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 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 do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.
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Roads not yet glistening, rain slight,
Broken clouds darken after thinning away.
Where they drift, purple cliffs blacken.
And beyond -- white birds blaze in flight.
Sounds of cold-river rain grown familiar,
Autumn sun casts moist shadows. Below
Our brushwood gate, out to dry at the village
Mill: hulled rice, half-wet and fragrant
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Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
and you're hampered by not having any,
the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find,
is simply by spinning a penny.
No -- not so that chance shall decide the affair
while you're passively standing there moping;
but the moment the penny is up in the air,
you suddenly know what you're hoping.
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In shadows cast by time's relentless hand,
Where whispers of the past and future blend,
I tread a path few hearts can understand,
In solitude, where weary spirits mend.
Each step I take, a story yet untold,
Of battles waged in silence, wounds unseen,
In trials where the bravest souls unfold,
And dreams are tempered in the fiery sheen.
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As time tells, through time
Beacon of light to all the earth
A Nation born for all
For Democracy to lift
...
"Have you ever met a Libra?
Scales tipping toward one side
Whichever plate, is laden most
You know it holds their pride
...
Attend a peace conference in rage
Vomit caviar, urine in Champaign,
graffiti a luxury car, boo a campaign
A naked parady of Shakespear on stage
...
One of the greatest football players of all time, who elevates people's views, inspires optimism and tenacity even in the face of hardship, and leads a simple and loving life, touches the hearts of crores. With the Ballon d'Or and golden shoes, Messi touches forever in shimmering letters beyond the horizon, eternity into eternity...
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This is the moment in your life's soundtrack
Where the rhythmic arpeggio performs
As flawless as spring's sweet scent of lilac
...
May we be blessed every moment we're awake
to take a little life lesson from our friend the lake….
When the lake was asked if one day she'd like to be an ocean
...
Today we took a beautiful hike…a journey we wanted to make
through some woods, across a meadow ending up at Two Medicine Lake.
This lake is sacred to the Blackfeet Nation because, as they explain,
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I walk to you, You walk with me,
I wait for you, You wait with me.
I watch you, You watch me.
I listen to you, You listen to me.
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It's raining heavily outside
And I'm burning in someone's memory
My soul is wounded with me
...
Beacon of Light
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In classrooms bright, where minds take flight,
A teacher's touch ignites the light.
...
The cat and the rat sat down for a chat
beneath the tall monkey tree
The problem they found was really profound
should the cat let the rat fun free?
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Long ago, in days gone by, when I was very small
we had a family doctor, one I knew that I could call.
Today things are very different, when I feel very ill
the first thing that is required of me is a form I have to fill.
...
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.
...
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:
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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.
...
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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