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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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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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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Hedge, that divides the lovely
Garden, and myself from me,
Never in you so fair a rose I see
As she who is my lady,
Loving, sweet and holy:
Who as I stretch my hand to you
Presses it, so softly, too.
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it lay in my palm soft and trembled
as a new bird and i thought about
authority and how it always insisted
on itself, how it was master
of the man, how it measured him, never
was ignored or denied, and how it promised
there would be sweetness if it was obeyed
just like the saints do, like the angels
and i opened the window and held out my
uncupped hand; i swear to god
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Inside everyone, there are shadows,
And also some bright, shining light.
Our eyes show us what we see,
Based on the roads we've traveled.
Our experiences add color to life,
It's a journey that is old but new.
Inside us all, dark and bright things
Move together quietly.
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I've many pages yet to be turned
And each of these pages
I've lived-
so I've earned.
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His face lit up. "How are you, Ben?
I ain't seen you since who knows when! "
Now, I'm not Ben; my name is Kim,
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I find no comfort in elements that are seemingly forever confusing; not holding any presented delight for many saddening foldings: missed capturing peace to relax my worried mind.
I hate those surprises with its to me, threatening endangerment; I sense nothing kind in its approaching but somehow escape it's full grasp: breathing out hard that final gasp.
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The polished veneer looks a bit
Tarnished like the justice she seeks
Nothing so far has told her she
will be rewarded
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It's Christmas Eve and it's early to bed
For every girl and boy.
They're wondering what St Nick will bring
To fill their hearts with joy.
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I slipped into the room waiting
For the silence to appear
To hear silence is strange
A weightless thing
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'Who is the winner? '
The question hovers,
But nobody answers,
Everybody is conscious,
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Suffering is Grace!
Suffering is grace, though hard to face,
I don't ask for it, yet it comes & leaves a trace.
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Much I would not known
Except it be revealed me
Marvelous secrets
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Going to where I ealized her existence, two figures I find conversing.
Her figure of an Aphrodite and her friend Athena, Energizing;
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In the beginning there was light that pierced the night, blazing father of the sky
The sun the only one shining on a world that spun under an all seeing eye
A bright star that does rise in the morning skies from east to west does fly
Born from night's grave us to save in a new dawning sky
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I know you've been in the dark for what
Feels like forever.
You've tried to push it away,
But the thought of it lingers,
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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 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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