The Humbling and Other Poems Quotes

“Be more than symbol, strength, and dream. / Be light! Inspire! Revive! / Redeem!

(from Phoenix: Salvation)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“The past no longer limits me. / I drift on wind and live as free / above the houses, mountains, clouds, / the cities gripped by anxious crowds, / alighting where I will by day / whenever I decide to stay.

(from Now I've Become a Butterfly)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“Beyond the rambling waterfalls, / the thunders mumbling in their sleep, / and crickets with encrypting trills, / the dialogues run far and deep / throughout the forests most ignore: / the histories of all that crawls...

(from Conversations with Gaia)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“Come dreamers, / be our architects!

(from Architects of the Impossible)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“you wonder / when you start to rise, / if light exists / outside this night, / but this is how / it all begins: / from darkness / not of any sins...

(from Lotus Dreamer)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“One lie might eye the highest throne / inside the castle of your mind, / and any whim may play the lord / when left unchecked, out of control, / once knights of reason flee their posts, / let sentiments invade these walls, / then leave the keep without defense. / How easily a kingdom falls!

(from Interior Kingdom)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“Let aspirations reach as leaves / which feel for sun beyond the clouds, / whatever warmth and radiance / might make your mind more like the rose:

(from Florescence)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“A mouse would solve this handily, / except I like to probe unknowns / and be amazed by what I find / along the corners of your mind. / Wherever you will let me start, / l love to learn your ways by heart.

(from Amazed)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“Old foliage ignores the anxious sun / since dismal winds convince each brittle branch / to hold no moment closely or too long / now shadows spread and all turns silhouette. / But then she smiles, reviving life with light, / and hope may spring eternal one more night.

(from April, Autumnal)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“I'm just a student, one who sees / the paradox of Socrates, / to understand I do not know / and yet enlighten as I go.”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“May peace be ever in your sight / and conquer hearts of those who'd fight / for false beliefs or grievous wrongs / or threaten hate where hope belongs.

(from Prayer for the Voices of Resistance)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“No, life's not wholly vanished here. / You only have to look for it, / behind, before, between these leaves, / above the broken ends of branches / where one small bluebird takes its pause...

(from Between These Leaves)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“Let blessings only dwell here, yes, / not one phantasm of the past, / for now begins the exorcism / evicting darkness at long last.

(from Renovation of a Soul)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“Tomorrows hinge / on one decision. / In all directions: / consequence.

(from Destinations)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“the universe / is not just you."

(from Personal Copernican Revolution)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“A union of coordinates / from where we stand / and who we were / to how we reach / eternal love: / our special relativity...

(from Love's Special Relativity)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“With one glove off, you trace the heavens, / fingers full of reverence...

(from Stargazers on a Winter's Night)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems