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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The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
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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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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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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 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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TWO lawyers to their cause so well adhered,
A country justice quite confused appeared,
By them the facts were rendered so obscure
With which the truth remained he was not sure.
At length, completely tired, two straws he sought
Of diff'rent lengths, and to the parties brought.
These in his hand he held:--the plaintiff drew
(So fate decreed) the shortest of the two.
On this the other homeward took his way,
To boast how nicely he had gained the day.
THE bench complained: the magistrate replied
Don't blame I pray--'tis nothing new I've tried;
Courts often judge at hazard in the law,
Without deciding by the longest straw.
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Tell me not, in doctored numbers,
Life is but a name for work!
For the labour that encumbers
Me I wish that I could shirk.
Life is phony! Life is rotten!
And the wealthy have no soul;
Why should you be picking cotton,
Why should I be mining coal?
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Seen it all, heartless betrayal and rejection
Never felt quite this bored, overwhelmed with emotions
I am still red, never seemed to lose my bloom
My roots were plucked off but found their way back home
Who am l?
Brutal, hot summers, and cold winters came and passed
I lost it all, strength is the only thing l grasped
Why is it so cruel, why am l red, still, and not dead
I am a mess deep down but that ain't the case with my head
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Doubt and I am called a sceptic. Every doubt is a clash of the neurons -
A flash and fire breaks out, burns. Doubt is behind every creation, every revolution,
Doubt and the kingdom breaks into pieces,
A new empire that sinks in doubt - All matter of time, during this time Doubt and the Prize as they are announced,
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The Tears My Mother Never Showed
I wonder how many nights
my mother cried in silence,
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A Brilliant Nephew
A nephew so bright, with a wonderful mind,
So thoughtful, so clever, so gentle and kind.
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In Memory
Now walking in your shoes today
I have something I wish to say:
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কাটালের ঘ্রাণে
স্বপ্নের বাগানে
ঘুম নেই আজ রাতে।
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মায়ের কাছে শেখা ভাষা,
আমাদের এই বাংলা ভাষা।
The language we learned from our mother,
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Never give the reins of your life
into the hands of another,
lest they pull you down
and leave you struggling to rise.
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(For my second daughter)
You came after Olivia,
but never afterthought.
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De nieuwe westerse leiders hollen de asiel discours schaamteloos uit om ons te mobiliseren voor hun vette karretjes. Zienderogen met voldoende ervaring en dialectisch bewezen wantoestanden drukt men door op dat onzalige spoor. Men wordt dus zienderogen crimineel in de uitvoer! De democratie moet dus via de US en Israel brug kapot worden gemaakt als deurmat tussen Oost en West en Wij de deurmat bewoners worden voetvolk, slaven van een fooi, om braaf en veilig te blijven is het devies, meelopen en snuiten houden! Politici kijken al lang niet meer in de introspectie spiegel, ze doen alsof ze de dialectische feiten niet kennen zodat ze de fout bewust kunnen herhalen. Dat moraal rekening rijden van mensen die roepen keer terug naar je Woestijn roept zoveel weerstand op en dat is juist precies wat die luchtridders verwachten, het is ze voorgekauwd in modellen dat als je de oorlog met Rusland wilt voorspellen je het volk nog kwader moet maken zodat er straks een sfeer ontstaat dat iemand het zal moeten ontgelden, een land of het hele Oosten wordt tot Zwart schaap gekneed in onze hersenen dat smerige geNLPee is hemeltergend. Maar er komt een dag dat de veroorzakers met mij als Arendtsiaanse luis in hun ooghoogte te maken krijgen en ik ze weer democratisch allen Hanswursten Kan en Mag noemen! Niet voor niets proberen deze me preventief nu al (mond) dood te slaan!
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Civilisation shows its true face when power is close, be it a negative or positive force blood is boiling and the hormones are singing their Bacchanals. Getting an education and growing up with Decent values I discovered with the rising of my age that oft there can be found more social and moral conduct with the big boys heavy criminals than with an officer of law or policeman or bureaucrat. They never get enough, their belly truly full! Every body gets tempted with temptation which feeds idleness and lust! Be it for a better position, money, perspective, drugs or foreplay of porn games!
We all become animals, reptiles without any human brain! And like in wars, the military getting away with rape, theft and abuse protected by Nationalistic law which measures morals with a split tongued snake attitude crawling up their nursing stake or up their moral hypocrites pole. For those in contempt, being tempted or consciously seeking out in a drive for or after any temptation thrill it is all just but more than a little harmless game! There goes your pass and your paper, your morality! These are the first lessons those little ones should be given so they at least have a chance and a choice to jump after temptation or to try and to grow some spines!
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by Emdad Shah
With eyes of kohl and shadows deep
A broken heart she's pledged to keep
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A triangle dies in three directions
The power of zero gains momentum
God picks bones from the graveyard of space
How long can the earth keep an angel
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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 a 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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185
"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see—
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