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 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 free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
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In Memoriam M.K.H., 1911-1984
She taught me what her uncle once taught her:
How easily the biggest coal block split
If you got the grain and the hammer angled right.
The sound of that relaxed alluring blow
Its co-opted and obliterated echo,
Taught me to hit, taught me to loosen,
Taught me between the hammer and the block
To face the music. Teach me now to listen,
To strike it rich behind the linear black.
A cobble thrown a hundred years ago
Keeps coming at me, the first stone
Aimed at a great-grandmother's turncoat brow.
The pony jerks and the riot's on.
She's couched low in the trap
Running the gauntlet that first Sunday
Down the brae to Mass at a panicked gallop.
He whips on through the town to cries of 'Lundy!'
Call her 'The Convert.' 'The Exogamous Bride.'
Anyhow, it is a genre piece
Inherited on my mother's side
And mine to dispose with now she's gone.
Instead of silver and Victorian lace
the exonerating, exonerated stone.
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I hear an army charging upon the land,
And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees:
Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand,
Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers.
They cry unto the night their battle-name:
I moan in sleep when I hear afar their whirling laughter.
They cleave the gloom of dreams, a blinding flame,
Clanging, clanging upon the heart as upon an anvil.
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I'm lost, I'm free
Standing still like a tree
Wishing it was the God's decree
That she appears in this season
In every gathering I'm alone
With my emotions I'm along
I'm not myself but a clone
And her beauty is the only reason
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Happy Father's Day to the Woman Who Wears Both Hats
To the mother who plays both roles — father and mother —
You are the strongest, wisest, and most selfless soul.
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He skips his wants to provide for us more,
Smiling even when his heart is sore.
He instructs without talking much,
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SOMETHING I LOOK AT-427
BY- SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY
A Father
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Two candle flames dance.
Oh, how they're longing to be re-entwined.
Wanting only the annihilation of each other
Oh, how they're subdividing, till it is finally time.
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Wherever you go, if you quietly linger
There are memory residues galore.
There is nothing ever unfamiliar.
The remnants of a sweatshop we abhor.
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कवी: चैतन्य विनायक कन्हेरीकर. लक्ष लक्ष दीप लुकलुकती हासत l. उजळीत दीप आसमंती गावी कर्जत l. सप्तरंग कुंचल्याने शिडकत l. सप्तर्षी जागला तेजस्वी तिमिरात l. सुनील नील मणी कौस्तुभा सम विराजित दिव्य परागी स्पर्शी जन संमोहित l. राजेंद्र स्वर्गीच्या देवेंद्र लाजवीत l. हरी परम परमेश्वर रूपे निखरत l. अर्चना सृष्टीची रचिता भासत l. विवेक जागवी सद विवेक बुद्धी जागृत l. प्रज्ञा ही स्थितप्रज्ञ प्रकटली वर्षत l. रसिक चैतन्य अति सुखावतं l. कवी: चैतन्य विनायक कन्हेरीकर. २१ऑक्टोबर२००६.
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Love beguiles us every step of the way.
Like snowdrops in February, we want to play.
Blood-pumping heart unfazed by loam or clay
Resisting the freeze of hard mid-February
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कवी: चैतन्य विनायक कन्हेरीकर. सांज सावळी कातर वेळी l. वरून राजा आला डोंगर भाळी llध्रुll पाऊस धारा वर करवंदी जाळी l. पाणलोट कपारीत सुखी मधमाशांचे पोळी l आड वाटेवरी प्रित बहरते वेडी खुळी ll१ll पाऊस धारा त्यात उन्हे आभाळी l. संगे वाऱ्यात फुले नाजूक कळी l. साद घालतो राणीला राजा अवेळी ll२ll. कवी: चैतन्य विनायक कन्हेरीकर. १७एप्रिल२००६
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The life before become bedtime for you and me
We could not go further from destiny
We hold are breath and it repent us for a while
True path soars up in the infinity
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Love-lit lamps excel power driven stars
Parading in the skies, marvellous majestic
Just as a brief candle excels more enduring lights
Brevity be blessed, particularly in its dazzle intense
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Hani o iki kişilik dünyalar bizimdi
Hani sen iyiydin
Halden anlardın
Hani sen git demiyecektin bana
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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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