A trusting heart will follow, only those who truly follow their heart.
Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.
It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.
The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.
A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.
Hope is like a word made with cloud, without faith, it quickly blows away.
Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.
When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can’t fly, so I stopped flying.
We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.
Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to take your life, and those things we do gain can never be taken to our grave.
A colorful body with fabrics, tattoos and jewelry is attractive, but a colorful heart with love, truth and faith is beautiful.
To save face, it’s better not to ask sex from the ex, but to give everything the axe.
The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.
There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all over you.
With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer.
Let the night take you. Let the stars evaporate into your dreams. Let sleep be the only comfort for you to believe.
Life is like the dirt we bury our dreams and fears in. It blemishes the way. As things tend to grow by the rain of our belief or doubts.
Don’t pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure.
The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chains you break.
She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches she waits she learns, and in the second she blinks, she changes her mind just like that.
Don’t be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.
The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside.
A rose, isn’t quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you.
Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our timing was off, and she hid her pain as stars in clouds. If I had the chance, I would have saved her from all the truths and lies.
It’s not the appearance that makes a man, it’s the man that makes an appearance.
Sometimes it’s hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.
Without the sun, there is no shadow; without the Son, there is only shadow.
Closed mouths, only lead to closed gates. Share your salvation!
To be the salt, you also need to be the shaker. To shake the world. Shake the truth. Shake the people. Shake the word. Have it sprinkle, melt and preserve humanity.
I see you better in music, I hear you better in wind, I feel you more in a flooding moonlight, that understands nothing, but darkness and silence.
Suicide is a hasty unresolved death that slowly kills those close-by day by day.
A tormented mind wants to forget, what a broken heart will always remember.
We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces.
Love has no fear, willing to take on anyone. But how much we fear love!
Down the road of hate, at every busted corner lurks the need for love.
For some soldiers, there is a greater war going on behind the gun’s shadow of family and friends, than in front of the gun pointing at strange enemies.
The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time, to brushstrokes too fast, wet went dry and love went dull; now I live in a portrait I never painted.
You will be remembered more for your bangs in life, than the bling.
I know an alcoholic is the worse, but sometimes I wonder if it’s better to have a drinking father that lives at home, or a drinking father, that never comes around.
Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.
I can have patience for anything, but it’s waiting for love, that kills me a little each day.
Sometimes it’s better for a struggling writer to stay single, than to keep hearing, “Oh, your a writer, and you need to spend time in writing? Then go marry your writing!
As troubles bring money, money in turn can also bring troubles.
Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.
When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.
They say money is the rude of all evil, however I know poor people that can quite fit the bill.
The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.
When eyes have died in its gaze, know the heart had died in its blaze.
She says: …love is really all that matters. He hears: …really love to do it on the mattress.
The closest thing to Heaven, is having a peaceful mind, and a beautiful, pure heart.
They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart.
Love is about as strong, as two people want to make it.
One day, your beauty will manifest in someone’s eye.
The papers say we’re married, but it’s the heart that writes the love story.
Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.
At the bottom of the mountain you have your scoffers and doubters, by midpoint you have your envious and haters, and when you reach to the top you have new friends and family you never met or thought existed.
I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald.
All she wanted was a family, all he wanted was fame; as their relationship famished.
When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.
Be open in everything with your partner, because where there is secrecy, it can mistakenly come off as being sneaky; where you just may be innocently quiet.
Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?
The heart fools the mind, where eyes went deaf to words, that fell on blinded ears to easy to fall in love.
If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack,as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, empty of a soul.
God is the light bulb, to where faith is the light switch.
People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it’s those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.
Go to God with your coal, and He will set them to blazing fire.
The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.
We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.
Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!
Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun.
Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.
The truth is we’re all dying, the lie is we’re all living.
They have their opinions, but we have the answers.
Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.
If a man brags about his sex life he’s a stud, but if a woman brags about her sex life she’s a slut.
Most people give up finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate.
Sex swims in marriage, while sex sinks in sin of being single.
A smile will go the mile, while a frown will take you down.
Children don’t understand, when things aren’t given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table.
Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It’s better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer.
These days, it’s better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim.
Two people pass each other. As one looks upon the other’s skin color, the other is looking back at their appearance. Both justifying, how better and righteous they are, in their own insecurities.
A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.
We are soon approaching a refined holiday, “Merry Mas,” where Christ will be taken out of its context.
The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?
As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal?
You may not be able to change the world for the better, but the world is able to change you for the worst, don’t give them the rock you stand on.
Find strength in your heartbeat, than weakness with a beat heart. Take each breath as another chance, and love for a new day.
Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.
Unconditional love, is love, regardless anything; attainable or impossible.
Fear Only Constraints Undeveloped Strength where your eyes look to within, is what your heart will believe.
If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.
If coffee were like dreams, then I would be wired in constant bliss, never needing sleep to live out my dreams.
Rather blessings, after counting my misfortunes, I realized how the more blessed I am.
We watch the sky, we watch it alive and we watch it die, looking for signs. We live like wind, with hope in wings that we will get there, never sooner or never later, but at a right time.
Don’t let someone keep putting out the flame God keeps re-lighting, we all have a purpose. As a wing to a bird. As wind that goes the destiny over the sea.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it’s the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
Nothing is in the middle of somewhere, surrounded by everything, where everyone is someplace, and still lacking the someone, I need most.
To express open creativity, you first need to create your own space of seclusion.
Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It’s the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.
People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.
For us to change history, we first need to change the future.
One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.
Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays.
Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast as a breath; inhale exhale.
The future is now! Don’t make that second pass you into regrets.
The past, has been erased; the present, forgiven; and the future, redeemed.
We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.
Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.
Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn’t always a mouthful of words.
Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.
A tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful.
I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.
Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it’s letting in loved ones that are reaching out, when light will begin to shine.
Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.
A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.
As a lie can be buried, the truth will always bloom.
The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.
At the end of every light, is a tunnel of darkness.
In the end, people will not be judged by the darkness they lived in, but by the light they rejected.
As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.As a man, I run away from the light, afraid to show the monsters within.
Don’t make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life’s battles.
Faith is, believing there is still a star out there to wish on, just for you, tucked away behind dark clouds.
Unto the Cross came death, and unto death came the Cross.
Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.
The best way to handle life, is to put your life in God’s hands.
It’s not how many friends you can count, it’s how many of those you can count on.
I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside.
Sometimes I wonder, that one missing sock after doing laundry, is the smart one. After being unhappy for so long, it finally walks away from a frayed, worn-out relationship.
I just wanted to tell you, how beautiful you were; that day, that night, that life.
She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she’ll come to realize it.
It’s useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same.
People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.
All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand on, which is your love.
Don’t try to be the missing key in my life, and I won’t be the unmatched lock, that doesn’t let you in.
A circle of friends, doesn’t always keep perfect relationships.
You can’t lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person’s mistakes.
A cynical modification of letting go doesn’t bring forgiveness, it’s when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go.
Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.
Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.
They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.
I guess it’s better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.
They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold.
Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny’s blissful swing.
As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives.
Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools!
It all starts with you, and that which never starts, also finishes with you.
People usually will remember people most, for the stupid things they did, than the impressionable ones. This somehow strangely, makes them feel better.
Regrets never sit well, with those that never forget.
Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit!
Don’t look at the present storm, but look to the Son coming.
Strange, how the name Israel, God’s own chosen nation, who don’t believe Jesus to be the Messiah, sounds almost the same as saying “is He real?
No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad.
With thousands of roads before us that lead nowhere, going in circles. There really are only two roads we will either travel, one going to heaven, or the other to hell.
So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them.
Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.
My brain as the engine, with thoughts trailing to the caboose, on a one-track mind we keep going forward.
A mind is not weighed by its magnitude, but by the dimensions of its thoughts.
The flesh covers the bones, and makes the spirit naked.
I heard death had a name, but I forgot what it was.
When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music is therapy.
A dream is just as good, and will go as far as an action.
Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success.
If you can’t please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.
Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it.
The only one that believes in you, is you. Don’t lean on how others see you to find belief in yourself.
There’s not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else’s arms.
Confidence, is like a belt worn around the waist. Wear it too tight, you come off cocky and arrogant, wear it too loose, you come off timid and a walk over, but wear it fit and snug, it will uphold you in every step of the way.
With all these forks in the roads of our path, why do so many choose to take the knife?
Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
Nothing won’t change, until the choice is placed first. And until when choice is given a chance.
Love, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it’s like a bullet that ricochets off time’s walls of desire, waiting to hit that picture perfect heart of regrets.
You know you love something if you’re willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying.
Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.
Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes.
The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.
Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.
What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.
It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door.
It seems it doesn’t pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil.
May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.
There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don’t understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced.
With making changes, the difficult part of trying to implement a new way, idea or thought, is getting people to believe the effect of your notion, and have them believe in themselves of adapting to something new.
If you’re still believing, then you’re almost there!
Take caution of what lies, in what you may beLIEve.
We can’t control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances.
Some ride the bullet to vent, while some shoot the bullet to revenge.
Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.
Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings.
When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me?
Distance can make a love fade, while closeness can make hate flare; as distance can make hate fade, while closeness can make love flare.
Hate will only eat the truth, then spit out a lie.
My love, my love, is a flame in the dark covered in glass. So glowingly beautiful to others on the outside, while slowly suffocating inside.
Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.
If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.
The only fear that builds character, is the fear of God.
When you put fear behind the wheel, you’re bound to crash, but when you drive in faith the ride will be rough, but preceding into a journey of your lifetime.
We tell the dead to rest in peace, when we should worry about the living to live in peace.
If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.
If karma doesn’t catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.
We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.
I’d rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones.
People need to stand up for their wrongs, as they stand up for their rights.
It’s better to find success through God, than finding it on one’s own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it’s with gratitude.
Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is still at the bottom.
Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.
There are people that will settle for nothing, people that will fight for something, and those that are fooled striving to have everything.
It’s not love at first sight, it’s having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty.
People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.
The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.
God always knows our conscious, if it’s bad He will stricken it, if it’s good He will keep it clear, if you have no conscious then you’re dead to God.
If you’re not content with the small things, then you won’t be content with the big things.
The only depth where I can breathe, and don’t need to fight for air, is in your love.
When it’s all said and done, I hope to die with a smile on my face.
Who said death is dead? He’s fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better off place.
The Judgement is not a question, it’s a sure answer, as to a clump of dough, that will yeast and rise, or go in the oven and burn to crust.
If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.
They say, timing is everything. But then they say, there is never a perfect time for anything.
Life happens, whether you’re in it or not, but death doesn’t give you a choice.
If you choose to walk through the fire, why do you complain it’s hot?
When you fight with God, your warring against your pride.
Love can either be your greatest companion or your worst enemy, depending on your pride to accept or deny things.
Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life?
The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won’t get any better than this.
The problem is, first take your eyes off the problem and focus on a solution.
Ever notice the word ‘rough’ in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are still able to get through it.
There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.
Sometimes you need to go through many small doors, to get to that big door of opportunity.
I wish I had more breaks in life, rather than life breaking me.
If God give you strength and courage, don’t use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather use your gift to help others find their own way to strength.
I don’t know what’s worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.
Fear, is a horrible place to live in, and much worse die in.
There is always time to die, but never time to live.
True love takes time to find, but once it’s found, the rest is eternal.
I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world.
Why is it people will complain, when they have an open door, where they can walk out to and gaze the stars; rather than having a closed door to lock them in?
Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.
I tend to think my eye’s vision is still 20/20, because they mind their own business.
When a blind man says, ‘God is good,’ this should be an eye-opener to those who can see.
A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart.
A good teacher is one, that never stops listening; a good listener is one, that never stops teaching.
God is like a mirror, consistent, stable, unchanging; reflecting His image of us, that is always changing.
Death takes in many people, but still lives alone.
The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone.
God doesn’t stop crisis from coming, as He didn’t stop Christ from coming. Things have their reasons for happening, we need not to faint, but rather have faith that we are never alone.
People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and what.
There are those laughing their way to hell; and those, crying themselves to heaven.
Taking a life, is not worth getting life in prison.
I dreamed of dying, long before my dreams have died.
Not only are you what you eat, but you also can be what’s eating you. Don’t become your problems or let them overtake you.
In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is “in black and white,” until later their true colors come out.
Trying to change someone, and their views, is like throwing paper into a fire.
Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with the bad, and still feeding on empty.
All these pricks gathering around her body, trying to reach and pierce her rose.
Some people will still find a way to create a fire with wet logs.
The greatest war every fought, and are still fighting, where more people have been defeated and died, is the war within.
After the fire died down, what remained were two charred hearts, that once beat as one.
People have their purposes and reasons, I just wish I found mine.
Rather than you smoking a cigarette, the cigarette is really smoking you.
It’s the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.
Money can’t buy love, but money can reprove one’s care, especially when there is little to give in its efforts to help.
This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears.
What is salvation without faith? is likea Christmas tree without a star, is likea kingdom without a king, is likea heart without a beat, is likea light switch that just won’t turn on.
The brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived.
Today, a couple with ‘just married’ tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previouslydied in a car accident.
It’s not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh.
God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it’s in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.
A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.
Who ever thought to put the word “hero” in heroin?
The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.
Umbrellas raining upon me, as these cloudy tears give me shelter.
For your every tear, know that I’ll always be here. To bare one pain we both will share, know I’ll never disappear.
ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.
When a fat person goes in the water naked, would it still be called skinny-dipping?
Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you.
Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.
The Sun can be your greatest gloom, or your greatest comforter, depending on how you view its shine.
I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.
It’s not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it’s what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.
Fool me once, shame on youfool me twice, shame on mefool me thrice, I’m gonna get the frying pan!
Money, is just paper that will burn with the judgement, but a mindset for the truth, is like a fountain of waters that will carry them through.
It is better to tell the truth and face the punishment, than to lie and face the consequences.
The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.
Sometimes we need to see the bad side, to appreciate the good side.
As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.
Worrying is like a dominoes effect, that rolls from one day into the next, into a week, a month, a year;never accomplishing anything but stress, until it hits that last tile, which drops unfulfilled to an empty ground.
It is better to die, than dive heart-first, into a pool of love, only knee-high deep.
Many people are trying hard to be invincible, and most of the time they fail invisible, while few find their spotlight. But the remarkable person is one, who can be both invincible and invisible at the same time.
It is better to have ten skeletons in your closet, than walk with no bones.
Those that care for their career, more than their relationship, can find themselves alone.
Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.
If nothing lasts forever, then I am forever nothing.
The fears we keep alive, will be a recurring haunt until it dies, or we do.
Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.
If love breaks more than a heart, maybe it’s a sign and time to step out.
The most critical risk of all, is not taking the risk if means be dangerous.
We win some, we lose some, but there is always some.
Death is like that, it blinks, we blink; not always able to see the Stop signs, hiding behind trees in the corner of the roads.
We can’t rewind the past, nor fast-forward the future, so today, all we can do is play, record, pause and keep moving, until something should press the stop button.
Zero is the number people often feel, more so than one.
The best way to stay safe is, let them think your insane.
If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can’t afford to buy into it.
Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!
A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes.