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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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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From my window I can see,
Where the sandhills dip,
One far glimpse of open sea.
Just a slender slip
Curving like a crescent moon—
Yet a greater prize
Than the harbour garden-fair
Spread beneath my eyes.
Just below me swings the bay,
Sings a sunny tune,
But my heart is far away
Out beyond the dune;
Clearer far the sea-gulls’ cry
And the breakers’ roar,
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Fit the First
THE LANDING
'Just the place for a Snark!' the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.
'Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the crew.
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Are you leading off the final bend
Are you at the front of every trend
Are you every girl and every boy
Are you melody or just white noise
Are you on the brink of Everest
Do you ever know what you'll do next
Is the sand of time at your command
Have you got the whole world in your hand
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I am not thinking about my present or meditating my past,
I am crying over my future that is of no trust.
If I dare forsee my stand, I would more understand.
That for a present without a past,
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The school comes alive once more as the students return
to work towards fulfilling their goal with a purpose to learn
to choose a career path that makes their dreams come real
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If a convicted heinous criminal cried out
'Is this what I get for defending myself? '
Now imagine the innocent —
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अदालत में सियासत का चलन है।
यही कारण है, मुश्किल में वतन है।
हक़ीक़त को छुपा कर क्या मिलेगा
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She did her best at five years old,
Then somehow made it through six, seven, and eight,
Trying to hold together four siblings
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In the distance
Souls linger across time
Desiring and needing
A season of blooming
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Sky cracks with a flash, so bright,
Then air gets hot, a burning light.
So fast it heats, a fiery streak,
The air can't wait, it has to speak.
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Today, a boy child.
Tomorrow, a teen. An adolescent boy.
Next, a young man.
Then: Dimkpa.
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Since destiny has stored for us both pain and pleasure
as lovers we are let's be willfully ready for it to savour
hand in hand let's walk on the corridor of our dreamland
relishing our love so far it has'en pompous and grand
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I often dive deep into the ocean of my thought
to find pearls to glint on the page that's here I art
since my emotion sizzles with my every brush stroke
with dripping tears that's hazy within the wintry smoke
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AND many by the grave
have stood and wept,
for that one morning
before he died but of late:
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An epitome of love, kindness, care and affection
a strength for her child, she's a source of inspiration
an angel on earth, she has'en a wonderful creation
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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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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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Beautiful is the 'thank you'
Wrapped with gratitude,
Offered to peace prone people
Who offer what is real-themselves
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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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"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see—
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