If a picture can paint a thousand words.

A picture can paint a thousand words but at times few words can paint a picture, draw a vivid image, capture a feeling, make us giggle; create a good feeling or a feeling of a looming doom.

For awhile now I have been collecting those one line wonders and here are few of my favorites;

If tomorrow never comes

Summer faded into fall

I stumble amid the words

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. Rainer Maria Rilke

So many years in one yesterday - Carla Phelps Wert

He was a missing person who no one missed at all

All things on earth point home in old October - Thomas Wolfe

Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Like a ship trying to sail on yesterday’s wind’

For forever you need once upon a time

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

If we have any sense of who we are it is because we live inside the eyes of others – Paul Auster

So we live, and are always taking leave - Rainer Maria Rilke

Writing is power, as a writer one can make the world stop and pay attention

I can hear the truck tires coming up the gravel road – Rascal Flatts

Perhaps only migrating birds know–Suspended between earth and sky–The heartache of two homelands.—Leah Goldberg, 1970