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.
...
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.
...
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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I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen;
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut
And 'Thou shalt not,' writ over the door;
So I turned to the Garden of Love
That so many sweet flowers bore.
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tombstones where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
...
I take my wine jug out among the flowers
to drink alone, without friends.
I raise my cup to entice the moon.
That, and my shadow, makes us three.
But the moon doesn't drink,
and my shadow silently follows.
I will travel with moon and shadow,
...
Relapse inside a suburban villa
Asbestos foxes adorn the eyes
Spellbound inside fetish-wear
Ego bliss at the orifice
The heart betrays the Banshee
Disillusioned it with flying buttresses
Which leads the creature to train of thoughts
Such as:
...
Can't find my pen...
Today's so gone
In yesterday's
Forgotten words
...
Do you know the reason?
It is hidden
In the mysterious region
Of the great sphere,
...
Monday morning, January 20, 2025, begun at 7: 58 a.m. and published at 8: 33 a.m.
The older one gets,
the larger the universe
...
চল্লিশ বছর বাইরে থাকার পর
দীপু গ্রামে ফিরে এলো
ভালোয় মন্দোয় মিলিয়ে কেটে গেল দুবছর
বুঝতে পারলো
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SOMETHING I LOOK AT-383
BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY
You silently moved away,
...
All the rhythmic beats of the heart were wet
The happiness of your return is in the happiest tears
In the silent cloudy pond of the blue sky of the green veins
...
Desire has such better meaning to the young and the dauntless
Those not searching for empty havens that will come back to haunt us
Astonishments and rekindled love are the topics of discuss
And that prank, that's now classic
...
Before we meet,
of your existence,
I'll never lose hope.
...
Mental resolution makes man move forward to achieve dreams;
Resolution and passion are the driving force to do all great things;
The consecutive achievements happen as miracle by divine magic;
This is true when we see players in Chess and Cricket games!
...
Who Won
Today as the new president is inaugurated
Another conference is held
...
What is money?
is money a material reality?
no...
it's a psychological construct
...
When we meet another person…
may we be blessed to be advised…
not only to see their outward beauty
but…the beauty behind their eyes.
...
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
...
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:
...
(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
...
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:
...
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:
...
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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