WyzWmn's Words to the Wise

Try not…do or do not.  – Yoda

Try again, fail again….Fail better. – Samuel Becket

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle…is another riddle. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.~ Joseph Campbell

People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it. – Walter Langer

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. ~ Hermann Hesse

“Why are motorcycle dealers closed on Sundays?  Because Sunday is for worship… Catholics go to church, Motorcyclists hit the road.”  – Justin Skalka

Wrinkles and Roads
I’ve faced my demons, more than once
Spit against the wind
Walked on water, so I thought
Ventured into sin
Moved the Earth, a time or two
Ate my share of dirt
Spurned the gift of life itself
Death whispered its flirt
Wrinkles travel upon my face
As lines from a weathered map
Roads destined to end at fate
Time, the eternal trap
Wisdom sprouts from failed seeds
Lessons to be learned
Still waters, run deeper still
When bridges have been burned
I’m not one to dwell upon
Choices left behind
I choose to see what lies ahead
For hindsight can be blind
Wrinkles travel upon my face
Reflecting roads of past
I pray to ever taste the wind
The roads, to ever last
Ironhorse Writer
© 1/03/2003

“And I to my motorcycle
Parked like the soul of the junkyard
Restored, a bicycle fleshed
With power, and tore off
Up Highway 106 continually
Drunk on the wind in my mouth
Wringing the handlebar for speed
Wild to be wreckage forever.”

– James Dickey