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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I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.
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The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In another's being mingle-
Why not I with thine?
See, the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower could be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea; -
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
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Through every nook and every cranny
The wind blew in on poor old Granny
Around her knees, into each ear
(And up nose as well, I fear)
All through the night the wind grew worse
It nearly made the vicar curse
The top had fallen off the steeple
Just missing him (and other people)
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Everything begins with a night, and ends in night;
A realm of fears, a well of tears.
It holds happiness; it bears loneliness.
It weaves struggles; it offers snuggles.
And yet, the most amazing thing of all—
It is the most fearful time of all.
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I do say 'Sorry';
My want of sincerity
Drags me down again.
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The bottle calls, a lonely fight,
Some cling so tight, with all their might.
'My life, ' they say, 'I choose my way, '
But darkness grows with each new day.
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You didn't erase me, you didn't pretend,
You helped me begin… and finally end.
Now I can focus. I show up. I stay.
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मलाई खा कर नेता, जब हो जाता है मोटा,
न रह जाती लिज्ज़त, न इज़्ज़त उस पार्टी में।
बदल जाते हैं उसके अल्फ़ाज़ और लिबास,
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Some people wear pride like a crown,
They turn truth upside down.
They call the wrong the only right,
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Snow on the day you died
I just cried and cried
My grief I could not hide
You would never again be by my side
...
Vax Vax Vax
"We've got your backs"
Lie Lie Lie
Get the Vax and you may die
...
My nights were long, where sleep would rarely stay,
Memories woke and quietly had their say.
Your name became the pillow of my head,
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People like your father kept something up in the chambers rolling, called conscience! Evolution can only evolve if we acknowledge our achievements as a mere gesture derived from nature. When does the human urge for recognition stop, if we look into the eyes of mother nature and her love and abundance will it keep nurturing us or are we at a point in life arriving not realising there is no point of return and even if some do, will we have the courage to step back in recognition of this most abused gift of nature? Only men have that stroke of evil content, nature never destroys out of want or on purpose or planned, it is the resetting of her own balance in which it takes or gives, where is that switch in the mind of mankind! Have we lost it? I shall always try to opt for the Good and the mystical spirit dwelling somewhat lost in our midst. Dear Daan, honour your father as you do and enjoy the otherworldly beauties of oceans and seas!
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Bij de bouw van steden zoals Athena betaalden de elite dat zelf door grond en productbelasting vrijwillig aan het leeuwendeel mee der opbouw. Arbeiders en consumerenden betaalden een deeltje ervan in aankoop producten. Havens deden dat door deel belasting op in en export. Dit allemaal grotendeels vrijwillig, draagkracht of vermogen was een kwestie van reputatie en eer! De wereld op zijn kop zou je zeggen! Nee, men wilde geen gezicht verliezen en de elite was ook werkelijk vaak inhoudelijk van het hoogste niveau. Nu kan elke Hansworst de politiek in om zijn CV op te leuken of haar 2e hypotheek te bekostigen of een kind stuur Harvard allure te verwezenlijken. Dus ter status en meerdere glorie van naam en liefst ook portemonnee! Hoe anders was het destijds, de overheden maakten zichzelf bescheiden en overbodig als men zag dat demos zichzelf wilde en kon dragen. Die oprechte kleinschaligheid van de eerste echte grootsteden zou ons weer ten voorbeeld kunnen dienen. Hier is het omgekeerd de perversie begint juist zoals bij elke decadentie met het zichzelf nog belangrijker maken Juist daar waar men het meeste al aan het volk over Kon laten!
Een soort van vetzucht en walgelijke honger naar meer daar waar het reeds schuimt van weelde. En dat moet ons besturen en ten voorbeeld strekken. Omtzichtjes zijn uitzonderingen, die droegen de inhoud ook werkelijk en werkten zich tot berstens toe, de kleine details niet versmadend! De overheid is een vette boef aan het worden lui en gezapig in het kielzog der grote jongens meezeulend daar begint het volksverraad en het mandaat van het kwaad wortel te schieten. Openbaarheid blijkt de grootste counterindustrieleugen ooit! Adviesbureaus leuken de statistieken pr en praatje op ten bate van Koning Leugen! Belastingdiensten wijzen terug naar het overheids mandaat, beleid, klokkenluiders worden misselijkmakend regime achtig gesmoord of omgekocht of omhoog gepromoveerd uit beeld!
Daar waar het room schuimt gaat men afromen dus bezuinigingen in tijden van weelde is GRAAIEN. Het heeft niets met bestuur te maken of met een eed het volk te dienen naar eer en geweten, het feit dat men die af moet leggen is een intro in de club der beëdigde valsspelers en leugenaars! Pensioenfondsen die spionnen en hun tech financieren die mee kopen en inkopen in de wapenindustrie en speculeren (zoals helaas vele domoor burgers) en daarmee van het eerlijke verdienmodel een graai en gokkast meeloopmodel hebben gemaakt. Meelopen over de kinderkopjes uit Gaza, Uyguristan, Yezidikamp Hollandia en et cetera! We willen niet achterblijven en volgen de spelers die lijken te winnen. Niets meer met moraal of gezichtsverlies van doen want iedereen doet het toch! Het brein slaapt want een brein zonder moraal of geweten heeft geen oprecht verhaal, wordt lui, reptielachtig en zuchtig! Afhankelijk van prikkels van derden! De tumor van het opportunisme doet het reptielenbrein dat nog Darwinistisch als residu ergens in de bovenkamers was verstopt, groeien! Als alles zo plat en benoemd wordt ben je dom als je niet meesmuilt van de ranzige room van wereldtaart. Dat is de modus vivendi!
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I dwell
In the absence
You left behind
...
If you die before me
I would jump down into your grave
and hug you so innocently
that angels will become jealous.
...
Beautiful is the 'thank you'
Wrapped with gratitude,
Offered to peace prone people
Who offer what is real-themselves
...
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,
...
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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