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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LOVE - what is love? A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair.
Life - what is life? Upon a moorland bare
To see love coming and see love depart.
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Up from the bronze, I saw
Water without a flaw
Rush to its rest in air,
Reach to its rest, and fall.
Bronze of the blackest shade,
An element man-made,
Shaping upright the bare
Clear gouts of water in air.
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Go, don't lose your way,
Stay on the road
Rose thorn concealed in your soul
Rectifiable by discretion,
Aim towards your goal
Little unknown
30 years, she's been striking a chord,
Into the heartbeat of thousands
30 years, and now she's spilling her honest,
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Blurry bloody ballet of a summer sky
hear a wet weeping beyond arid walls
daily horror creeping into sheltered lives
hear the swearing beyond a thick fog isle
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May you be blessed to fulfill most of your dreams…
before your life is through…
even those dreams no one knows about…
no-one…that is…but you.
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By Stanley Collymore
Why is it acceptable for your
bigoted morons as well as
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I woke up early this morning…not quite use to the change in time zones yet…
which was lucky as i caught the full moon just before she set.
And sitting on our balcony…adding to the moon's surprise…
...
There, where the creek goes blind
and darkening woods meet fields of rye
wrapped in peace, all time and all sorrows pass
strip them off, leave them here on this patch of grass
...
I rise from my bed in the dead of night
To pen my lonely poems,
Sleep will escape me until I release
The longing for you in a prayer ---
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Oh, how can it be?
I no longer trust the birds in the tree
nor do I trust the sweet honey bee's
or the nightingale's that sing
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Rise, oh Africa rise!
From the ashes of the past,
Claim your place in the skies
And let your spirit last.
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Amidst the murk, where shadows play,
A lotus blooms in disarray.
In muddy waters, dark and deep,
Its petals pure, their secrets keep.
...
Connie said to me
That I watch way too much lies on t.v,
Because, from what I believed and what I thought
She believed the truth I never sought.
...
Harriet Monroe 01 - തുടക്കം
അരുണകിരണങ്ങൾ
കടൽത്തിരകളെ
കണ്ടുമുട്ടിയപ്പോഴാണ്
...
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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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
...
Beautiful is the 'thank you'
Wrapped with gratitude,
Offered to peace prone people
Who offer what is real-themselves
...
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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