The Sun Hid In Her Cave When She Deserts The Night.

(When we all crawled into the cave.)

“The sun to me is dark
And silent as the moon,
When she deserts the night
Hid in her vacant, interlunar cave.”

- John Milton


I went into a real cave, But
I could just as easily go into an unreal one.

- Ghostwise

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Epimenides was sent by his father into the field to look for a sheep, turned out of the road at mid-day and lay down in a certain cave and fell asleep, and slept there fifty-seven years; and after that, when awake, he went on looking for the sheep, thinking that he had been taking a short nap.

- Diogenes Laertius


Don't sleep in a cave,
You could wake up fifty-seven years late.

- Ghostwise

My Shoulder Is Waiting For The Butterfly.

(Yesterday, I caught this picture of a butterfly just emerged from its cocoon.)

May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun
And find your shoulder to light on,
To bring you luck, happiness and riches
Today, tomorrow and beyond.

- Irish Blessing


My shoulder is waiting,
For the butterfly to settle on.

- Ghostwise

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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne


I sat quietly and waited for the butterfly,
But neither butterfly nor happiness came.

- Ghostwise

I Waited Too Long To Kiss Her In The Rain

(The rain continued today...)

April Rain Song
Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk
The rain makes running pools in the gutter
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night
And I love the rain.

- Langston Hughes


I love the rain most because it drowns my pain.
And when it can't, it hides it from prying eyes.

- Ghostwise

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I should have kissed her if the rain
Had lasted a minute more.

- Thomas Hardy


But the rain stopped and she
Was kissed by the sun instead.

- Ghostwise