ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

A smile can solve your problems but a frown can bring you down .



Bob

....sales resistance to poetry is automatic and universal. People don't really want it, because if it is bad it bores them and if it's good it hurts.



Clive James

I reckon Clive's got something there. Sometimes you can hurt because you are laughing though.

Why wander when you can linger and simply sit a spell.


Bob

Probably hurts, Heather, because good poetry makes them think. Thinking hurts in this era of the simple slogan and the latest herd mentality assumption.

Yep.

Oh come on I've tried twice to get this tread back on track to no avail Zondrae will be calling for it to be locked again if you do not look out.



Never run when you can walk, Never walk when you can sit down, never sit down when you can lie down and never lie down when you can go to sleep.



Bob

It's very cheap to be nice to people.


anon




hmmm, maybe not always .

Four things come not back:
The spoken word; the sped arrow;
Time past; the neglected opportunity.

- Omar Ibn

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon