All works in progress...
As Oscar Wilde said
'Those that find ugly meanings in Beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find Beautiful meanings in Beautiful Things are the cultivated. For these there is Hope. They are the elect to whom Beautiful things mean only Beauty.'
Goggs
Travel light a friend once said to me,
'Yeah right' i thought with my big screen TV,
but over the years I've changed my view,
now i know there are very few things truly essential to you.
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Brother versus brother, an eye for an eye,
and all the while the innocent die,
The leaders and generals, tucked up in bed,
more women and children, dead.
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Bear things patiently,
Face adversity with courage,
Do not allow yourself to be degraded by pleasant vices,
Have respect for yourself in all that you do,
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I like my poems to rhyme,
not always, but most of the time,
but then I'll slip in a line,
which doesn't.
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You never fail to put a smile on my face,
to remove me metaphorically from this miserable place,
and that's the reason, I know it's true,
in such a short space, I've fallen for you.
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