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Drowning On Dry Land

A Poem by Pete

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance o..

Sheer Poetry In Motion

A Poem by Pete

My life has been the poem I would have writ, but I could not both live and utter it. - Thoreau

You, Me And Everything We Think

A Poem by Pete

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the ..

Make Music Not War

A Poem by Pete

Only the defeated and deserters go to war. - Thoreau

Just Wondering Why

A Poem by Pete

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - Thoreau

Off with His Head ("In You End Oh")

A Poem by Pete

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried. - Thoreau

Royal Straight Flush (But Anyway)

A Poem by Pete

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. - Thoreau

The Praying Tree

A Poem by Pete

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground. - Thoreau

Born Again

A Poem by Pete

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature..

Jack And Jill

A Poem by Pete

I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled wit..