Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
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You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
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Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
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Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
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It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
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Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
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The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
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I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.
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I painted her a gushing thing,
With years about a score;
I little thought to find they were
A least a dozen more;
My fancy gave her eyes of blue,
A curly auburn head:
I came to find the blue a green,
The auburn turned to red.
She boxed my ears this morning,
They tingled very much;
I own that I could wish her
A somewhat lighter touch;
And if you ask me how
Her charms might be improved,
I would not have them added to,
But just a few removed!
She has the bear's ethereal grace,
The bland hyaena's laugh,
The footstep of the elephant,
The neck of a giraffe;
I love her still, believe me,
Though my heart its passion hides;
"She's all my fancy painted her,"
But oh! how much besides!
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I love chocolate cake.
And when I was a boy
I loved it even more.
Sometimes we used to have it for tea
and Mum used to say,
'If there's any left over
you can have it to take to school
tomorrow to have at playtime.'
And the next day I would take it to school
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I thought it was all over
I almost found myself behind
I wish time could roll over
But in the end it was a wish cast aside
Hard times to face in these past years
Yet with all my abilities I couldn't face it on my own
Too much interference in my ears
And I nearly fell off my goal
...
Listening the sound of Hu,
I have become Hu myself.
O call me you all 'Hu-Hu, '
Let no one call me by my
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No creo que las personas importantes
han despertado
y dijieron:
'Haré una cosa.' Es falso. Pero
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Fathers …
They are strong
when we need protection.
They are tender
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You were my boo,
The light in my life, That 1 shining star
I failed us…
I broke you…
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Give me all your pain
I can take it
The brunt of its brutal force
For you have so much life to gain
...
Man, in his arrogance, spurns all warning;
He heeds not the heavens' dire call.
Yet, the universe, with intricacy forming,
God wrought, raising mountains tall.
...
ಎರಡನ್ನೊಂದುಗೊಳುವುದೆ ಪ್ರೀತಿ,
ಹತ್ತಿದರೆ ಆರಲು ಗೊತ್ತಿರದ ಬೆಂಕಿ,
ಮುಗಿಲೇರಿದರೆ ಕೆಳಗಿಳಿಯದ ಹಕ್ಕಿ,
ಏಕಮುಖ ಪ್ರವಾಹದಪ್ರತಿಮ ಶಕ್ತಿ.
...
ಎರಡನ್ನೊಂದುಗೊಳುವುದೆ ಪ್ರೀತಿ,
ಹತ್ತಿದರೆ ಆರಲು ಗೊತ್ತಿರದ ಬೆಂಕಿ,
ಮುಗಿಲೇರಿದರೆ ಕೆಳಗಿಳಿಯದ ಹಕ್ಕಿ,
ಏಕಮುಖ ಪ್ರವಾಹದಪ್ರತಿಮ ಶಕ್ತಿ.
...
No more gray to make this place a stone
I create the future that I want to see
Even if I must take this alone
The pale lifeless is not for me
...
Deep in the frost of my solitude
I gather the cold to numb the pain
Laying in the icy waters
Hear the drumming of pouring rain
...
I have seen the face in the constellations
A smile brighter than great Sirius
I bathe in these thoughts without hesitation
She was made of more than just cosmic dust
...
I believe
You are one of them,
Yes, you are definitely one of them
Who have glorified the world
...
I dwell
In the absence
You left behind
...
If you die before me
I would jump down into your grave
and hug you so innocently
that angels will become jealous.
...
Beautiful is the 'thank you'
Wrapped with gratitude,
Offered to peace prone people
Who offer what is real-themselves
...
Indoors by technology, outdoors by speedy transport
I travel the world
Today in Japan, tomorrow in Rome,
Next day by an ancient civilization or in Hawaii or Coast Ivory,
...
The low lands call
I am tempted to answer
They are offering me a free dwelling
Without having to conquer
...
The Peace Warrior Of Mzansi, among heroes - a colossus!
Sun Of The Nation; a rare gift of Providence.
Once, entangled in the web of racist succubus;
Unruffled he declares before High Justice:
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(This is a composition in Pilipino Language the first one I did, the only one, and hope some of the Filipinos will get this funny poem in this site. The poem is updated with English translation)
Noong taong otsenta dekada
...
Love and lust are poles apart.
Lust is chaos, love is art.
...
Rappelle-toi Barbara
Il pleuvait sans cesse sur Brest ce jour-là
Et tu marchais souriante
Épanouie ravie ruisselante
...
you put this pen
in my hand and you
take the pen from you put this pen
...
On this dry prepared path walk heavy feet.
This is not "dinner music." This is a power structure.
...
"Come, pretty birds, present your lays,
And learn to chaunt a goddess praise;
Ye wood-nymphs, let your voices be
Employ'd to serve her deity:
...
If you had the choice of two women to wed,
(Though of course the idea is quite absurd)
And the first from her heels to her dainty head
Was charming in every sense of the word:
...
A little while, a little while,
The weary task is put away,
And I can sing and I can smile,
Alike, while I have holiday.
...
Between us now and here -
Two thrown together
Who are not wont to wear
Life's flushest feather -
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"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see—
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