Richard L. Ratliff

Quotes

• “Your words on the screen are my color palette I dip my brush into your words and paint youOn the sky, on the ceiling, on...”
• “I guess she was a life line Sewing our family fabric togetherFrom me to dad to herGave me a sense of continuity Especial...”
• “I'd keep your beauty timeless. like a flower pressed in a book, yesI wouldn't let it fade Folded in the chapters of my m...”
• “Coming down life's highwayAt ninety mile an hour I want to slideWith bad brakes and bald tiresInto my final parking spac...”
• “Six guns rattling rattling boom boom boomWords and flags folding, folding, foldedThe knell tolls ding ding ding ding ......”
• “Thankful another tomorrow greetsAs I drink from cup of time And prepare to lock the door behind meand leave it to others”
• “If you build it well, a satisfaction comesAn honor to say I built that with fidelity,Purpose, value and integrity”
• “Time is passing : not leaden steppingBut sprinting on winged feet,Quick silver slipping by.”
• “In the wind that ruffles through the treesI can find thoughts of you whispering to me”
• “Do your thoughts continue and repeat a cycle Seed, growth, bloom, and seed again”
• “When you build a house You nail down memories Paint and stain the fabric of time”
• “Alcohol is good at disinfecting things It can clean a surface or erase memories”
• “Fathers and daughters have a special bond. She is always daddy's little girl.”
• “Each day is always breaking out anew Aspirations swirling round what you do”
• “SnowWhile falling it hides your passageWhen finished it documents your path”
• “Had I known how sweet they wereI would have saved more of these memories”
• “Always enjoyed a smile with dimplesBut time adds wrinkles to the smile”
• “We are philosophers of our timeFloating in the moon's evening glow”
• “Just that sons and fathersAre like mirrors and daughters are soft”
• “Life doesn't revolve around youIt revolves around those you love”
• “I tend the flowers of my mindWatering our memories as they bloom”
• “Save your golden days as time goes byBefore golden years expire”
• “At the morning's PowerPoint It's full of unique bullet points”
• “I'm the cover of a book,Whose pages are still being written”
• “I've sent you roses many times. I've held your hand in mine”
• “As the sun sinksIt casts that silver bridgeAcross the lake”
• “Your laughter : the drugThat cures my emotional infection”
• “Life is the night skyAll the dots of stars are happiness”
• “You read my words and instantly we are both connected”
• “But you are still you I'm still meAnd we are still we”
• “As I think therefore I amAm I more if I think more?”
• “subway stations...passengers who token through life”
• “We learn and grow Always building on what we know”
• “You have been the pillowI lay my weary soul upon”
• “Your kiss swallows meAnd engulfs my very soul”
• “The moon blows kisses to the evening primrose”
• “There is nothing to fearFrom your reflection”
• “Dot dash dotClouds in the skyMorris code”
• “Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring”
• “God is my supermanI tug on his cape:”
• “She is a smile in the dark”