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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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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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 free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
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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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I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
And walking up the long beach all alone
I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder
As you and I once heard their monotone.
Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me
The cold and sparkling silver of the sea --
We two will pass through death and ages lengthen
Before you hear that sound again with me.
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There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
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Once a Man rose high on the ground
Showing us miracles what is no manfound.
Teaching us to love so to share
Bore the pain what we should bear.
All we did is no one should hear
Spited on him in hate and fear.
Yet it didn't please our veins
Until his flesh and body is slain.
But that can't stop the heart of love
He had risen from the dead above.
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Exemplifying character,
glorifying talent,
you conquered the hearts of humankind...
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Shall this last for eternity,
For in this loop,
This has failed to end,
Left in agony,
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She accused him of polyamory,
Ghosting, orbiting
Fleabagging, benching
Stashing ‘n cushioning,
...
One night...........In my head,
A voice awakened me and said:
'Arise Gladden, and sit on thy chair'
'And write of things that bring you fear.'
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I'll be your lamp
I'll keep you bright
shining for all to see you
in all your magic
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বছর শেষে ঘরের বউ
ঘরে ফিরে আসে,
কে গো ভালোবাসে?
শেয়ার চতুর হাসে।।
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হঠাৎ গান গাইলো পাখি,
সবাই মুখ তুললো --
এই বুঝি কথা বলে স্বপ্নের ।
কিন্তু মৃত পাখির দিকে অবশেষে
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Dusty shelves guard forgotten lore,
Shadows stretch across the floor.
A candle flickers, its flame confined,
Pages breathe with an ancient mind.
...
Goodnight dear friends,
This night has met its end.
Lifting high the parting cider,
Yet smelling the roasted eider.
...
After the brightest page in history,
Came the most darkest story,
It was dim, dull and dumb,
People, pupil, persons, everyone worshipped the Deadlinks,
...
Comfort wears old cloths
Deceit paints itself with makeup
Arrogance vests in tight fitting shoes
Beauty gos naked
...
Grief is a part of life we endure,
when loved ones pass on,
it hits us for sure.
There's no time limit for grief,
...
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.
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Beautiful is the 'thank you'
Wrapped with gratitude,
Offered to peace prone people
Who offer what is real-themselves
...
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
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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
...
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.
...
"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:
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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.
...
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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