Wanderer Lewis Life Is Beautiful, My Child Love Redeems the Passions of the Moment Make Your Heart an Earthly Paradise Make Your Passions Fit Your Pleasures Maybe There Is Nothing More than Sunshine Maybe Time Is like a Snowdrift  Mirror Proverbs  Need Is Nothing More than Strong Desire On Wisdom Patience Is a Sign of Inner Peace Peace Is the Gift of What Nobody Sees Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover Sing of All the Goodness You've Been Granted Singing at the Center of Your Soul Sixty-Eight2 So May You Know the Pleasures of Your State Some Are Picked for Pleasure, Some for Pain Tears Restore Hydraulically Our Balance The Road Ahead Is like the Road Behind The Road to Hope Leads Through Delayed Despair The Story Says: Steal the Magic Jewels The Sun Shines Everywhere There Are Times the Sea Is Sullen Rage There Are Times when Life Yields Little Pleasure There Is a Garden in My Heart There Is No Garden Guaranteed to Bloom Thirty-Seven5  Though Mountains May Seem Far More Solid than Seas Tides Return the Favors They Have Taken  Time Tends to Make the Biggest Problems Small What We Dream of Turns to Dust When I Was Young, I Thought that I Would Be You Had the Gift of Happiness Zachary