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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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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COME, dear old comrade, you and I
Will steal an hour from days gone by,
The shining days when life was new,
And all was bright with morning dew,
The lusty days of long ago,
When you were Bill and I was Joe.
Your name may flaunt a titled trail
Proud as a cockerel's rainbow tail,
And mine as brief appendix wear
As Tam O'Shanter's luckless mare;
To-day, old friend, remember still
That I am Joe and you are Bill.
You've won the great world's envied prize,
And grand you look in people's eyes,
With H O N. and L L. D.
In big brave letters, fair to see,--
Your fist, old fellow! off they go!--
How are you, Bill? How are you, Joe?
You've worn the judge's ermined robe;
You've taught your name to half the globe;
You've sung mankind a deathless strain;
You've made the dead past live again:
The world may call you what it will,
But you and I are Joe and Bill.
The chaffing young folks stare and say
"See those old buffers, bent and gray,--
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One very rough day on the Pride of the Fray
In the scuppers a poor little cabin-boy lay,
When the Bosun drew nigh with wrath in his eye
And gave him a kick to remember him by,
As he cried with a sneer: “What good are you here?
Go home to your mammy, my bold buccaneer.”
Now the Captain beheld, and his pity upwelled:
With a plug in the peeper the Bosun he felled.
With humility grand he extended his hand
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They ask how I'm doing.
And I say I'm fine.
They ask if I'm okay.
And I say I'm fine.
They see my smile and believe my lie.
They see me laugh and believe my lie.
My Father asks how I'm doing.
And I say I'm fine.
My Father says he hates when I say I'm fine.
But what else do I say?
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The past has left its scars
But scars will never kill you
The flashbacks will repeat
But that's all it can really do
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We are the generation
that learned to swipe before we learned to drive,
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Hello, I welcome you, my friend.
That immoral administration must end.
It is time to calm down, take a breather.
It is time to elect a new political leader.
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The sky wakes up, a gentle light,
Odin stirs, from dreams of night.
A horn is raised, a honeyed gleam,
Mead of poetry, a flowing dream.
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Gelukkig ben ik een wakker mens. Maar al die bedreigingen van accountblocks, de zgn donaties die men me had willen doen en alle prachtige voorstellen die de wereld van de fake techworms ai wormen je aanbieden, hoe moet de Jeugd daar nu weerstand aan geven als die niet zoals bij mij allen in de door me zelf getrainde spambox blijven belanden. Daarnaast bieden de dames zich blijkbaar aan deze antifemicide heer en strijder voor een wereld zonder FGM toch ook nog voortdurend aan! En ook de commercie is crimineel want vrouwelijk naakt en schoons blijft men misbruiken om te verkopen, ik moet de dag nog meemaken dat er een leuke super dikke dame met een lipwrat met haartjes erop aan de receptie of balie komen te zitten, doen die niet zeker zo'n puik werk als die smoeltjes die er zitten en zich daarvoor pseudo natief laten lenen! ? Ik bouw iets op en doe niet mee aan de decadentie van lust en verleiding. Maar hoe verwachten we nu van onze JEUGD dit alles te weerstaan. Kwetsbare sociale mensen worden in deze onzalige al 20 jaar schraapregering die er zelf zeer warm lokaal als landelijk bij zitten extra belast bij de groeiende behoefte juist aan dat onbetaalbare sociale gedrag! Hoe blijven de kids hier weerstand aan kunnen geven, ze komen net kijken en kunnen niet altijd op scherp staan! Een wereld waarin de zorg en sociale sector schreeuwt om erkenning aandacht en geld, al die hypotheekslurpers die ook hoogstandig willen leven hebben niet door dat de achterblijvers er juist door hen extra slecht voor komen te staan! Solidariteit is een woord dat bijna vloeken in de kerk is! Ik hoop dat jullie lieve mensen die allen ooit kinderkens van hoop waren, mee denken en vechten voor die toekomst van onze jeugd ook als die van ons er ietwat somberder uit ziet!
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What pours from the mouth of a poet vomit on a page
Retched innards, guts, a naked heart, boiling blood of rage
Pornographic passion, grief ashen exposed in a bucket of words
A soul exposed in a poem composed that critics call fetid turds
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Everywhere, there is a shadow.
Shadow — everyone.
Who am I speaking to?
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I am a stranger in my own family.
We share blood,
but not understanding.
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You say I'm not enough —
but you are only breath,
a shadow in my bloodstream,
a rumor dressed as death.
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I have a sickness inside my skin,
it waits for night to settle in.
It creeps along when lights grow dim,
and whispers low and cold within.
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I don't know why these tears still fall,
like silent rain against a wall.
I don't know why my chest feels tight,
like something's crushing out the light.
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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
...
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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