Sometimes in composition class, when I have been confronted by someone who simply cannot get the first word written on paper, I give the following advice: Say your essay into a tape recorder and then write it down. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
FRUITS AND NUTSKeep jumping around them like monkeys.The clones,Commercialized zombies,And the TV junkies.Keep throwing berries,Twigs,And nuts at them.Until they wake upTo see what's up And figure out whyWe're laughing at 'em. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I want to read every book that’s writtenhear every song that was sungI want to gaze at every cloudand hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
He taught me to be a Da Vinci and I sit here, with his portraits waiting for him to returnI do not think he willIs that what it means to be humanto be all powerful, to build a temple to yourselfand leaveonly the walls to pray Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I remember yoursaying: "make itor break it."neither happened anditwon't. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Without the wetness of your love, the fragrance of your water, or the trickling sounds of your voice ― I shall always feel thirsty. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Our Beasts and our Thieves and our ChattelsHave weight for good or for ill;But the Poor are only His image,His presence, His word, His will; -And so Lazarus lies at our doorstepAnd Dives neglects him still. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Lovers meander in prose and rhyme,trying to say-for the thousandth time-what's easier done than said. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>