William Michaelian

Poems, Notes, and Drawings

Tag Archive for ‘Life’

The Living and the Dead

Sometimes, when the bow is not taut, the arrow flies much farther.   The Living and the Dead A pair of starlings are feasting on something in the maple tree outside my window. The tree has just begun to bloom. Its larger branches are covered with moss, some of it old, much of it new. The birds have found something to eat in the moss — newly hatched insects, or […]

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Another Word

You look for love, when love is all there is. You can be numb to love, but you can’t exist outside it.   You say, “What about hate? Hate is not love.” But love wants you well. Hate is love’s bitter pill.   You don’t know, or perhaps you’ve only forgotten: Life is another word for love. It means “I will.”   Recently Banned Literature, May 22, 2011 [ 742 […]

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Symbols

Life is the ultimate virus — it kills everyone. It’s also a symbol — of love. March 7, 2020   Symbols Flight and Bird — and then one day Light became Word, And Sky and Heart concurred. [ 687 ]

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