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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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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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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Far in the mellow western sky,
Above the restless harbor bar,
A beacon on the coast of night,
Shines out a calm, white evening star;
But your deep eyes, my 'longshore lass,
Are brighter, clearer far.
The glory of the sunset past
Still gleams upon the water there,
But all its splendor cannot match
The wind-blown brightness of your hair;
Not any sea-maid's floating locks
Of gold are half so fair.
The waves are whispering to the sands
With murmurs as of elfin glee;
But your low laughter, 'longshore lass,
Is like a sea-harp's melody,
And the vibrant tones of your tender voice
Are sweeter far to me.
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The plunging limbers over the shattered track
Racketed with their rusty freight,
Stuck out like many crowns of thorns,
And the rusty stakes like sceptres old
To stay the flood of brutish men
Upon our brothers dear.
The wheels lurched over sprawled dead
But pained them not, though their bones crunched,
Their shut mouths made no moan.
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The north wall of our building
Never gets sun.
So it grew moss instead.
Green, stubborn, quiet.
It doesn't ask for permission.
Doesn't care that it's "just a wall"
Behind the water tank.
Rain comes. It gets brighter.
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Alaska Pollock
From ocean blue, a fish so white,
Alaska pollock, a healthy delight.
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من ڕۆژێک دەبم بە هەور/ تێک دەخزێم: گرم گرم...
(با) لە ئاسمان ڕام نەدا،
تا هەڵمێ، دووکەڵێ، خۆڵێ، هەڵپەسێوم و
هەورەبرووسکە دەنگ بدا
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لَوْ ٳِني وَقَعْتُ في حُبِ فَتاةََ حَلَبْجيَّةً
كُلُ يَومِِ في زُقاقِِ مِنْ ٲَزقَةِ هذهِ المَدينَةَ
لأَصّبَحتُ تِمثالاً لَها،
لأَنَّ جَميّعَ جِراحْي أَهلُ حَلَبْجَةَ في قَلبي.
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Anti-Anxiety - 9
I'm now touching that!
Appreciating
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My race embarked as civilization itself began—
without a name,
without a sphere,
with hymns upon our tongues
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The Late Bloomer Baby Boomer - 27
Hesse's writings would profoundly effect my life
Siddharta taught me the art of meditation
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The earth is my eternal floor,
the sky my only roof.
The moon and stars, silent,
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I
I rose from the shackle of nāsūt's frame—
from the noise of wanting,
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I stopped in that breathless moment—
my questions like unopened letters
striking the walls of those inner chambers
where memories forget even their own names.
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I keep diving,
ceaselessly,
into the depths of my own being.
Layer upon layer of sea-darkness,
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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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