John J. Geddes > Quotes

“I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance”
― john j geddes

“you’re gone and
your unfinished poem
lies alone
on my desk—
empty of tears,
I only hope
it rains today”
― john j geddes

“only the gentlest hands can brush away tears”
― john j geddes

“I live in a house of secrets, but I’ve unlocked a few rooms for you”
― john j geddes

“a rainy walk through leaves will cure almost anything”
― john j geddes

“deprived of magic, wonder wanes”
― john j geddes

“my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude”
― john j geddes

“night, and the moon a blur above me—I wonder where the world hides you, and if perhaps you still love me”
― john j geddes

“Be careful—my heart is broken—and you could fall in”
― john j geddes

“...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ...”
― John J. Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“Rain, hold me in your glassy arms—cover me in wet kisses”
― john j geddes

“I have only dark, obscure words of love—but it’s these that broke your heart”
― john j geddes

“had almost forgotten the wet brush of your kisses… soft as April snowflakes”
― john j geddes

“my feelings for her—dark and forgotten as a fireplace in summer”
― john j geddes

“children need calm—they’re artists”
― john j geddes

“the Moon, trails the fabric of night behind her, stars glimmering in her wake”
― john j geddes

“...within invisible walls of dreams, we live a life that might have been...”
― john j geddes

“begins
with rain,
dark lines,
and gloom…
and always
ends with you”
― john j geddes

“the story of us is touching, but exists only in dreams”
― john j geddes

“I had almost forgotten you—but my arms kept remembering”
― john j geddes

“summer is in me—clouds and lakes of shadows, rippling under the trees”
― john j geddes

“Kill me if I try to look thirty-five,” Deb moaned. “But, you already look like that—so, what do I do?”
“Kiss me.”
― john j geddes

“I’m mad with loneliness and you’ve been haunting me all day”
― john j geddes

“...glass words for you, Beloved—rain beads from an abacus of pain...”
― john j geddes

“I took you to that windy hill where stars on every side fall away”
― john j geddes

“thinking of us, our struggles and pain, grieves in me a song more dismal than the sparrows’ protest to the morning rain”
― john j geddes

“the same—on this page, or the end of your fingertips—always the same”
― john j geddes

“I get mixed up with the life we led and the life I imagined”
― john j geddes

“Time to leave
and a friendly bough
from a neighbor's tree
leans over the fence
to shake hands with me”
― john j geddes

“you know the way of the wind in the night—all the desolate alleys my soul takes”
― john j geddes