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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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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SILENT and amazed, even when a little boy,
I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his
statements,
As contending against some being or influence.
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These fine days have been my ruin.
On this kind of day I resigned
My job in 'Pious Foundations'
On this kind of day I started to smoke
On this kind of day I fell in love
On this kind of day I forgot
To bring home bread and salt
On this kind of day I had a relapse
Into my versifying disease.
These fine days have been my ruin.
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In the realm of the heart, a longing resides,
A yearning so deep, it cannot be denied.
My heart's a garden, but parched and bare,
Yearning for the rain of your tender care.
O Proof of Allah, hidden yet near,
My heart calls your name through every tear.
O Master, unseen, the solace I seek,
The strength of my heart grows frail, weak,
Yet your promise, a beacon, steadfast and true,
Keeps my love twinkling, ever renewed.
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I embrace you as a riverbank embraces the river.
I embrace you as does a willow wand the wind.
I embrace you as a lover does their one true love.
I embrace you as does a flame the kindling.
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Strangers Once, Friends Forever
Strangers become friends
In a moment's conversation—
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The Wallflower was a gentle thing located in plain sight,
In wait for all the joys of Spring and Summer's blessed sunlight.
The other flowers paid no heed, too busy for a chat,
Too lost in thought, in word and deed, and thus, the end of that.
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I met all the shadows
In my glorious vision,
They calmly stared at me
For a long time,
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After the skies defy
Rule the ocean to ply;
Kind of the deputy spy
Lest it would be stingy:
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Glowing under the cold dead of winter
Right below the stars like wild Daphne vines
As you sob on your raft of frigid timbur
All you see in the water are your spines
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You are not there like a ghost.
You are not there like you are lost.
You stole my heart, now am tethering.
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SOMETHING I LOOK AT-428
BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY
Behind that beautiful smile
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জাতীয় ফল কাঁঠাল
ফলের রাজ্যে সেরা!
স্বাদে ঘ্রাণে অতুলনীয়,
পুষ্টিগুণে চড়া।
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कवी: चैतन्य विनायक कन्हेरीकर. सरला वर्षा ऋतू न सरती ओल्या आठवणी l शरद हेमंत सरता, वसंती वाट पाहे कोणी l llध्रुll. मावळ तिला हेमंत, उदिता ऋतू शिशिरी l. फुल तुर्यावर दव बिंदू तून ऊठे थंड शीर शिरी l आल्या जागून हिरव्या आल्या आठवणी ll१ll. कुठे बांग धुक्यात लोपली रान वाटेवरी l. कसेना जागे कुकुट पहाटे, दाट धुके पंखावरी l. पंख फडफडता उडाले शिंतोड्याचे पाणीll२ll. झाली पहाट कुठे गोठला दिनराज दिनमणी l. पांढऱ्या धुक्याची दुलही पांघरून झोपली डोंगर फणी l. सुगंध ओल्या मातीचा घेऊन आल्या आठवणी ll३ll. मध्यान दुपारी तिन्ही सांजा उलटून चंद्र लपला ओढणीत काळया l. सांज पाखरे न उडली न उमलता निजल्या सांज कळ्या l. स्वप्नात आळवीत मकरंदाची गाणी ll ४ll कवी: चैतन्य विनायक कन्हेरीकर. दिनांक: २९ जाने२००८
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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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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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Beautiful is the 'thank you'
Wrapped with gratitude,
Offered to peace prone people
Who offer what is real-themselves
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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
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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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