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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The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
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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 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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I examine
my skin
searching for
the pore
with EXIT
over it
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'Come, try your skill, kind gentlemen,
A penny for three tries!'
Some threw and lost, some threw and won
A ten-a-penny prize.
She was a tawny gypsy girl,
A girl of twenty years,
I liked her for the lumps of gold
That jingled from her ears;
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They came to us,
City by city they marched,
Town by town, village by village,
Even the forgotten hamlets
Felt their footsteps.
They came clothed in promises,
Speaking the language of hope,
Painting dreams of euphoria
They never intended to fulfill.
With "peanuts" in their hands,
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I'm that kind of girl,
The one with a hard life,
She doesn't let anyone see,
I'm that kind of girl,
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Have you been stuck in a loop?
You ask yourself how I can escape?
You realise there's no solution.
You are back to the start.
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Coming back from a school visit to a neighboring town,
still dressed like a rascal —
dark glasses on,
face cap turned to the back,
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The ocean has a voice,
A rumble deep and low.
It whispers in the waves,
Then crashes with a blow.
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The clouds roll in, they darken my way,
My troubles loom, they steal my day.
A heavy heart, a worried mind,
These problems chase, they leave me blind.
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You spent a trillion dollars
to create a blade of grass
And you, and you have the nerve
to recoil at the very thought
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My introspection thought it's fine
but it was a delusion of mine
a rather selfless dime
becomes a crime
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Lost in the world of misery and dull-
Zen is the thing you need may seem elucidate and this may seem obscure but this is not what you are here for -
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The children were busy all morning
picking the fruit the man knocked down.
There is a saying —
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Along the Seine the swans glide, by.
Lovers speak with their eyes gazing, holding fingers entwined.
A florist is humming a song as a violinist plays on the ancient cobbled street.
Where moonlight waters gleam and love awakens like a dream.
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The children were busy all morning
picking the African pears he knocked down.
Nze lachaa otogbo odu ya —
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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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