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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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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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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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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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you've seen a strawberry
that's had a struggle; yet
was, where the fragments met,
a hedgehog or a star-
fish for the multitude
of seeds. What better food
than apple seeds - the fruit
within the fruit - locked in
like counter-curved twin
hazelnuts? Frost that kills
the little rubber-plant -
leaves of kok-sagyyz-stalks, can't
harm the roots; they still grow
in frozen ground. Once where
there was a prickley-pear -
leaf clinging to a barbed wire,
a root shot down to grow
in earth two feet below;
as carrots from mandrakes
or a ram's-horn root some-
times. Victory won't come
to me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
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I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
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When the cold north wind blew
I still gave you hope
soon we will
walk in the cherry blossom grove
You held my hand tightly
and smiled peacefully
Just look
the flower buds are opening
towards the spring sun
and I will sit wordlessly
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I have a special ticket
You can keep in your head
It will take you to another place
There you will be fed
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The night uncrowns the sun and drinks my silent ache;
Its raven cloak is stitched with unremembered cries.
Grief kneels beside my bed—a pilgrim, pale and wakeful—
While the moon salts my wounds with its sacramental eyes.
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The night has learned the language of my pain;
It gathers tears the daylight dares not show.
Yet through the storm I guard love's sacred flame;
Like faithful rivers, hidden mercies flow.
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The world will shake, a rumbling deep,
With angry storms and seas that leap.
Famines will come, and sickness spread,
And nations fight, with fear and dread.
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The last whistle depicts the grievous line
Of the earthly existence,
But it writes the joyous line too
With flying colours,
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The rain smote so hard, so fast
There wasn't time to grunt
I never saw it rain this hard-
Not since I was a runt.
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یەکەم شت
کە ڕقم لێى بۆوە و نووسیم،
دوو پیتى ئاشکراى (خ) و (خ) و
پیتێکى نهێنيى (خ) بوو.
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سەڵتم،
هەمیشە و بۆ هەتاههتايه عاشقم.
خەیاڵم لە شوێنە دوورەکانى واقیعە و
کە بیگەمێ غەم لەوێیە،
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ئەمشەو
سەفەرێک ڕێی پێ گرتم،
تا حیکمەتانە عیشق بکەم.
کە عاشق بووم،
...
تۆ عاشقی،
تۆ پەپوولەی،
هەمیشە دەفڕی و لە خوا تووڕەی.
نازانم بۆچى؟
...
کوفرە
پێم دەڵێیت سەرگوزەشتەى عیشقمان نییە،
درۆیە
بڵێیت دڵم بەر سێڵاوى گریانى شیعرت نەکەوتووە.
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A speech for all, or so I thought,
A report on how our nation's wrought.
Jobs and money, peace and care,
A honest look, beyond compare.
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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
...
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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