Top 15 Naomi Replansky Quotes

Tomorrow we cross/The borders of loss

Neither destroyed nor diamond/I walk from the core of your flame,/The rain does not hiss when it hits me,/And I answer to my old name.

My words may turn into stones/as easily as a man/turned one day into silence.

His praise like rain runs down the gutters

When there was one kiss/against ten curses/and one loaf/against ten hungry/and one hello/against ten goodbyes/the odds stalked/your crooked steps.

Unmade by what has made me

In silence is the smell of treachery, and sanction/Of hunger, and therefore I shout./But in the storm of sound I clothe myself/In a hush like fur.

Born of a war, I was always aching and straining/To nuzzle myself into peace./Peace when it came was hunted and haunted, and stayed/Just for a moment.

The hunters hang onto their man/And merrily pass by/Where I scot-free and you scot-free/Stand in the shadow of Why.

I must learn again to give it welcome.

I was, I did, but I will let it be./Tonight I must hold dear/Whatever brought me here.

Excuse me for living,/But, since I am living,/Given inches, I take yards,/Taking yards, dream of miles/And a landscape, unbounded/And vast in abandon./And you dreaming the same.

All, all runs wild, all wild and uncontrolled./A toad hops from my mouth instead of gold.

I learned the speech of birds; now every tree/Screams out to me a baleful prophecy.

No god came down, my brothers,/To breathe on them, my sisters./Their bodies made a mountain/That never touched the heavens./Whose lightning struck the killers?/Whose rain drowned out the fires?/My brothers and my sisters,/No angel leaned upon them./No miracle could shield them/From the cold human hands.