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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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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'Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool.
But you yourself may serve to show it,
Every fool is not a poet.'
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Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.
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Is this how I was?
Wrapped with the softest blanket,
Shown the highest quality of affection,
I'm sure this is how I was.
All I remember is being fed,
But suddenly it's been done by me.
I've gradually been strengthened,
Even kisses aren't given anymore.
...
Looking down from the tabletop of winter
The echoes of spring are but a poor whisper
of a hope that is too far away to touch
...
I want to leave it all behind,
and bound forward
with a spring in my step,
let it fade to a foggy mirage,
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It wasn't you;
It was the romance twirling,
Round and round
Inside my head,
...
Mast
A thousand miles away,
Like a memory trimmed in gold,
Encapsulated inside a snowglobe.
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I stood waiting for you at
The crossroad of separation.
Springs, too many, shone in the skies
And the suns kissed the mountains
...
That beautiful azure sky
Beautifies each human soul
And then let the super-dynamics
of creations
...
Is priceless love so rarely to be found?
In soulful union, heaven meets the earth;
By inner peace the spirit is then bound,
As sacred songs give quiet joy their birth.
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Sunny sunny sunnyside
Can make people bedike
Mystery of bird is beautifully hide
In the crimsonian delight
...
I wanna be happy
due to giftology
Everything will be ok
With your anonymity
...
The cuckoo sings
The cuckoo sings
On the top of hills
And on the top of windows
...
Peter Mandelson
Another one bites the dust
Good riddance traitor.
...
A house feels wrong, a shifting dread,
Things move unseen, a book unread
Flies off the shelf, a sudden crash,
A flickering light, a blinding flash.
...
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.
...
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
...
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 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
...
Love and lust are poles apart.
Lust is chaos, love is art.
...
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.
...
"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.
...
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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