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Taste the Wild Wonder: Poems

John Mark Green

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Such aching mystery hides, in your stardust-glimmer eyes.”

“I blinked my eyes and in an instant, decades had passed.”

“We are snowflakes, melting on the tongue of the universe.”

“She is a living, breathing work of art. As audacious as Dali's mustache, mysterious like a Mona Lisa smile. As sensual as O'Keeffe's painted petals, glorious, like a Van Gogh starry night.”

“Rebellious leaves going out in a blaze of glory, setting trees aflame in riotous color. Reluctant surrender to rumors of coming winter.”

“ When it rains, the world softens around the edges; streets and sidewalks become a liquid mirror onto which lights and colors bleed. When it rains, everything becomes beautiful . . . for a while.”

“Exquisite beauty is often hidden in life's fragile, fleeting moments.”

“A Brief Awakening In the vastness of the out-rushing cosmos, you are but tiny—a warm and pulsing spark. Against all odds, your birth a brief awakening from silent eons spent sleeping in the dark. When you feel your heart swell with wild wonder at the dazzling diamond chandeliers of night, know your body was built from ancient stardust and the universe now sees through your eyes. So let the breath of sweet gratitude fill you, as the light of each new day begins. For this moment itself is a miracle, and to live it is your privilege my friend.”

“Wild creatures somehow know where they must go, but we— we humans wander the paths of confusion. Trying to be so many things other than our true selves.”

“The poetry I love best has words that glimmer like moon gold on dark waters, and a hidden undertow which pulls me into its delicate sadness.”

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