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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Awed by her splendor
stars near the lovely
moon cover their own
bright faces
when she
is roundest and lights
earth with her silver
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Keep me from going to sleep too soon
Or if I go to sleep too soon
Come wake me up. Come any hour
Of night. Come whistling up the road.
Stomp on the porch. Bang on the door.
Make me get out of bed and come
And let you in and light a light.
Tell me the northern lights are on
And make me look. Or tell me clouds
Are doing something to the moon
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Just like the stars, love shines
In the depths of our hearts
It warms us in the coldest times
And never truly departs
Some stars may fade away
But their light still lingers on
Just like love, it may stray
But its essence remains strong
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Impossible One Might Think.
tulip's intellectual, spiritual, wisdom-oriented-emotuonal serenelity -voyage from persian to
infinity in respect, love, trust, care for family in time of difficulties.
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It stinks. Man's nature.
I don't know myself. What I think
is the fall of leaves every year.
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One night, when the moon glowed bright,
there were voices from the distance of the Cosmos.
The stars asked of the moon, What are you in the scheme of things?
We are each known by God, and He knows our names.
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Weight force to lift force
Instinctive laminar streams
Flow resistance, drags
...
Such a phenomenon is life;
Miracles happen every day.
Somethings are bold and radical;
Others - subtle in minute ways.
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Locked up inside like a bird in cage
Loving you was my crime
At first it was a gauge
Conscious rewinds the wounds from time to time
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Bless the Lord, O my soul, O my heart
O Lord thou art very great, thou art
clothed with honour and majesty
Thy name is full of integrity
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Happiness is finding four empty seats
Intuition tells you these are the ones
Nevertheless, unconscious guilt conceits
Hope that the rightful owners do not come
...
In a world not quite like ours, where the sky shimmered
with colors yet unnamed
and the ground thrummed
with the pulse of the universe,
...
There's something most intriguing
about the work of a great poet
once he's dead and buried,
maybe it's the simple silence
...
how does the sound of heartbreak sound
when heartbreak is an unendurable intensity?
how does the sound of heartbreak sound
when shredded heart is mortally wounded?
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Corruption knows no boundaries or shame
It blows like the wind in all directions and
Thrives with those with power and influence.
...
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.
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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.
...
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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