“A mermaid found a swimming lad,
 Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.”

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William Butler Yeats

"Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest,

but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot." —
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Margot Datz      

(A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids)

When you were born,

you cried and the world rejoiced.

Live your life so that when you die,

 the world cries and you rejoice.

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~ Cherokee Expression

a Spark of Heavenly Fire

"There is in every true woman's heart,

a spark of heavenly fire,

which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity,

but which kindles up and beams and blazes

 in the dark hour of adversity"

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Washington Irving

Lil Red Riding Hood

"Hey there Little Red Rindin' Hood

you sure are lookin ' good

your everything a Big Bad Wolf could want

Owwwwwwww!!!

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Sam the Sham

& the Pharohs

Totems

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

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Mason Cooley



Heros

A hero is no braver

than an ordinary man,

but he is brave

five minutes longer.

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 Ralph Waldo Emerson



Roman Arch

Man - despite his artistic pretensions,

sophistication, and his many accomplishments -

owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

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Author Unknown

an olde dusty chair

"Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger."

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Bill Cosby

Once again she is his.....



"Once again she is his…

Once again she returns…

to the arms of her angel!

Angel or demon?

Still he calls her, luring her back from the grave!

Angel, or dark seducer?

Who are you, strange angel?"

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Gaston Leroux:

Phantom of the Opera

In the Eyes of a Child

"There are no

seven wonders of the world

in the eyes of a child,

there are seven million."

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Walt Streightiff



the Light of a Child

"I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring." 

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Liz Armbruster

the Yearning

"She calls to me,

a whispering

in the wind,

a touch

of the salt spray,

a yearning

in my very soul.

the Sea,

she beckons me,

and I must ....obey."

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original by

C.A.Beach