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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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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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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'Why keep a cow when I can buy,'
Said he, 'the milk I need,'
I wanted to spit in his eye
Of selfishness and greed;
But did not, for the reason he
Was stronger than I be.
I told him: ''Tis our human fate,
For better or for worse,
That man and maid should love and mate,
And little children nurse.
Of course, if you are less than man
You can't do what we can.
'So many loving maids would wed,
And wondrous mothers be.'
'I'll buy the love I want,' he said,
'No squally brats for me.'
... I hope the devil stoketh well
For him a special hell.
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Maud went to college.
Sadie stayed home.
Sadie scraped life
With a fine toothed comb.
She didn't leave a tangle in
Her comb found every strand.
Sadie was one of the livingest chicks
In all the land.
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I have never known healthy love
My mother, she was so angry always
I always felt like such a loser
They sent me away
And just like that
I was off and in another world
I felt like such a loser
Then I was left
By my father
My first love
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Friendship, honesty, responsibility, challenges of growing up moral themes positive values and Life Lessons in a movie called 'Full House' forever the morality living through us grewing up only the 90's child can relate the reality life that outcome us.
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Outside seems warm and cozy after the coldest first spring of march car side to side in a quiet neighborhood boys will always be boys no matter no matter girls
will be girls no matter how old either way achieving the little things your heart desire fulfill your goals and never giving up no matter how far no matter how downfall your life may lead you.
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When love arrives, it make you realize the amazing feeling that wholesome
your life heartedly forever through times
in our awakening life forever and always
since our holy vows of forever purpose
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The madness winds coldest spring sky as if it's about to rain heavily snow within two days the rain springy season about too approaching where colorfully blossom of greenery fills the open fill of garden and a warm clear sunshine above us.
...
Spring in jordan daylight are short and evening are longer
Spring begins in coldest of March and lasts until the end of May Spring boasts cooler temperatures approaching summer weather of spring ian ideal time for hikers, especially because this time of year abundance of wildflowers and green rolling hills.
Sunrise and sunset in Qatar spring still feel like warmth of summer where weatherIn reality, are already averaging 26.8 degrees from the beginning of March to the end of May in the heart of dead Sea and Aqaba always summery spring.
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Blessing is where you found love that your heartbeat longingly blessing that God has given you through your ages life blessings a kind of thanking grace a food on a table a warmth of a family, a gesture charity in orphanage that fills them thanking
God blessing where miracle happens unknowingly some prayer has answered some prayer meant to wait
in patient manner throughout the years that goes by throughout times that've waited
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All present now
All bridge courses,
And experience shows
We are all vanishing
...
Not easy to give
Not easy to take,
Giving and taking
All are there always
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You know that I am all inside you.
Burning as a fire all over you.
I make you calm when you follow me.
I give you sleepless nights.
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Today I'm thankful for poetry…
Even those poems that do not rhyme!
because anyone who reads poetry understands…
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When I think about where my love of rhymes comes from…the best I can deduce
is it all stems from my childhood…and a love of Mother Goose.
It's as if my parents weren't reading…but singing the stories of Humpty Dumpty,
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Garcia Lorca and his green winds
His verdes vientos I remember when
I first heard the sound of them in his verse
The dream rush of beautiful winds on earth
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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
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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
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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.
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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:
...
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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