{"quotes":[{"text":"A poetess is not as selfishas you assume.After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride—and spaces—the groom,she knows that as soonas she has penned the poem,it’s yours to consume.So, without giving it a think,she blows on the inkand the letters fly awaylike dandelions on a windy day,landing on hands and lips, on hearts and hips.But more often than not,you can easily spotthem trodden and forgotten,becoming sodden and rotten.Yet, she will continue to makewhat’s others to takebecause selfishness is not the mark of a poetess.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["agonise","agonising","assume","bride","cadence","consume","creative-writing","creativity","dandelion","erase","fly","forgotten","groom","hands","heart","hips","ink","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","letter","letters","lips","mark","marriage","months","novelist","page","paper","pen","pencil","penned","poems-on-writing","poet","poetess","poetry","quote","on-writing","rhyme","rotten","selfish","selfishness","silences","sodden","spaces","think","trodden","windy","word","words","write","writer","writing","written","wrote"],"id":52245,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["blown","dandelion","delirium-trilogy","disperse","lena-haloway","nothingness","thoughts"],"id":182277,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"She closed her eyes and held all her dreams between her fingers like a dandelion and just blew it. She smiled watching it fly through the air, making everything look beautiful around her while a tear rolled down her cheek.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["air","beautiful","dandelion","fly","pain","smile","tear","watch"],"id":187620,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"HYMN OF THE DIVINE DANDELION I am born as the sun, But then turn into the moon, As my blonde hairs turn Grayish-white and fallTo the ground, Only to be buried again, Then to be born again, Into a thousand suns And a thousand Moons. Suzy Kassem.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["age","beautiful-poem","birth","blonde-hair","cycle","dandelion","dandelion-poem","dandelion","death","getting-old","gray-hair","hymn","life","moon","poetry","rebirth","reborn","sun","suzy-kassem","years"],"id":242877,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"HYMN OF THE DIVINE DANDELION I am born as the sun, But then turn into the moon, As my blonde hairs turn Grayish-white and fallTo the ground, Only to be buried again, Then to be born again, Into a thousand suns And a thousand Moons. Suzy Kassem.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["age","beautiful-poem","birth","blonde-hair","cycle","dandelion","dandelion-poem","dandelion","death","getting-old","gray-hair","hymn","life","moon","poetry","rebirth","reborn","sun","suzy-kassem","years"],"id":242877,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Christopher throws dandelion head after dandelion head into his bag. It's getting heavy now and his fingers are stained from the work but there are still so many left to kill. His biggest mistake is giving them names.","author":"Brian Martinez","tags":["dandelion","funny","odd","quirky","weeds"],"id":448351,"author_id":"Brian+Martinez"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}