Ben Ditmars > Quotes

“Like a tree
I have stood my ground
Not fallen.”
― Ben Ditmars, Haiku in the Night

“festive hearts wane
and sink like tides of joy.”
― Ben Ditmars, Night Poems

“May you feel love unclouded and unjaded by experience.”
― Ben Ditmars, Four Paws: A Poetry Anthology by The Quillective Project

“I played until my lips
gave out on cigarettes
and thoughts of you.”
― Ben Ditmars, Mirrored Voices: Best Modern Poets

“she was
only fascinated
under neptune

increasingly
outside my reach at
night.”
― Ben Ditmars, Moments at Midnight: A Poetry Collaboration

“He could go to hell for all she cared but Journey was a loss clawing at her throat each morning.”
― Ben Ditmars

“If i were alcohol...
I would burn as you swallowed me whole.”
― Ben Ditmars, Moments at Midnight: A Poetry Collaboration

“He thinks of subtle, vast
unbroken things
I can only read about in books
or see on screen.”
― Ben Ditmars, People Are Strange

“I’ve strived to be a lion
all my life
because they tell me boys
are made of fangs and blood
but maybe there is
more to us and we
are wolves with
greater patience for
long hunts at night.”
― Ben Ditmars, Moments at Midnight: A Poetry Collaboration

“I wasted time and memories on waves.”
― Ben Ditmars, Triptychs

“we whisper songs
about scars

trepidation
before letting go.”
― Ben Ditmars, Mirrored Voices : Best Contemporary Poetry

“Lively, lost, together,
I am always yours.”
― Ben Ditmars, Haiku in the Night

“we can’t choose
to be square
or circle
or a rhombus
or a tetrahedron
but we are”
― Ben Ditmars, Conversations

“But they were nonetheless consumed with a fire of loyalty, that paid no heed to years or age.”
― Ben Ditmars, Gnomes of Coyul: The Crystal Staff

“You are young, so young
that failure seems impossible.”
― Ben Ditmars, Night Poems

“We were once indigenous enough to drink the rain.”
― Ben Ditmars

“When you have a soul sometimes it burns.”
― Ben Ditmars, Conversations

“life is either
a daring adventure
or quiet moments spent with chocolate
and your tortured sanity.”
― Ben Ditmars

“I feel our dark hearts
shadow night stars.”
― Ben Ditmars, Inhale the Night

“I was left feeling Yah's emotions. But, also - something else: the most curious of feelings; control.”
― Ben Ditmars, Witherspork

“So he dreamt of the land of sunbeams; and that
was a dream indeed!”
― Ben Ditmars, The Old Crone and the Princess

“there is a cultural perception
that we deserve this
because we overeat
or lack self-control
and it is
bullshit.

diseases will
affect almost half
of all americans.

it is no one’s fault”
― Ben Ditmars, Type 2

“I screamed but he couldn't hear me over the blast of the gun or the explosions that followed. I wish I had never touched the damn thing. Guns cause more problems than they're worth.”
― Ben Ditmars, The Zeppelin Chronicles

“but is it santa
or jesus looking down
on a scarred
burned
earth?”
― Ben Ditmars, Fragments: Haiku and Verse of Seasons

“there are songs about life, but fewer about death and that is some small consolation as there are many more on love than there are hate.”
― Ben Ditmars, Number Poetry

“Golden brown syrup light pranced upon his melancholy face. The flickering was somewhat surreal.”
― Ben Ditmars, Gnomes of Coyul: The Crystal Staff

“I really don't want to discuss the merits of cabbage with you.”
― Ben Ditmars, Ten Minutes in Heaven

“red light contradicts
blue sky and so much
depends on makeshift branches
set in stone.”
― Ben Ditmars, Mirrored Voices: Emerging Poets Anthology

“Think positive. Think green.”
― Ben Ditmars, Splinters

“I was waiting
For the rapture
And glass
To shatter
In my hair”
― Ben Ditmars, Firebird