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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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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The days drag on, each moment multiplies
Within my wounded heart the pain and sadness
Of an unhappy love and, dark, gives rise.
To sleepless dreams, the haunting dreams of madness
But I do not complain - instead, I weep;
Tears bring me solace, comforted they leave me.
My spirit, captive held by grief, a deep.
And bitter rapture finds in them, believe me.
Pass, life! Come, empty phantom, onward fly.
And in the silent void of darkness vanish.
Dear it to me my love's unending anguish;
If as I die I love, pray let me die.
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'Come, try your skill, kind gentlemen,
A penny for three tries!'
Some threw and lost, some threw and won
A ten-a-penny prize.
She was a tawny gypsy girl,
A girl of twenty years,
I liked her for the lumps of gold
That jingled from her ears;
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As twilight whispers secrets to the night,
You turn to me, seeking what feels right.
'Which life holds weight—yours or mine? '
'I choose my own, ' I answer, intertwined.
Yet in that truth, our souls embrace,
Your essence lingers, a lasting trace.
So if you wander, leaving doubt behind,
Remember, it's love that forever binds.
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I sometimes bath quickly, as they say an early bird gets the chunkiest worms, I sometimes go out hungry, just to save little we have, I crave for work so we can be independent, at times I go out for alcohol to dilute my fury for you with madness.
I sometimes wonder what I'd be without you or your desire towards me, without value, you grabbed me till to date, will you love me the same till we turn grey, sometimes I talk a lot but there's things I don't know, as I stare within a sentence, my thoughts are of you
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I am a stranger to the life they introduced me to, a life full of lies, dishonest people, cruel, selfish people and everyone can't understand one another, the language they teach in, food they serve, and beverage caffeinated nor carbonated which they drink daily.
I am a stranger to the world filled with selfish and fraudulent politician, phony role model, not to speak about the mainstream media that is controlled by greedy people and big corporate practicing slavery but hiding it with less salaries.
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Life is like an onion, the more layers you peel, the more your life gets harder. But unconditional love is nourishment, paramount of affection one could desire, only if we could treat love as a deity.
While forfeiting someone doesn't come with pain only but also bequeath some knowledge to the remaining, my forefathers have prevailed eternal, cause discussion of them will forever brought up whenever history is the matter.
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As I thought I was in love, I witnessed my heart being ripped by someone I loved dearly. As she walked away and I remain lonely and miserable, and there I was, feeling void. Left for someone who's richer than I was, used as a bar code, I felt!
Pride crawled into my life as a worm tryna get something to eat, I stood there not knowing that I'm just a property of the world as well as everything in it! I neglected what was mine over subjected things and out of maturity I associated myself with forks who had price tag.
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You're the art of my life written all over me, I once held my future with both hands, unfortunately the same hands signed an inebriety contract, as I saturate in misery and the dead are out of reach.
Phenomenal you may be, I stand on the field surrounded by blossoms, hearing songs of freedom sung by birds, learning to differentiate the scents of fruits, and who am I to dwell on you?
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In the world of imperfect, we found each other, as little as I know, always know that I love you deeply.
You are my universe, but we are verses so far, it may be nothing that others see but it means everything.
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A life where I had to walk barefooted on solid ground no matter the situation, back friend's wannabe invited on everything I celebrate while they should only observe everything on social media and react upon posts since they won't stand for my life's problems.
In a world where everything turns into competitions, where my success is treated as a threat, but our foe is bigger than flesh! In a society where donations are created for wealth than to feed the less fortunate.
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Let's say love is immortal, but always someone gets dumped or betray within love, isn't painful to rely on something that seems to be true while is fable? , tears of love I say!
What if's, doesn't work anymore, you've shown love to a psycho? and that very person acts as a victim while he/she is the perpetrator, a relationship where you'll be blamed to death.
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I lost my comfort zone, I've screwed around and stumbled on the good one, a relationship full of turn on's and the other way around, as I thought I was curing awful habits, not knowing the power of love.
As you strolled barefoot on my heart, your footprint remains forever, your love for me shines than moonlight, happiness always pours like rainy season ever since we met!
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Sonnet I
In Nadia's fields, where emerald mornings lie,
A village woke to bells and birds in tune;
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The love I had for you, made me to do unspeakable things.
Sipping liquor until I fall asleep.
You might never know the feelings I had for you.
I remember back when love was expressed emotionally.
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They say one should work hard for success, but what if I am born to be successful? why would one lack motive for passion, ambitious as I can be, future is unpredictable, while current situations take's all my energy and focus but tomorrow I wanna be active and famous.
Let's say love was never ending, would we be having the same outcome, as the dead would be living and I guess food would be scarce, technology will once rule what we may have, robots posing as humans, what may happen tomorrow or next week may frighten my life.
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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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