nectar nuggets

quick bites designed to entice

26 January 2025

Hope

"Cut a corner, make it diagonal—open yourself to injury, criticism, and someone's total and enduring devotion."
26 January 2025

I Follow You!

"Your presence is essential to me—you are essential for my soul"
26 January 2025

Sleep Walking

"Draped in a waking dream, not knowing what is real or unreal"
26 January 2025

Your Ear

"It has a beauty that is intimately linked to its function"
26 January 2025

Christmas

"Christmas is a feeling, an emotion—not religious, not political, not sectarian"
26 January 2025

Tomorrow

"I fell in love with the future, not realizing today was its guidance"
12 January 2025

Passionately Looking for You / A Harrowing Journey to Breathe

"I look up expecting glowing gates. I see a glowing smile."
11 January 2025

Details, Shmetales

"I don't pay attention to details—but I noticed the curve of your left ear, the graceful waterfall of your hair, the Christmas ribbon your smile gifts me."
10 January 2025

You Too

"Intelligence—a birthright. Smarts—a learned application of intelligence."
09 January 2025

Pillow Witness

"Sleeping, a smile on your lips, a shimmer on your eyelids, calmness in your repose."
08 January 2025

Tonight’s Closing Thought

"It's not your natural beauty that inspires."
08 January 2025

Beauty Sets Us Free

"We need, desire, desperately, require a life of beauty."
06 January 2025

What the Hamster Thought

"I fell in love with the future—not realizing today was its guidance and yesterday its vague thought."
05 January 2025

Have a Beautiful Sunday

"Don't live for nothing. Don't die useless. Die with accomplishment. Live with a Muse at your side."
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The "Nectar Nuggets" page features maxims of David's poems. The maxims are organized in batches from David's most recent poems at the front to his earliest submissions at the back. You can use the page number and date buttons below the boxed content to navigate. Recommended for use when browsing. You can also locate maxims for David's poems by visiting the Poetry Blog, selecting a poem and clicking on the "Maxims" tab. Recommended for use when reviewing specific poems.