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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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 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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Sun and wind and beat of sea,
Great lands stretching endlessly…
Where be bonds to bind the free?
All the world was made for me!
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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
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You may not be able to see me,
but that does not mean I am no longer here.
You may not be able to touch me,
but that does not mean I am gone forever.
The physical world may know me to be dead,
but I am, in truth, very much alive -
more alive, in fact, than I have ever been,
In ways that you do not understand.
You think that I am unaware of how much you miss me,
but know that I miss you even more.
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LORD, I turn to you
For thy Sovereign help
May you be my strength
To squash all my fears.
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Wat ik mis aan het prachtige betoog van de heer G.... is de ernst en de terreur, juist na de 2e Wereldoorlog door de Amerikanen gebezigd. Het eeuwige gezever over onze redders in de nood die inmiddels al zelf 81 jaar aan deze blackmail mem hangen, het is de omgekeerde wereld. De bevrijder werd afbetaald in 1968 en nog 60 jaar later na van de wereld een patatje oorlog met divide and rule mores te hebben gemaakt en de democratie juist daardoor te hebben omgewalst tot een wanstaltelijke globaliserende technocratie. Ze hebben ons tot slaaf gemaakt. Dat dankbare gezeur want zij zijn mede Europeanen, en multinationals laten we de rol van de big industries vooral ook niet goedpraten! Het romantiseren en mensen dingen laten zeggen om hen mooi te maken, mooier dan ze zijn heeft iets naïefs romantisch met zoveel doorgeslagen ellende op de achtergrond. IS gecreëerd door CIA, Al Qaida eveneens met een vleugje ware arabische woede op het misbruik der Amerikanen! Eigenlijk is er juist door de oorlogen een financiële impuls en een wil tot war economy gegeven aan bedrijven en Amerikanen die toch ooit ook onze broeders in directe lijn van afkomst waren. Oorlogen die gekocht worden en gefabriceerd, die schuld draagt het luie geweten wel want we lieten haar gedijen in het oog van een slechter ziend geweten en een verbrokkeling van onzer allen moraal! Een sociaal mens vraagt geen weder-daad, die schenkt zonder wederkeer met warme hand, maar de VS vragen bij alles 3 keer over de top een vergoeding, zoals de Joodse kolonisten proclameren dat het hun recht is voor elke jood 10 Palestijnen te vermoorden mogen! Die smerige agressie en die schuld die de VS zelfs zonder Trump reeds droeg, daarover hoor ik in uw vertoog NADA. Trump noch de VS zijn de bevrijders van welk volk dan ook, zie Iran, het is een doorgeslagen continent dat met een wankele identiteit blijft leunen op een oud complex van war industrie en afpersingspraktijken, het was reeds mercantiel voor Trump, Trump is het abces op de zieke hardleerse huid van een staat die nooit heeft bestaan Amerika! Amerika is nog niet geboren!
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Explosion of gas words in flame
Emotional glass shrapnel of blame
A boiler of anger heated too high
Pressured rancor burning pieces fly
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Making a fool out the brightest
A zombie state out of the wisest
A weakling out of the bravest
You are a weakling
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The nightjar visiting my chambers said,
'I witnessed a woman and groom married,
An unfettering beauty she doubtless was
Easeless the groom lift her form- carried
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O mistaken bards of the Western Isles!
To think that man lives fragmented is wrong,
The world is no heap of concrete and tiles,
To mislead and prove there exists no song
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'With ye, my dear, what tumult dare suppress,
What mountainous valleys journeys disturb?
To what breaking limits the dismal press? '
Loud saith he, as we prepared to curb
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Yonder plays the summer breeze beneath the bridge,
Swirling and curling among the elm trees,
Motions the river that in frenzies seize,
Whose waters the gentle shore grasses please.
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Cascading water falls
Over sheer granite walls
The enfolding row of trees
Sway gently in the breeze
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The road that was not taken
suddenly comes back to my mind,
stirs my soul -
and makes me insane.
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The scraped knees healed, the toy box bare.
A quiet room, a different air.
The laughter faded, soft and low,
Where did the little person go?
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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.
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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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Beautiful is the 'thank you'
Wrapped with gratitude,
Offered to peace prone people
Who offer what is real-themselves
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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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