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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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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Someone inside says, "Get busy."
But I've got appointments to keep,
I have an abstemious love of equations calculated quickly
While the tepid day melts into design.
And the high cheekbones of the beautiful life
Bear the loose look of a calendar by lamplight.
I search for patterns in everything.
I am tied in knots of comprehension.
I think, how useful it might be
To pierce all the hands of the earth
With an oath of pins encircling snarling planets
But talent and shallowness sewn together
Is nothing but a kerchief tied around a survivalist's head,
And it helps to know the feet wriggling through a hole
In the universe will land for an instant
Upon the cushions of the dark,
And that after marching one doozy of a kilometer after another,
We each come upon the same poem scribbled in invisible ink
Taped to the door of a room
In which an austere justice is burning for us.
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I am not yet born; O hear me.
Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the
club-footed ghoul come near me.
I am not yet born, console me.
I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me,
with strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure me,
on black racks rack me, in blood-baths roll me.
I am not yet born; provide me
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A tiny seed, so small and round,
Grows roots deep beneath the ground.
Up it reaches, tall and bright,
Drinking sun and catching light.
Its branches dance, the birds all sing,
A home for every living thing.
A shady spot, a place to rest,
A gift of nature at its best.
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Oprecht Geweten woont niet in een Cordon Sanitair met kogelvrije vesten en brood op de plank elke dag!
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En wat doen we met al onze wegkijktranen;
we schenken ze aan kleurrijke mandrillenbillen en
aan gepantserde nieuwe krokodillen! M
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Als Nederland niets blijft doen tegen genocide en wantoestanden in de wereld wat doet het ICC hier dan nog?
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Let's send a deluge of "warning shots"
over all of Israel for the next 90 days
and see how it feels and what it says!
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I believe,
Yes, I firmly believe
You are the soul
Who resides behind
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I killed a dying cat as it attacked me.
And bit me to the bone and broke three of its claws off on my arm.
For showing it back out of the window of my home
I threw a child's red Wellington boot at it across the floor.
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I've seen afar a blazing point, a quiet star
In silver beams from branches gleams, from a tree, light streams
It comes forth so bright, in haste to quench the night
In dream of dreams, I've seen these things, and when I wake I'll build them, I deem.
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My mother would speak
in a soft whisper of bone china.
We'd tiptoe into houses where cups
and saucers had delightful patterns,
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उसकी ही छांव तले आराम करने लगे
जिसे काटते- काटते थक गए थे, बेपीर
बेशर्मी की इन्तेहाँ से, वाकिफ जो न थे
न कुल्हाड़ी रूकी, न ही फलों का गिरना
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क्यों हुआ निराश तू, सफर से ओ मुसाफिर l
ये तो वो लम्हा है, जो यूं ही गुजर जायगा ll
मंज़िल जब होगी हांसिल, यकीनन l
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एक घने कोहरे से, गुजर रहे है हम इन दिनों l
नजरों के सामने होकर भी, नजर वो आते नहीं ll
दो कदम बढ़ाकर रुक गए वो, और हम चलते रहे l
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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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