Balance Virtuoso Gifts

Balancing two espresso martinis

A martial artist doing a one-handed handstand

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"I'm afraid you have a condition called 'googly-eyes'."

"In my next album 'Gettin' Back', I refute all the strong beliefs expressed in 'Gettin' There', my previous album."

Gymnasts falling off the winners pedestal.

"A man never stands so tall, son, as when he stoops to pick up a quarter."

'Apparently it's part of the evolutionary process!'

'The other kids at school say I might need glasses, Dad.'

'Coleridge'

"It's my conscience... It's all achy"

'Aha! I think I figured out the headache problem, one of these things is pointed the other way. This would explain the double vision.'

Writer

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff

Poetry repairman

'I'm a voice over artist.'

"I don't like the tone of your voice. Mind if I tweak it a bit?"

Bring It On!

"Now this is a Francis Ford Coppola. We still haven't been here quite long enough to be drinkable ourselves."

'Crikey, you've got to have good eye-sight to look through those glasses, haven't you?'

'They call me the 'grandfather' of Hip-Hop!'

Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuev

'You've had the eye exam. Now buy the t-shirt!'

Writer Blinds Shakespeare in Shame.

Leonard Cohen

Dante Alighieri

'Every time I manage to learn the second verse of a song, I forget the first one.'

Emily Dickinson

"It's the poet in him trying to get out."

James Russell Lowell

"The secret of time management? Never take anyone off hold."

Guillaume Apollinaire

'You're a poet? I've got a great simile for you.'

Let's see what's around the poetry corner. You mean, we should take a turn for the verse.

Poet becomes a puppeteer for his own hand.