Stanza Explorer Gifts

If poets wrote road signs.

Baby rocks!

"Showoff"

"Our psychopharmacologist is a genius."

'It's the Mesolithic Age? - But I just got used to the PALEOlithic!'

Ted Hughes

Poetry repairman

Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuev

"It's either enlightenment or excruciating boredom."

"Mom?"

"We'd like to take a majority position in your poetry."

'Somewhere with good karma.'

"Forgive me Father, I'm about to sin."

ME, MEDITATING ON NO-SELF

"I'll have whatever they're having."

'We've been on the road to sexual enlightenment for over four hours...let's pull over for a coffee...'

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The absurd artist

'Then it's agreed. It doesn't have to rhyme.'

'It's a Sam Shepard play with the usual props - burnt toast, live animals, and a penis or two.'

'You must be the new guy! welcome to riding club buddy!'

'The problem is I can't tell the difference between a deeply wise, intuitive nudge from the Universe and one of my own bone-headed ideas!'

"I've taken up meditation! - Well, it's better than sitting 'round all day doing nothing. . ."

Climber to guru: 'Where's the outrage?'

"It's our neighbor. He wants to borrow our GPS tracker."

'If you must know, because my hairpiece blew away!'

Alexander Blok

Archaeologists look at stratigraphy with irons in it - 'And right above the Stone Age strata you can clearly see artefacts from the 'Iron Age'!'

We reserve the right to refuse enlightenment to anyone.

One-Martini Lunch

"Michael Bolton at Folsom Prison"

No caption. (A man in climbing gear walks on a stair-stepper machine. Showing on a monitor in front of him is a Buddhist monk).

"Don't sit under the Bodhi Tree with anyone else but me."

"White Rabbit, Cottontail and Mr. Fluffy. Why the code names?"

"I'm right because it feels right!"