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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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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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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I weep for Adonais -he is dead!
O, weep for Adonais! though our tears
Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!
And thou, sad Hour, selected from all years
To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers,
And teach them thine own sorrow, say: "With me
Died Adonais; till the Future dares
Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be
An echo and a light unto eternity!"
Where wert thou, mighty Mother, when he lay,
When thy Son lay, pierced by the shaft which flies
In darkness? where was lorn Urania
When Adonais died? With veiled eyes,
Mid listening Echoes, in her Paradise
She sate, while one, with soft enamoured breath,
Rekindled all the fading melodies
With which, like flowers that mock the corse beneath,
He had adorned and hid the coming bulk of death.
O, weep for Adonais -he is dead!
Wake, melancholy Mother, wake and weep!
Yet wherefore? Quench within their burning bed
Thy fiery tears, and let thy loud heart keep
Like his, a mute and uncomplaining sleep;
For he is gone, where all things wise and fair
Descend; -oh, dream not that the amorous Deep
Will yet restore him to the vital air;
Death feeds on his mute voice, and laughs at our despair.
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Children - are staring of eyes so frightful,
Mischievous legs on a wooden floor,
Children - is sun in the gloomy motives,
Hypotheses' of happy sciences world.
Eternal disorder in the ring's gold,
Tender word's whispers in semi-sleep,
On the wall in a cozy child's room, the dreaming
Peaceful pictures of birds and sheep.
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Out there in the dire hinterlands,
a vastness ebvelopes tropes of yesterday,
that will never be held again.
This wildness is not derivative; its real,
winding through a caligraphy of rocks,
like patterns placed with color in mind.
Urgencies of dryness causes the rain to
behave as unknowing saviors, bringing
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There's nothing more satisfying than going on a walk on the beach,
Hearing the seagulls squeak to each other while flying overhead,
A picture of the ocean is the best escape from the everyday experience when coming from war,
You can stick your toes in the sand and not have to worry about bombs crashing down,
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Being in a band isn't just one's job,
That's why teamwork matters,
Every single person has a unique part to play,
Someone has to play the drums,
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He lived down the street from us,
And came to be known as,
The man whose wife left him.
We speculated and surmised.
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I take in the beauty of wispy clouds in the blue sky. The sunlight shine on your face. When you call my name my heart skips a beat! Peony roses are in bloom, the little birds sing their songs. Butterflies sit on the roses its a lovely day in our home paradise.
Michael Cochrane © 2023
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What is invisible is visible, and what is visible is invisible!
The Gnostic puzzle and paradox!
I often wonder why people want to see the invisible!
Because I see His clear proof in His visible manifestation...
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Friday morning, June 2, 2023 at 9: 18 a.m. and 10: 08 a.m.
'I know not seems …'
—Hamlet, in soliloquy, in Act I of Will Shakespeare's HAMLET
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In the world of words, there's a treasure trove,
Of stories, poems, and plays that we love,
From Shakespeare to Bronte, from Dickens to Keats,
English literature, a journey that never retreats.
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Hey Ghetto president.
What steel made your veins?
Your revolutionary blood was
Boiled in the ancient bowls of defiance.
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In dingy fog of life
Trying to carry a
Lantern to make
Sense of things.
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A ring of nine gamma ray bursts was found
nine billion light years far away, it's claimed,
which ‘should not exist' say thinkers renowned,
although discovered through further tests aimed
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Grapple, grapple, struggle, bend, stretch
Our wrestlers fight for nation and for self.
Grovel, grovel, pinned down in their fight
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Suicide, suicide
Your presence is near
Suicide, suicide
I wish you were here
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1. Take a shower you don't want to smell.
2. Pick out an outfit that will blend in with the latest trends and won't make you a laughing stock of the school more than you already are
3. Put on some makeup so you can't even recognize yourself and your face tingles with an unbelievable issue. You can't satisfy otherwise you'll have ruined the hours of meticulous painting you apply to your face.
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I will never forget you my dearest soulmate..
these old meomries will never fade...
you've always laid me in your shade...
whenever I trembled or felt afraid....
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............sitting here in the stillness
.............................staring
...............staring out the window
...at darkness my friend and my foe.
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He was before his beloved,
Kneeling on his thighs……..
His shoulders were down,
With his soulful cries…….
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I was like a withered flower in a barren desert,
till I breathed your smile that brought life to my heart.
I was like a homeless child looking for a shelter.
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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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