“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?"

*****

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."

*****

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."

****

original by

C.A.Beach

Before the Mast

"There is witchery in the sea,

its songs and stories,

and in the mere sight of a ship,

and the sailors dress,

espesially to a young mind,

which has done more to man navies,

and fill merchant men,

then all the pressgangs of Europe."

*******

Richard Henry Dana Jr.

two years before the mast:

a salors lfe at sea.

Waitting to Exhale...!?!?

"S.C.U.B.A. Diving is sensual.

To breathe underwater is one of the most fascinating and peculiar sensations imaginable.

Breathing becomes a rythmic melody

of inhalations and exhalations.

The crack and pops of fish and crustaceans harmonize with the rythmic chimming

of the bubbles as you exhale.

Soon, lungs act as bellows, controlling your bouyancy as you achieve weightlessness.

And, as in your dreams,

you are flying.

Combine these otherworldly stimuli

and you surrender completley

to the sanctuary

of the underwater world.

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Tec Clark, forward, Karen Bergers SCUBA Diving

Born of Two Countries, Loved as One

"If a man should importune me

to give a reason why I loved him,

I find it could no otherwise be expressed,

then by making answer:

because it was He,

because it was I."

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Michel de Montaigne

Forefathers

"Let us make

future generations

remember us

as proud ancestors

just as, today,

we remember

our forefathers."

****

Moo-Hyum-Roh

Self Portrait of a Cowboy

There are 3 kinds of men in the world.

The ones that learn by readin',

The few that learn by observation,

And the rest of them

thats got to pee on that electric fence.

****

old cowboy saying

"All creatures must learn to coexist.

Thats why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony.

Of course they can't mate,

or the mice would explode!"

....

Betty White

MichiganStateWideSmokingBan2010

"Watching the smoke

dance out of a cigarette,

is like watching a girl

dance out of her dress."

...

D.H. Monfluer

the Long Road

"Map out your future,

but do it in pencil.

The road ahead

is as long as you make it.

make it worth the trip

**********

Jon Bon Jovi

the Brick House

"He that tries to recommend (Shakespere)

by select quotations,

will succeed like the pendant in "Hierocles",

who, when he offered his house for sale,

carried a brick in his pocket for a speciamen"

...

Samuel Johnson

(1709-1784)

the Arch

"Simplicity and Repose

are the qualities that measure

the true value of any work of art."

...

Frank Lloyd Wright

(1867-1959)

"In the childhood memories

of every good cook,

there is a large kitchen,

a warm stove,

a simmering pot,

and a MoM"

Strength and Endurance

Master Matty Bottles

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our Light, not our Darkness

that most frightens us."

....

Marrianne Williamson

Capt'n of the Archangel

"My fate cannot be mastered;

it can only be collaborated with and thereby,

to some extant,

directed.

Nor am I the Captain of my Soul;

i am only it's nosiest passanger!"

....

Aldous Huxley

(1894-1963)

He's Giving you the "Eye"

"i have my "EYES" on you!!!...Hey Baby how you doin!?!""

"Harumph!...so thats whats behind the curatin!?!?"

Vanity of a Peacock

"People are crying up the rich and variegated plummage of the peacock....

...and he himself is blushing at his ugly feet!"

...

unknown

the DetroitZoo Polar Bear

The polar Bear never makes his bed;

He sleeps on a cake of ice instead.

He has no blanket, no quilt, no sheet

Except the rain and snow and sleet.

He drifts about on a white ice flow,

While cold winds howl and blizzards blow.

and the temprature drops to forty below.

.

The Polar Bear never makes his bed;

The blanket he pulls up over his head

Is lined with soft and feathery snow.

If he ever rose and turned on the light

He would find a world of bathtub white

And iceburgs floating thuogh the night

.

Polar Bear Poem by

William Jay Smith

the Detroit Tiger

"It is not part of a true culture to tame a Tiger,

anymore than it is to make a sheep ferocious"

Henry David Thoreau

.

.

.

.

.

.

I love sports. Whenever i can, i allways watch the Detroit Tigers on the Radio"

Gerald R. Ford

Dancing Bears Fountain (Detroit Zoo)

I may go out tomorrow if i can borrow a coat to wear,

Oh I'd step out in style with my sincere smile and my dancing bear,

Outrageous alarming courageous charming

Oh who would think a boy and a bear

Could be well accepted everywhere

It's just amazing how fair people can be

Seen at the nicest places where well fed faces all stop to stare

Making the grandest entrance is Simon Smith and his Dancing Bear

They'll love us, won't they?

They feed us, don't they?

Oh who would think a boy and a bear

Could be well accepted everywhere

It's amazing how fair people can be

Who needs money when your funny?

The big attraction everywhere

Will be Simon Smith and his Dancing Bear

It's Simon Smith and his amazing Dancing Bear

Randy Newman

American Bison

"Historically the Buffalo had more influence on Man than all other Plains animals combined.

It was life ,

food,

rainment

and shelter

to the Indians.

The Buffalo and the Plains Indians

lived together,

and they shall pass together."

...

Walter Prescott Webb

(1931)

Frozen Bear Butt

Advice from a Poalr Bear:

1. Live Large
2. Sniff out oppurtunities
3. learn some good icebreakers
4. be thick skinned
5. be fearless
6. appreciate long winter nights
7. keep it cool

sassy

Reflection of Buterflies

"just like the Butterfly....

...i too will awaken in my own time"

...

Deborah Chaskin

Lady Liberty

"She stands as the recognised sentinel of Liberty on the bulwarks of civilisation, flinging the free rays of her lighted torch out into the gloom of the world's continuous contentions, warning the enemies of human freedom against further conspiracies for it's suppression, and defending the ground it has all ready won for the enjoyment of the human race under divinely favourable conditions."

the New England Magizine
(1887)

Tiger Lily

" 'Oh Tiger Lily', said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind,

'i wish you could talk!',

'We can talk', said the Tiger Lily,

'when ther's anyone worth talking to!'"

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

(1832-1898)

Daisy in Sunlight

"Brute force crushes many plants.
Yet the Plants rise again.
The Pyrimids will not last a moment compared to the Daisy."

D.H.Lawrence
(1885-1930)

SuneShine Leaf

"our lord has written the promise of resurection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime"


Martin Luthur
(1483 - 1546)