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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The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
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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 most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set -
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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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THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling She knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing
Heroically lost, heroically found.
No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound,
Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph
Where the bales and the baskets lay
No common intelligible sound
But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea.'
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The old moon is tarnished
With smoke of the flood,
The dead leaves are varnished
With colour like blood.
A treacherous smiler
With teeth white as milk,
A savage beguiler
In sheathings of silk
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That day, when I knew everything about you,
That you really like the color of green and blue,
You captivate me with your brown eyes,
I couldn't imagine my heart fall for how you are very nice.
Your calm voice echoes in my mind,
Until I realize you are one of the thing that I always find.
When I hold your hand at the dike,
As you tell me that it is your first time to hike.
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Holy Father, heed my words.
Cease this siege.
Else, it shall doom us all.
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A giant stride without Elders
Bottled in wisdom and intellect
Yet firing hot shots banana stems
Quench with sizzling marsh
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I've been awaken in the deafness of the night, strange feeling crept within.
I feel blind, I see nothing,
In the darkness of the night.
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Sunday afternoon we walk hand in hand to the pencil the site of the Viking battle, the path is damp and wet and the shore is full of floating seaweed.
Passing dog walkers, couples old and young alike enjoying the sounds and sights of the Clyde.
Looking across the water towards Millport, island, fresh air filled our lungs as we cycled in the past bikes whirring in the summer heat.
Michael Cochrane ©️ 2026
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LET GO OR NOT,
GIVE UP OR NOT;
ACCEPT SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T ACTUALLY WANT, OR REMAIN UNTO SOMETHING YOU'VE LEARNED TO LOVE.
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इल्म है तो आदमी इंसान है।
इल्म है तो ज़िंदगी आसान है।।
इल्म से हिंदी है, हिंदुस्तान है।
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आंखें हैं अश्क बार, तो दिल में है मेरे ग़म ।
हम भूल कैसे सकते हैं, ज़ालिम का वो सितम।
नफ़रत का ले सहारा, पढ़ते हुए को मारा।
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Anti-Anxiety - 3
Elvis Presley look
Causing quite a stir
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Anxiety - 3
They're looking at me
The shameful wrong way
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The Late Bloomer Baby Boomer - 21
Escaping from the darkness temporarily Lamb searches thru The Light
Lucifer around every corner hauntingly reminding me of my sins
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I Am somebody.
And who is nobody?
As long as live,
I will be somebody.
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Patrick Berg, an Athlete bright,
With a mind for games, a guiding light.
He thinks the tactics, plays so smart,
A football brain, a work of art.
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I dwell
In the absence
You left behind
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If you die before me
I would jump down into your grave
and hug you so innocently
that angels will become jealous.
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Beautiful is the 'thank you'
Wrapped with gratitude,
Offered to peace prone people
Who offer what is real-themselves
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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,
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The low lands call
I am tempted to answer
They are offering me a free dwelling
Without having to conquer
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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
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Love and lust are poles apart.
Lust is chaos, love is art.
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Rappelle-toi Barbara
Il pleuvait sans cesse sur Brest ce jour-là
Et tu marchais souriante
Épanouie ravie ruisselante
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you put this pen
in my hand and you
take the pen from you put this pen
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On this dry prepared path walk heavy feet.
This is not "dinner music." This is a power structure.
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"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:
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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:
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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.
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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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