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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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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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
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Squire Adam had two wives, they say,
Two wives had he, for his delight,
He kissed and clypt them all the day
And clypt and kissed them all the night.
Now Eve like ocean foam was white
And Lilith roses dipped in wine,
But though they were a goodly sight
No lady is so fair as mine.
To Venus some folk tribute pay
And Queen of Beauty she is hight,
And Sainte Marie the world doth sway
In cerule napery bedight.
My wonderment these twain invite,
Their comeliness it is divine,
And yet I say in their despite,
No lady is so fair as mine.
Dame Helen caused a grievous fray,
For love of her brave men did fight,
The eyes of her made sages fey
And put their hearts in woeful plight.
To her no rhymes will I indite,
For her no garlands will I twine,
Though she be made of flowers and light
No lady is so fair as mine.
L'Envoi
Prince Eros, Lord of lovely might,
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Porter Wagoner in a nudie suit
flashes the crowd an embroidered Hi!
He kids around trading jokes with the hee-haw,
then the lights go down and the teardrops start.
The Queens of the Nashville Sound gear up,
nobody’s laughing or chewing now.
Skeeter, frail in a sky blue sheath,
is out of rehab and born again.
Her voice has gone the way of her orchestra.
It’s almost fifty years since the crash
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Your Journey Into Endless Night
Everything is incomplete
Yet it's not all that you perceive
Everyone is changing daily
There is nothing you can leave
Others look as if they've stopped
Into a place of of rest and peace
You don't know what's in their minds
When they are lying in their beds
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From nowhere
A silent traveller appears,
He has no anxiety
Whatsoever,
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I've had more pity parties than I care to remember and even embarrassed to say, those that I can't remember at all
you know? the ones where you feel like having a small glass of wine and it turns into a whole bottle, and maybe even a tipple of rum or your favourite whiskey?
just to finish it off?
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While sleeping,
all in the clouds.
In good ambience,
we have reached.
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Critically entwined,
A system tangled in its own design.
Identifier ought not to be on name alone,
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I need no diary to write my actions right or wrong
since I've imprinted everything in my memory strong
days've gone for sure, I still find a place to mention
you always stay in my heart, and forever play with my emotion
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Searching in all ten directions
Which include up as well as down
Fruitless was our pursuit indeed
Not able to find You anywhere.
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She's singing in Kellys pub, with eyes closed, blind since birth.
The regulars are silent and they listen to the Irish voice that melts the heart.
The Guinness flows through the throats and starts the chatter eddy and weave the Craic as one.
Michael Cochrane ©️ 2026
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Loving you was never easy.
Loving you was harder than I ever imagined.
Loving you felt nothing like anything I had known before.
Loving you was all I had left to hold on to.
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Memory's lightning flash briefly illuminates forgotten traces of the past
The smell of lilacs, a tree shaded yard, forest covered steep cliff rocks where sentinel pines stand guard
A small wooden mining house painted white, father's large rough hand his gentle might
Gathering humming moths in a Mason jar, long hot rides in an old black car
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#BowerOfLatitude
Slow tread beneath the boughs of branching palm,
Where vernal robins tune the laughing air;
The lavender breathes forth a fragrant balm,
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Loving you was never a choice made once,
Then left to gather dust among the years.
It is the quiet promise of each dawn,
The hand I hold through laughter and through tears.
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H - His name is HOPE
O - Our Savior who calls
P - People of the troubled land
E - Enter the Gate of Hope
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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 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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