LET’S ALL HELP TO FURTHER THE CAUSE OF HSR!

Ongoing train and HSR conferences, the recent National Train Day last week, and our high speed rail book “Fast Trains” are all helping to further the cause of HSR. Order a copy of our popular HSR book and you can help the cause, too!

Visit our site here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00847FNNK

CELESTIAL LOVE

When you really love someone, you love them in a spiritual and deeply reverent way as well as in all the other ways so often written about!

Patrick The Poet

 

CELESTIAL LOVE

Like a drop of dew caressing a frail flower,
Like a stream of sunlight bathing a lurid lake
Before the day arrives and God’s angels awake
(When the glory of His love makes every heart ache
And pray for strength in life’s most desperate hour!)–

I will hold you like silence holds a precious word:
With a touch of God’s softest, most delicate love,
Near the source of every prayer ever prayed and heard!
(Wherein…like a drop of dew or a fragile bird,
I shall love you like God loves His angels above!)

National Train Day Was A Blast And Went Fast!

  Wow, our Fast Trains book-signing events on National Train Day this past Saturday in Chicago and Wilmington, NC, were incredible smash hits. We can’t wait for the next coming events…and to meet you at them and show you our fabulous HSR book!

Check us out here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00847FNNK

Patrick The Copywriting Poet

THIS WEEK’S BAR QUOTES – (05-29-09)

We live by words, and here are some great ones to live by…or at least enjoy reading!

Patrick The Poet

THIS WEEK’S BAR QUOTES – (05-29-09)

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
–Lord Byron

An actor’s a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, he ain’t listening.
–Marlon Brando

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
–Bette Davis

It’s not true that I said “actors are cattle.” I said “they should be treated like cattle.
–Alfred Hitchcock

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
–Bertrand Russell, “Unpopular Essays”

Logic is in the eye of the logician.
–Gloria Steinem

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
–Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
–Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time reading it.
–Moses Hadas (1900-1966)

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
–Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
–Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
–Goethe (1749-1832)

In the end, everything is a gag.
–Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.
–Lucille S. Harper

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.
–Yogi Berra

THE STORY OF OUR LIVES

Because life goes on after this earthly death, so does love.  At least the truest and soul mate kind of love!  As this poem of mine esoterically describes.  For it’s true: some stories do not ever end!

Patrick The Poet

 

THE STORY OF OUR LIVES 

 

Like a river and sea that never cease to flow,

Ah, each time I kiss you I yearn to kiss you more!

And ride along the tide and let our longings grow:

There are risks to take…and needs love needs to explore!

 

For time is rich, and this is no time to go slow;

As we are entwined, and the tide has reached the shore!

So it must be time to let joy and passion know

Love is something destiny should never ignore!

 

For like a river and sea that never cease to flow,

When I first saw you I fell in love with you again,

As I had in countless dreams that never failed to show

Soon the story of my life would finally begin.

 

For the story of my life is one the world should know:

It starts in a dream…then becomes a soul mate and friend!

Then…like a river and sea that never cease to flow,

Although someday someone dies…the story doesn’t end.

NATIONAL TRAIN DAY THIS SATURDAY, MAY 11!

National Train Day is this Saturday, May 11. Book authors Emy Louie and Nancy Bolts will be in Chicago, IL, and Wilmington, NC, providing signed copies of their exciting high speed rail book “Fast Trains” for everyone. Contact us here for more details and be part of this fabulous Saturday weekend event.  Don’t miss out!
And visit our book site here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00847FNNK

FOR A DANCER

Might be a hundred ways to describe this song by Jackson Browne.  Deep, philosophical, sensitive, poignant, wise, and bittersweet are several that come to mind.  I consider “For A Dancer” his third greatest written song–which ain’t easy cause almost all his songs are great and incomparable!  But this is definitely one you need to listen to, and read along–for the lyrics are included with this recording on YouTube.  I’d be curious to hear everyone’s feedback and impression after you listen to this lilting torch song about the meaning of life that Jackson Browne wrote for a friend who lost his in the Vietnam War.  What’s also neat is that The Eagles sing backup on the song!

PaTricK ThE PoeT

LINK TO SONG & LYRICS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78AVc2jV4Sg