Poetry Healing

Butterfly Effect

Is the butterfly beautiful
Because its beating wings
Are the first domino falling in the chain Of a mighty Pacific storm

Or for what it is,
At the moment the sun
Catches its wings,
drifting languidly
In the afternoon breeze?

By-Matthew Flaherty

"Release everything that is not beneficial to your well-being. Let it all go. Let it fall away like old leaves..."
— Mary Anne Byrne

"If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!"

Maya Angelou

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
- E.E. Cummings

"Each day comes bearing its gifts. / Untie the ribbon." — Ann Ruth Schabacker

"Time is a storm in which we are all lost."
William Carlos Williams

“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”

HARVEY MACKAY

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver

"Do not confuse things that are hard with things that are valuable.

Many things in life are hard. Just because you are giving a great effort does not mean you are working toward a great result.

Make sure that mountain is worth climbing."

- James Clear

“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which
they see and feel.”
Jim Morrison