Poems
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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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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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
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Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
Think rather,-- call to thought, if now you grieve a little,
The days when we had rest, O soul, for they were long.
Men loved unkindness then, but lightless in the quarry
I slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;
Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry:
Then it was well with me, in days ere I was born.
Now, and I muse for why and never find the reason,
I pace the earth, and drink the air, and feel the sun.
Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:
Let us endure an hour and see injustice done.
Ay, look: high heaven and earth ail from the prime foundation;
All thoughts to rive the heart are here, and all are vain:
Horror and scorn and hate and fear and indignation--
Oh why did I awake? when shall I sleep again?
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Here I am in the garden laughing
an old woman with heavy breasts
and a nicely mapped face
how did this happen
well that's who I wanted to be
at last a woman
in the old style sitting
stout thighs apart under
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The Initiative, a call to take
A path that's bold, a risk to make
A journey filled with unknown fate
A chance to change, to recreate
The Initiative, a spark of fire
A desire burning higher and higher
To break the chains, to break free
And from the norm, to finally flee
The Initiative, a force within
A strength to fight, a will to win
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When the world feels heavy, sharp, and loud,
And every step is lost in doubt,
I cling to sparks the dark can't take—
A laugh, a song, the daybreak's wake.
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A land once bright, now shadows creep,
A new faith is born, while others sleep.
'MAGA' it's called, a whispered name,
A burning heart, a different flame.
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The flag unfurls, a different creed,
No church of old, but born of need.
MAGA's call, a rising sound,
On shifting sand, a nation bound.
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Lift your eyes to the east—come, behold—
All is radiance; where has darkness fled?
This is the light of the Unknowable, the dawn of Unity,
Hues and shapes and substance—all dissolved here.
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The giant sleeps, a heavy dream,
Of flags and strength, a flowing stream.
But shadows creep, unseen, unheard,
A whispered word, a tilted bird.
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The morning sun, a gentle gold,
Touched the streets where stories unfold.
Alex, a nurse with helping hand,
Fell silent in this promised land.
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A silent shadow, creeping slow,
Hypertension's deadly flow.
No drumbeat warns, no siren cries,
Just hidden danger in disguise.
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Peaceful is the lake,
Fresh and clean the air and grass.
Let me here relax.
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Beneath the willow's drooping green,
Its slender leaves brush the rippling sheen.
Sunlight scatters in golden threads,
Dancing on water where the river spreads.
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I wandered through fields where the tall grasses sway,
Wildflowers whispered of lives slipped away.
The wind carried sighs I could almost know,
Stories of laughter, of sorrow, of woe.
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My gods are not defeated—
they are only quiet,
waiting between two breaths.
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Our lives are like trees that learn to grow,
Not straight or clean, but bending slow,
We lean where changing seasons blow,
We reach for light we barely know,
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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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