Words of Wisdom From a Mad Man

I say just simply this:

Heal the mind.
And then work for the air, the trees, the water and the animals.

And the people? Tough. If you want to live in my world, come and go through what I went through to live in my world. You don't just come get in my world. You have to do something to earn my world. I wouldn't let a lot of those people in my world if I had the say so about it. I don't have to destroy them, all I have to do is just say no. I don't want that in my world.

I don't want that confusion in my world.

You don't have to let those people in your mind.

You let the people in your mind that are helping your mind. And your mind is the only mind.
You are the mind. You are the earth, you are the air, the trees, you are the animals, you are everything. You are the child of god. That's the truth. Period.

WOMAN

She wanted to be a blade

of grass amid the fields

But he wouldn't agree

to be the Dandelion

She wanted to be a robin singing

through the leaves

but he refused to be

her tree

She spun herself into a web

and looking for a place to rest

turned to him

but he stood straight

declining to be her cornor

She tried to be a book

But he wouldn't read

She turned herself into a blub

but he wouldn't let her grow

She decided to become

a Woman

and though he still refused

to be a man

She decided it was all

right

Poetry by Nikki Giovanni

Photos by me

Angels Among The Trees

Fair Youth Beneath The Trees, Thou Canst Not Leave

Thy Song, Nor Ever Can Those Trees Be Bare

Never, Never Canst thou Kiss,

Yet Do Not Grieve;

She Cannot Fade, Though Thou Hast Not Thy Bliss,

Forever Wilt Thou Love, And She Be Fair!

Thou Shalt Remain, In Midst Of Woe

A Friend

To Whom Thou Say'st,

"Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty,- That Is All

Ye Know On Earth, and All Ye Need To Know."
Photos by Wendie, Poetry by John Keats