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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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 tiger, on the other hand,
Is kittenish and mild,
And makes a pretty playfellow
For any little child.
And mothers of large families
(Who claim to common sense)
Will find a tiger well repays
The trouble and expense.
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Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,
Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.
And the eyes of those two Indian ponies
Darken with kindness.
They have come gladly out of the willows
To welcome my friend and me.
We step over the barbed wire into the pasture
Where they have been grazing all day, alone.
They ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their happiness
That we have come.
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In a dream she came:
I still have her picture in my heart's frame.
There was a romantic browed:
She was standing on the cloud
With a rose near the edge of the moon.
Then I dressed the boon;
Sitting on a white gee.
She was smiling at me.
I saw the juice of love in her gaze.
What a glittering face!
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In this modern age, a trend has emerged,
Multiple dating, where hearts are submerged.
Seeking satisfaction, a constant desire,
To feel the high, to set hearts on fire.
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post-conceptual recipe
how many birds are there in this poetry?
one breath mindful awareness.
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In the realm of fearlessness, let us delve deep,
As leaders, laymen, or even as a child's keep,
To banish the shadows that haunt from within,
And unlock the courage that lies beneath our skin.
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To each their journey,
A unique odyssey of the soul,
Where dreams and desires intertwine,
And destinies unfold.
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My beloved, my girl, my Calico swirl~
occulted so well over mountains and swells
My home was in your heart waiting, warm
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In the vast expanse of existence,
Not everything requires our understanding,
Not everything demands our contemplation.
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Your lover should be your best friend
Your soul mate
You other half.
Your lover should love you as much as you love them
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What if your love was only a memory
One that I would only replay in my head again and again just to see it because it 8s like my favorite movie,
What if I was to ever tire of it but I don't think I could, even if I wanted to.
Your love is so extraordinary to me I do believe if you ever stopped loving me I would have to forget I ever loved tou because it will never go away, the memories of your love.
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'I'll end you, ' she teased with grace,
'Go ahead, ' he smiled, his heart in place.
She dreamt of gifts, relics of old,
...
New honesty house
not a meaning but a new bioethical life of spiritual self-confidence, postconceptual-dialogic of organic intelligence into seeing through
impossible possibility world in new-dimensional being in universal humanity in process timelessness.
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Jeong-Bo Lee
Chrysanthemum, why is it that after only
The east wind season's completely passed,
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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,
...
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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