Pete : Writing

Cliché Ashtray

Cliché Ashtray

A Poem by Pete


There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. - Thoreau
Buyer Beware (No Exchanges, No Returns)

Buyer Beware (No Exchanges, No Returns)

A Poem by Pete


The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. - Thoreau
The Sound of Music (It's Not Just The Hills That Are Alive)

The Sound of Music (It's Not Just The Hills That A..

A Poem by Pete


What is there in music that it should so stir our deeps? - Thoreau
It's Raining Her

It's Raining Her

A Poem by Pete


he clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve. - Thoreau
Fetal Times

Fetal Times

A Poem by Pete


We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they. - Thoreau
Gavel Unravel

Gavel Unravel

A Poem by Pete


We do not live by justice, but by grace. - Thoreau
Moody, Performing A Sworn Duty

Moody, Performing A Sworn Duty

A Poem by Pete


Is not January the hardest month to get through? When you have weathered that you get into the gulf-stream of winter nearer the shores of spring. - Th..
Finishing What You Didn't Start

Finishing What You Didn't Start

A Poem by Pete


When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. - Thoreau
If The Song Starts, It's Got To Finish

If The Song Starts, It's Got To Finish

A Poem by Pete


Beauty and music are not mere traits and exceptions. They are the rule and character. It is the exception that we see and hear. - Thoreau
Enough Is Not Enough

Enough Is Not Enough

A Poem by Pete


Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. - Thoreau