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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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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The days drag on, each moment multiplies
Within my wounded heart the pain and sadness
Of an unhappy love and, dark, gives rise.
To sleepless dreams, the haunting dreams of madness
But I do not complain - instead, I weep;
Tears bring me solace, comforted they leave me.
My spirit, captive held by grief, a deep.
And bitter rapture finds in them, believe me.
Pass, life! Come, empty phantom, onward fly.
And in the silent void of darkness vanish.
Dear it to me my love's unending anguish;
If as I die I love, pray let me die.
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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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As twilight whispers secrets to the night,
You turn to me, seeking what feels right.
'Which life holds weight—yours or mine? '
'I choose my own, ' I answer, intertwined.
Yet in that truth, our souls embrace,
Your essence lingers, a lasting trace.
So if you wander, leaving doubt behind,
Remember, it's love that forever binds.
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Precocious as I thought, there you are! rushing to your destination, with a speed of 150 on a road full of potholes also curved, as you were trying to give me advice about relationships and I wasn't the one who's afraid not to be loved!
Christianity as you think you are, claiming to be holy while you'll burn twice in hell, they haven't taught you about love than to be ignorant to oneself, without hate, you're living a hideously life, yet you expect people to be more like you?
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Excitement of love, I really can't fight the feelings I have of you. When it's about you, words become meaningless and I eventually get lost in a daydream, where future is ours.
You're the keep going to a man who was about to give up but because of you, I think about future and never lose focus, you're the joy in my little heaven and mostly the angle.
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A black child introduced to a foreign religion, which conflicts with African cultures, white men had drifted through oceans to Africa just to conquer the continent with Christianity!
Let's say heaven exist, will I go there or have you earned your way to heaven, and why would I live in hell while I'm alive and work my way to heaven, merely to go there when I'm no more!
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Exile of self-consciousness, while am too scared to expose myself, I take a vacation to elevate my love for you, as it came as a surprise and I thought love at first sight only happens in Hollywood.
With my bigger dreams, my house will not be a home without you, where I'll see someone more important than me, not in a rush but I reminisce about the day we met as if it was yesterday.
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The world revolves, as they say!
While money only works for the rich
It feels like a count down
Only one way in the morning
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Love is overrated, my peers been pealing onions from day one, there's no enliven but full of disrespect, lying, using one another, while they are ageing only to graduate as manipulators.
I'm really not good at love nor at being single, such addictive fantasy which I can't unlearn, let alone many had died in the name of love, and others are victims facing mental disorders, thus my anxiety just kicked in!
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Here, we're at it again as always, having sexual intercourse without permission, forcing ourselves to them ladies, just to squander sweat and semen, I tried to trade places in the tragedy I couldn't picture being grabbed by force, for a minute there was no hope for life.
Only if we learn to understand no, coming from a woman, another girl was found murdered, just because she fought back when a brother undressed her, a tragedy over immoral sex!
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Everything has its own time. I had to misbehave, just to learn rules of life. I had to sleep broke, then I ended up learning the value of money. I had to sleep drank, to learn how important it is to be sober.
Life offered me many unspeakable habits and temptation, but my heart grabbed everything which was available. Thoughts are more dangerous as committing a crime, as they give birth to infiltrating tangible cruelty.
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I know one day I'll escape in this world, and death will prove itself as the greatest defeat again. And those who really care about me, will be having to live life without me but those who didn't knew me well would be miserable, wanting to know how I was and everything about me. The truth is that I'd be happy for leaving this earthly hell.
Imagine me, leaving my best buddies, my close relatives, my favourite things and as well as my happiness. I've spent years trying to maintain everything and I'll be leaving them forever, meaning I wasted time creating all this for nothing.
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Before birth, everyone wishes the best for the unborn but there's nothing good out here, only wealthless dreams and end with youth dying young, dreams went to casket before they turned into reality.
Boy meets girl and everyone turns into cheaters, and hearts be hurt in exchange. The boy seems to know much and won't take advice from his parents, but he only knows about shady life and inexperienced told or heard stories from unsuccessful people. And the youth think's they can handle substance abuse, but they turned into addicts.
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Sweet at first but sometimes too much sugar is bad for your smile, a time together has inspired a lot of poems. Moving in the same circles but it seems as we're going far!
I see the joy in your eyes but I believe you see love in mine, what's for me it's for us. It has never been hard loving you, plus the love you showed me scares my heart and left it with guilt
We never disagreed, I don't see that anytime soon, the deeper the love the more the pain but this love is deeper than pain. Sometimes love doesn't have to contain up and downs but unconditional love.
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It ain't about love
But I'd love to be accountable for short stories
Or to be an author of a novel
Is another dream while I'm chasing another
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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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