Part 2 - A Collection of Quotable (?) Quotes, by Hill Roberts (copyright 2010)

 

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Subject: Part 2 - A Collection of Quotable (?) Quotes, by Hill Roberts (copyright 2010)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:06:14 +0000

As promised, here is "Part 2 - A Collection of Quotable (?) Quotes".  I may have failed to mention it before,
but some of the lines in my Part 1 Collection were lifted from my original poems which I had given specific
themes for each quotation.  I have thoroughly enjoyed writing these quips and Parts 3 & 4 will be published
in July and August, respectively.
 
Each part will be allotted fifty quotations
so that there's more time to savour and enjoy each theme. I've also tried to make each quotation short for memory recall. Here are the new fifty Quotable (?) Quotes.
 
1. Insight: a prevailing hiccup that refuses to stop with noise.
 
2. Yearning: it's a steady retrenchment of aimless flightwithout which, the earnings fall short of the outcome.

 
3. Conscience: a gnawing element that requires you and I to recant, when we can, without the guilt that hammers the mind.
 
4. Penance: it keeps returning to haunt and blight showmanship, especially when kneeling while going to church.
 
5. Feeling trapped: you make no amends to nasty chasms while whistling endlessly without being listened to.

 
6. Heaven: don't condemn yourself to something unforeseen, especially when no one's there to
                greet you.
 
7. Helping someone: a kindly offer but rarely a blood compact.
 
8. Betrayal: the squeamishness is registered into disks without your knowledge of course.
 
9. Adventure: it's an interception more than a revelation of what you are.
 
10. Morale: it's a matter of pure embitterment especially when morals are questionable.
 
11. Confidence: it can be regained even more with a few con tricks but finding them is trickier.
 
12. Momentum: just don't utter nonsense in silence, otherwise you'd lose your balance.
 
13. Difficult times: they're harder to mask in front of phoney accomplices.
 
14. Blame: you're not supposed to delve deep into the disappearing abyss of self-infliction.
 
15. Essence: only if you know the difference between ember and  smoke for it is that
                   aspect of life where things could go wrong.
 
16. Redemption: it can hit us like scary, planted gnomes, without  the immediacy of forgiveness
                       notwithstanding.
 
17. Forgiveness: an element that means nothing to you and me and where empty words
                        don't sound as good as a smack across the face.
 
18. Truth: we're not so apart in judging people, just wait until judgement day.
 
19. Hatred: it seems to grow each time we breathe.
 
20. Life: just one aspect that events can't overreach without having to live to see it.
 
21. Gesture: it helps keep the conversation going--just make sure you don't point
                  that finger at my face.
 
22. Sympathy: I don't need the loss to toss it back at you.
 
23. Fate: it's a lonely length to the cause of heartache.
 
24. Humour: it's  hidden in those thick elbows rather well, until you realise no one
                 actually finds it funny.
 
25. Innocence: it supposes understanding but not its fervent coming.
 
26. Survival: tomorrow, another new crook will come around and prey.
 
27. Hell: it's lukewarm when there's no one to welcome you to fire you up.
 
28.Constituents: they see fiction and truth while cowering behind rags and filth.
 
29. The Economy: secret fat payroll will  greatly be reduced.
 
30. (Personal) Appearance: they insist on good grooming without the punch and substance.
 
31. Dirty Tricks: it may either swing or sway, depending on your stoic stance to dirt.
 
32. Misery: there's no protection from unwarranted strife.
 
33. Power: it's a lifetime gem of greed, and the occasional hit list to put people in line.
 
34. Generosity: a few lousy tips from corporate creeps remind us to be on guard all the time.
 
35. Virtue: it's virtually nil in people who profess to possess it.
 
36. Value: its true meaning would be badly-erased with the question, "How much?"
 
37. Winning: dimensions begin with the usual promises they undertake while forgetting the promises before they had won it.
 
38. Society: only if, only when, and only they will attest to what it is all about.
 
39. United Nations: they harness diplomatic ties to prolong their employment.
 
40. Baloney: disengage this skill and your own bounty increases.
 
41. Caution: goodwill rebounds in excess.

42. Danger: it can be made easy by way of massage, just mind the contagious diseases lurking around.

43. Greatness: just share the spoils without feeling rejected.
 
44. Cronyism: it formalises the dictum without the vacuum.
 
45. Pain:  all things considered,one must endure without the nurture.
 
46. Childhood days: just the sort of stuff you could all foresee in a wandering glee.

47. Misjudgement:  it can cruelly be so near that moment of challenge without the revenge.
 
48. Pretension:  it's a partner in our bone marrow--just make sure no one notices it.
 
49. Saying Adios: godspeed my dear, don't ever unpack!

50. Compromise: please don't rub in the consequent  uprising.

(Note: Those who wish to use My  Original Quotations are welcome for as long as credit is given to the author. Thanks.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A Socio-Political Poem called: "Land Mines">>Silver Medal at the International Society of Poets, Washington, D.C. 2000

(Abridged Version, a requirement at the Competition...The Unabridged Version has twenty two stanzas...)

They crawl, they beg, they lie about in cases,
The peace and quiet and ugly open spaces,
Giving up that hope, giving up a dream,
Their knowledge of life is limited to a scream;

So near, yet far, estranged and no help,
They try to reach out, they can only yelp,
The barking, the mooing, as if there's no more hell,
A donation, a clasp, and nothing more to quell;

That tunnel of hope reminds you and me,
It brings forth truth but nowhere to see,
It brushes the tone of moderation and diplomacy,
While the real victims of land mines recognise no supremacy;

"Spell it out why we need those mines,"
Suppliers survive, factories an endless spine,
The real angst of victims is their own uselessness,
Dutiful Red Cross always ending up to assess;

One, two, three, four, make a million more,
Five, six, seven, eight, add up to the fore,
Nine, ten, eleven, twelve, forget unlucky thirteen,
The nth victim of that mine, lay unconscious, unforeseen.

"Published in the anthology, "The Woodland Echoes", The International Library of Poetry, 1999. Also integrated in a cassette tape along with other nine other best poems, 1999. Voted Editor's Choice Award, 1999. The unabridged version of "Land Mines" has 48 lines.

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