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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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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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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A time will come for a moment of truth
A journey of discovery that starts in youth
Many will try to change your ways
But the thing you love always stays
Finding your mark is a powerful thing
The skies the limit to what it could bring
Our true calling whispering in quiet
Telling us to go after it and we can't deny it
Searching for meaning to rest our soul
Being honest with ourselves to make us whole
The finer things are not part of the mission
Staying true to our passions is part of our commission
Facing each day with the happiness that it brings
Touching the hearts of others makes it everything
We bare our soul on a world stage
Expressing our naked visions outside the cage
It's easy to conform to the flock
But you can set yourself free if you knock
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There is heard a hymn when the panes are dim,
And never before or again,
When the nights are strong with a darkness long,
And the dark is alive with rain.
Never we know but in sleet and in snow,
The place where the great fires are,
That the midst of the earth is a raging mirth
And the heart of the earth a star.
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The way your heart fills
for me
The way my heart beats
for you
And at the end
When we meet
the heaven comes to the shore of earth
We get the comfort
out of everyone
Our lives entail a story of our
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Tiny crawlers, old and deep,
A secret history they keep.
One hundred thirty million years,
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Winter sleeps, a frosty gray,
Each slow day, a longer way.
My heart sighs, for spring's sweet grace,
Sunlight warm, upon my face.
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Dear Judge Frank Caprio,
You touched the hearts of millions.
Your birth was like the rising of a morning star
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A cracked soul bleeds in silence.
Its edges jagged, raw, flaking with every thought.
It clings to nothingness, the air around it heavy and cold.
Even nothing resists its weight, pressing in, suffocating,
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There is a space where nothing happens,
yet everything continues.
No words are exchanged, no choices announced,
only time moving forward without asking.
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You don't let go all at once.
You let distance do the work for you.
Silence becomes the decision you never made out loud.
Not reaching out turns into a habit,
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As I closed my eyes that night,
I took a voyage through the sea.
He showed me worlds we've yet to know,
He showed me things still yet to be.
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Hu—
the breath before meaning,
the sound that rises from the heart
before the tongue learns speech.
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Bare branch, cold and gray,
Tiny birds in a row today.
Little feet feel the winter bite,
Still, they chirp in the morning light.
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Life & Times Upon The Canvas
--FreeBird 02
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Does a stroke to the right
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Do not go where words are mean,
Where teasing hurts and jokes are rude;
Such places slowly teach the heart
To lose its warmth and forget what's good.
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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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