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.
...
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.
...
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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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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Innocent heart, what has happened to you?
Alas, what is the cure to this pain?
We are interested, and they are displeased,
Oh Lord, what is this affair?
I too possess a tongue-
just ask me what I want to say.
Though there is none present without you,
then oh God, what is this noise about?
I expected faith from those
who do not even know what faith is.
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Australia, my native land,
A stirring whisper in your ear—
'Tis time for you to understand
Your rating now is A1, dear.
You've done some rousing things of late.
That lift you from the simple state
In which you chose to vegetate.
The persons so superior,
Whose patronage no more endures,
...
With someone whose heart is always full of deceit,
Tell me how can I cope?
Smile on my face, love, actually, a deception that comes from the heart,
I have distributed love in one life,
Still, I hear, it was left forever!
What this heart thinks, in meditation and knowledge,
In reality, it can be seen differently,
No matter how much I want to build love
In the world, still it is repeatedly broken.
The love that people find in other people
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A small hill rests on Arafat's wide plain,
Where mercy fell like gentle rain,
They call it the Mount where mercy stays
A quiet witness to ancient days.
...
A valley small, where tents take flight,
White canvas seas beneath the light,
Not gold, not marble, not a throne
Just simple cloth, just sacred stone.
...
No tent tonight, no roof, no wall,
Just open sky above us all,
The ground their bed, the stars their light,
Stripped of comfort, stripped of pride this night.
...
From noon till the sun begins to bow,
We gather on the plain, here and now,
No tents of comfort, no shade, no rest,
Just open skies upon every chest.
...
Between Safa and Marwa
Between two hills where mercy flows,
A mother's footsteps, the story shows
Hajar ran with a desperate breath,
...
In the valley where Prophet Ibrahim once stood,
A cube of black draws hearts as it should
Pilgrims arrive from every shore,
Hearts stripped bare, seeking something more.
...
I sat in the courtyard of the Kaaba in silence,
Yet within me was an ocean of voices.
Every soul circling around it
Seemed to be gathering the broken pieces of their heart.
...
The Lone Ranger of the Desert
The Lion Of The Desert
I have seen it all.
...
We are aware Huggie Bear that u were affiliated with Philly for a while but u left Philadelphia in great haste (no time to waste) during a pleasant dark night... catching a red eye flight; thus disappearing out of our sight
Searching for you with a mighty-might alas seemed pointless because you were gone - lost forever...into a pleasant dark night
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The men working on the ships in the yards, hammer and rivet across the river Clyde.
The ice floats by as pulses beat to the constant machine gun noise.
Men with hard hands, some with love and hate on the knuckles, mould the steel, each breath plumes in the frosty morning.
Men in cloth caps, shaking and sweating, in claustrophobic conditions, create liners for the wealthy to hob nob and waltz across the Atlantic sea to New York.
...
Todos tenemos un momento
En el que nos sumimos en nuestros recuerdos pensamientos
No muchos tienen este sentimiento
Pero si pasan por muchos sufrimientos
...
En la divina parroquia
Se oculta a simple vista
Aquel que se llama así mismo digno de la gracia del señor
Pero solo es otro en la infernal lista
...
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
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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
...
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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