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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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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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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A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness couldn't catch up to him,
the best reason I ever heard
for trying to be a champion.
What I wonder tonight
pedaling hard down King William Street
is if it translates to bicycles.
A victory! To leave your loneliness
panting behind you on some street corner
while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas,
pink petals that have never felt loneliness,
no matter how slowly they fell.
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'the withness of the body' --Whitehead
The heavy bear who goes with me,
A manifold honey to smear his face,
Clumsy and lumbering here and there,
The central ton of every place,
The hungry beating brutish one
In love with candy, anger, and sleep,
Crazy factotum, dishevelling all,
Climbs the building, kicks the football,
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When I first saw you,
I saw you as a house,
Broken, silent,
with cracked windows
and dust dancing in every corner.
I didn't know why,
but my heart knocked on your door.
And you… you opened it.
You let me in,
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When the weight
On your shoulders
Seems to be a little
Too heavy for you
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I was standing in a world,
Where only we mattered,
Mirrors were reflecting our deepest ecstasies.
You slid your hand over my waist,
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Broiling in the sun
Baking in the midday heat
Sweating in despair
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I dwell beneath a painted sky, not bound by stone or beam,
A house may stand around my steps, yet still I chase a dream.
A landlord with no resting place, yet joy walks at my side,
For Samuel's song lives in my chest - Yaweh's voice is wide.
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Something I longed to speak—
But where, and to whom, could I speak?
I, the speaker; I, the listener—
What veils lie between me and myself?
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A LOOK-371
Your eyes speak to me,
your shadow brushes my skin
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Cherry blossoms fill
Branches of trees in sight
A festival of fulfillment.
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They have prepared a silk shroud for you, my dear.
They will give their best just to make you leave this world.
To trample your name, to erase you from our memory.
To compress your history of a thousand and more years into their historical holes of the dark abysses.
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If thou wouldst share thy humbled heart with strangers here and there,
Behold the love thou couldst impart with strangers everywhere.
And thus pour out each truth called wise, to heal each fragile soul,
That reads thy words with gladdened eyes, though tears couldst make them whole.
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My Raven came, he came a'tapping
on window pane
whilst I was napping
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Watching by the little window,
I see those kids, I see those pups,
Playing, joking, running around
Giggling, laughing, on a merry go round
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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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Beautiful is the 'thank you'
Wrapped with gratitude,
Offered to peace prone people
Who offer what is real-themselves
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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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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
...
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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