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10543 | VachelLindsay | TheWeddingOfTheRoseAndTheLotos | rose | The wide Pacific waters
And the Atlantic meet.
With cries of joy they mingle,
In tides of love they greet.
Above the drowned ages
A wind of wooing blows: —
The red rose woos the lotos,
The lotos woos the rose . . .
The lotos conquered Egypt.
The rose was loved in Rome.
Great India crowned the lotos:
(Britain... | rose |
7542 | MaryWismer | MyLoveAndOnlyLove | love | I don't always tell you
that the joy you bring,
brightened my way.
The years you've made
happy by sharing you cared!
I don't always tell you,
that the love you give brightens every day I live.
I'm thinking today of all that we've shared.
You've given encouragement, brightened my ways.
But the most important pa... | love |
6191 | JohnDryden | EpilogueToTheHusbandHisOwnCuckold | husband | Like some raw sophister that mounts the pulpit,
So trembles a young poet at a full pit.
Unused to crowds, the parson quakes for fear,
And wonders how the devil he durst come there;
Wanting three talents needful for the place,
Some beard, some learning, and some little grace.
Nor is the puny poet void of care;
Fo... | husband |
9925 | yuyjgyuk | RosesAreRed | red | 2222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222 22222222222222 | red |
6267 | ChristinaGeorginaRossetti | WifeToHusband | husband | Pardon the faults in me,
For the love of years ago:
Good-bye.
I must drift across the sea,
I must sink into the snow,
I must die.
You can bask in this sun,
You can drink wine, and eat:
Good-bye.
I must gird myself and run,
Though with unready feet:
I must die.
Blank sea to sail upon,
Cold bed to sleep in:
... | husband |
2856 | AnneKilligrew | OnDeath | death | Tell me thou safest End of all our Woe,
Why wreched Mortals do avoid thee so:
Thou gentle drier o'th' afflicteds Tears,
Thou noble ender of the Cowards Fears;
Thou sweet Repose to Lovers sad dispaire,
Thou Calm t'Ambitions rough Tempestuous Care.
If in regard of Bliss thou wert a Curse,
And then the Joys of Para... | death |
6653 | KathleenWest | TheJoyOfCooking | joy | One of the things that I'm most proud of
Since I was very young
Is learning to cook and enjoying it so
And what a pleasure it has become
It started with egg sandwiches for Dad
He liked one when he wanted a snack
He said mine were the best that could be had
I was proud to do something back
Then there was the app... | joy |
12587 | RoseAnnVShawiak | SwimmingInTheSky | swimming | Tracks across the heavens, disappearing into clouds, no
vehicles driving upon them, only pictures in my mind.
Wanting to be up there, hanging from strings which are
embedded here and there within the sky.
Having to be content with sitting here on the ground,
still wishing to be above, playing in blue heavens and
... | swimming |
469 | AllenSteble | OrderInTheAnimalKingdom | animal | Have you ever heard of a sheep-
that was a police officer?
arresting a lone wolf
for committing a murder
have you ever heard of a cow
that was a judge?
sentencing a pig
for stealing chocolate fudge
have you ever heard of an eagle-
that was a president?
flying above his subjects
watching over his residents
h... | animal |
6620 | WaltWhitman | JoyShipmateJoy | joy | Joy! shipmate--joy!
(Pleas'd to my Soul at death I cry;)
Our life is closed--our life begins;
The long, long anchorage we leave,
The ship is clear at last--she leaps!
She swiftly courses from the shore;
Joy! shipmate--joy! | joy |
5767 | ChrispinJohnson | WhatIsAHero | hero | Never did I ever think of the definition of a hero.
Is a hero someone who defends the innocent who can’t defend themselves?
Does a hero need's to be arcane? Is a hero someone who thinks of others first?
Is a hero someone who faces dangers in times of peril despite all the odds? Is a hero someone who goes that little... | hero |
10060 | TedSheridan | ALessonInSelfRespect | respect | Nobody gives a damn about you
Until you pick up a gun or strap on a bomb
And kill someone with your version of kindness
Nobody gives a damn about you
Until you have a couple too many drinks
Get behind the wheel of your SUV
And kill someone with your version of having fun
Nobody gives a damn about you
Until you ... | respect |
12198 | ManahilShafiq | SuccessInNeed | success | success is something
which u keep chasing
until u trap it in net
and lock it up
and look day and night
that the prisoner wont escape
and be caught somewhere else
by people who wont set it free
just like u planned to keep
and once it escapes
it leads to fighting and pain
and even break between success seekin... | success |
12844 | MichaelShepherd | AChineseTakeawayForDavidWithThanks | thanks | The ancient sage, beset with too many thoughts
for one human lifetime,
chooses carefully the place to sit
beside the lake,
under the even more ancient twisted pine
with the view of distant cliffs
where the stork’s cry echoes;
gathers his thoughts.
Out of mercy,
the breeze gently ruffles the surface
of the lak... | thanks |
5269 | D├│nallDempsey | YouWearMyKissesInYourHairForJan | hair | You wear
my kisses
in your hair
invisible
to everyone
but us
they glisten
like emotional jewelry
bloom like flowers
of desire
you wear
my kisses
in your hair
smiling secretly
to your self
as to how
they got there
& to where
the other kisses
...are! | hair |
12313 | ScarredUnknown | Suicide | suicide | i'm going to run away
i'm leaving this world
for all it has never done
i'm leaving this world
for all it never did
never seemed to care
never showed me love
never showed me joy
never gave me hope
i'm leaving this world
all it gave is pain
and regret
it let me make mistakes
like any normal person
yet i'd g... | suicide |
12569 | mepoetyepspoet | SwimmingBelowThePovertyLineInspirorJaSaabh | swimming | You Sir in your silent desire
to become a millionaire
alas prove my point also
we are today much more poorer
than then, sixty years ago
when youth was happy with just 300
and
one could save a tenner every month
Today despite the high Pension
they give
they say
one has to sell
one's woman's bangles
once he ... | swimming |
2263 | LindaEngwall | LackOfCourage | courage | Most days I feel
Like I am
Losing so much time
Sitting
Waiting
Hoping
For you to change
Never knowing quite for sure
If it is me or you that must change
Always believed that by
Not moving
Making no decision
Is the same as making one
Wondering if it is due to my lack of strength
Or no courage
To take thos... | courage |
1524 | GilGregorio | Change | change | It is a perilous venture to an unknown
where the living world is limitless
like weeds from a faraway land
dreaming...and hoping...
It is a desert where the woes tremble
like a torch's sparkle at night
and the origin is not known yet
chanting...and lifting...
But, it has wings that can endure
even swallow those... | change |
7822 | JacquelineDougherty | MemoryOfYou | memory | You are but a memory to my dear heart
that dwindles as each day passes me by.
My heart yearns for you, but you're not there,
only your memory is, and that hurts even more.
The tears are all too real and they follow the pain
my heart feels when it misses you so.
Memory upon memory floods the gates
and soon I begi... | memory |
373 | DavidBeckham | DefeatAnger | anger | Anger bestowed upon self
Is weight upon soul
If you cannot walk with rocks tied onto your feet
Why then would you put so much weight onto your soul
It hurts inside, and you know it
It burns inside, and you feel it
But you not listening to your reasoning
Nor paying attention to your past
Let go, would be easy
B... | anger |
13735 | Sappho | WithoutWarning | warning | Without warning
as a whirlwind
swoops on an oak
Love shakes my heart | warning |
13590 | StephenCrane | TellBraveDeedsOfWar | war | "Tell brave deeds of war."
Then they recounted tales, --
"There were stern stands
And bitter runs for glory."
Ah, I think there were braver deeds. | war |
8263 | RobertWilliamService | YoungMother | mother | Her baby was so full of glee,
And through the day
It laughed and babbled on her knee
In happy play.
It pulled her hair all out of curl
With noisy joy;
So peppy she was glad her girl
Was not a boy.
Then as she longed for it to sleep,
To her surprise
It just relaxed within her keep
With closing eyes.
And as i... | mother |
8839 | archielangford | PlasterdInParis | paris | I cant pretend that the long week end
That I spent in gay Parie
Though `twas great left me in a state
Of very low degree.
The Mona Lisa smiled at me
And I smiled back at her
Went to Montmartre to study art
And take in the Sacre- Coeur
.
A bottle of wine when I went to dine
On the St Gernain des Pris
Drunk ... | paris |
854 | PercyByssheShelley | HymnToIntellectualBeauty | beauty | The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats through unseen among us, -- visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower, --
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower,
It visits with inconstant glance
Each human heart and countenance;
Like hues and ... | beauty |
13819 | DeboraShort | WaterSteamAndIceCoupletsEdited | water | I am the contrails in the sky
Transporting your love to my heart-felt joy
I am those rolling white riffles splashing
Across those ancient glistening granite rocks
I am the warm tingling steaming massage
Sensate-ly refreshing your tired soul
I am that energizing frozen cube
That cools that sweet tea you sip on ou... | water |
14052 | RobertFrost | AnOldMansWinterNight | winter | All out of doors looked darkly in at him
Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars,
That gathers on the pane in empty rooms.
What kept his eyes from giving back the gaze
Was the lamp tilted near them in his hand.
What kept him from remembering what it was
That brought him to that creaking room was age.
He... | winter |
4866 | ThomasHardy | TheSickGod | god | I
In days when men had joy of war,
A God of Battles sped each mortal jar;
The peoples pledged him heart and hand,
From Israel's land to isles afar.
II
His crimson form, with clang and chime,
Flashed on each murk and murderous meeting-time,
And kings invoked, for rape and raid,
His fearsome aid in rune and rhym... | god |
8356 | FrankJamesRyanJr | TheUnPerfectMurder | murder | You're making a witless lout of yourself
Can't you see, in your mirror of vanity
She said this, an' that, and finally she
Was as quiet and still as a cold body be
He wrapped her on up in a cranberry sheet
An erudite choice of colour I'd say
Carried her down by the fire escape
Sang a song by Joplin while spinning... | murder |
13355 | AldoKraas | ITrustInMyFaithSong | trust | I trust in my faith
Because I have faith in God
And at the same time I believe in God | trust |
5691 | katie | BeMyHero | hero | would you do me a favour
and take me in your arms
take me some where out of sight
take me oh so far
away from all these people
full of hope and faith
set me down beside this lake
and sit with me a while
untill my depression fades away
untill im me again
and then
tell me that you love me
tell me that you car... | hero |
4689 | WilliamBlake | ALittleGirlLost | girl | Children of the future age,
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
In the age of gold,
Free from winter's cold,
Youth and maiden bright,
To the holy light,
Naked in the sunny beams delight.
Once a youthful pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden b... | girl |
12475 | GiorgosSeferis | OurSun | sun | This sun was mine and yours; we shared it.
Who's suffering behind the golden silk, who's dying?
A woman beating her dry breasts cried out; `Cowards,
they've taken my children and torn them to shreds, you've
killed them
gazing at the fire-flies at dusk with a strange look,
lost in blind thought.'
The blood was dr... | sun |
3997 | RmShanmugamChettiar | FootballAndBasketball | football | Let children play football or basketball.
They would experience camaraderie,
Team spirit and togetherness.
They would learn bearing failures and defeats
And abiding by rules and regulation.
They would develop reflex action
Necessary for spontaneous response.
They would develop a steel physique.
Let children was... | football |
6954 | JenniferHanson | ThereAKiss | kiss | There's a kiss to say I love you,
There's a kiss to say I care.
There's a kiss to prove our friendship,
There's a kiss for us to share.
There's a kiss to say it's true
But the kiss I love the most,
Is the kiss I get from you. | kiss |
1688 | johntiongchunghoo | TravelHaikuMillenniumParkChicago | chicago | Millennium Park Cloud Gate
our cameras freeze
a part of the millennium
Millennium Park Cloud Gate
coming out of my mouth
the millennium inside me
Millennium Park Cloud Gate
the millennium inside me cheers
on the millennium outisde
Millennium Park Cloud Gate
we freeze the millennium
with a click of our camera... | chicago |
3654 | RainerMariaRilke | PortraitOfMyFatherAsAYoungMan | father | In the eyes: dream. The brow as if it could feel
something far off. Around the lips, a great
freshness--seductive, though there is no smile.
Under the rows of ornamental braid
on the slim Imperial officer's uniform:
the saber's basket-hilt. Both hands stay
folded upon it, going nowhere, calm
and now almost invis... | father |
7537 | hazemaljaber | LoveYouAndDontKnowHowToLoveYo | love | love you, and don`t know how to love you....
or why i love you...
or how your love came to me...
love you, because you are my passion and my amatory...
because you are my first letters in my school...
and my first picture in my memory...
and my air which is in my chest...
love you, because you, whom taught me yo... | love |
6246 | OgdenNash | ThePerfectHusband | husband | He tells you when you've got on
too much lipstick
And helps you with your girdle
when your hips stick. | husband |
10924 | OtteriSelvakumar | SickSmile | sick | Sick is
Not a sick...
With smile of
Men and women...
Smile...
With kill your sick...
With out smile...
you are good sick patient...! | sick |
13779 | DavidHarris | SkippingStonesAcrossTheWater | water | You go to a beach
and one of the first things you do
is grab a few stones,
skip them across the water
to see how many times they skip
and how far they go.
I don’t know if this is a man’s thing,
or if females do it to.
Therefore, my female friends out there
you’ll have to let me know. | water |
1326 | LindaWinchell | DonTTryToDriveTheCar | car | Don’t try to take the driver’s wheel
When someone is spinning out of control.
Just let them make their own wrong turns
And… let the wheel go!
If we’re always sitting in the drivers seat
One will never know how to drive.
Just sit and be God’s passenger…and pray
And allow that driver to drive.
They’re in the best... | car |
12411 | SaundraDiamante | SummerRainbows | summer | It's that beautiful summer sky..
Like blue raspberries
I dare to try...
Freshly squeezed home made orange tropicana...
To wash down my yellow banana...
Ruby red cherries
How sweet the summer berries..
Dark green rhines
Of sweet red watermelon..
The perfect scenario of heaven...
The perfect summer rainbow...
... | summer |
10410 | SandraFeldman | RomanticFeeling | romantic | How deep romantic feeling,
Our lives can often change,
A look, a touch and reeling,
Our hearts fully engage,
It's that Romantic Feeling,
That still we do possess,
That makes our lives appealing,
And Love in Life, the best. | romantic |
6965 | Dwiutami | kissKiss | kiss | The kiss was two hearts in the warmth.
The kiss was two hearts enjoyed each other.
The kiss was fate in the love.
The kiss was love fire.
The kiss completed the life.
You kissed because of the love.
I kissed because of the longing.
The kiss was two speaking hearts mutually.
Kiss....please I'want to kissed.
The... | kiss |
9986 | JonathanROBIN | IRememberIRememberPastAndPresentAfterThomasHoodAndWilliamWordsworthLucy | remember | I remember, I remember
the house where I was born
before foreclosure took away
the homestead I had sworn
in good faith, all attest 'tis true,
to leave grandchildren three: -
times change, leave little rest, I rue
that difference to me!
It seems so very long ago
the liberating Yanks
found welcome everywhere th... | remember |
11866 | AldoKraas | IFeelTheSorrowAndThePain | sorrow | I Feel
The
Sorrow
And
The
Pain
Ev ery
Time
I
Have
To
Walk
Along
This
Path
At
Night | sorrow |
9729 | MarchetteChute | SpringRain | rain | The storm came up so very quick
It couldn't have been quicker.
I should have brought my hat along,
I should have brought my slicker.
My hair is wet, my feet are wet,
I couldn't be much wetter.
I fell into a river once
But this is even better! | rain |
1914 | RaviSathasivam | BecauseOfChristmasDay | christmas | When the December comes
When the white snow cover our lands
My heart is filled with joy
because this is the month for Christmas
When the carols are being sung
When the Christmas trees are brighten the house
When the stockings are overflowing under the tree
When everyone's face is glowing to open the gifts
My he... | christmas |
10055 | ThomasMoore | YouRememberEllen | remember | You remember Ellen, our hamlet's pride,
How meekly she bless'd her humble lot,
When the stranger, William, had made her his bride,
And love was the light of their lowly cot.
Together they toil'd through winds and rains,
Till William, at length, in sadness said,
"We must seek our fortune on other plains;" --
Then... | remember |
8479 | marieelizabethvampirus | BindToNature | nature | it'll be you and me
up in the tree
and the forest will give us the answers
it'll be you and i
up in the sky
we'll be so high
its a combination for disaster
i'll be yours and you'll be mine
its a law i cannot define but the fire
will keep us burning for eachother
it'll be us against them
the current churnning... | nature |
6354 | HasmukhAmathalal | PersonalIdentity | identity | Personal identity
Women always need attention
If all want its retention
In life and elsewhere
One must always stand firmly and dare
No doubt, they have suffered most
At heavy cost
Cruelty in behavior
And almost compromise with honor
She has stood ground well
For the whole of world to tell
'Look we are no mea... | identity |
7043 | D├│nallDempsey | StolenLaughterForJunie | laughter | My soul
disguised as a shadow
drifted back
into my past
managed unseen
to cross the border
of Life
(& Death)
enter again
that room
where the memory
begins
(when the memory wasn’t even a memory)
but the real thing
my soul steals a crumb
of her laughter
nothing that could be
missed
the merest sliver.
I... | laughter |
8851 | PirateLoveMagicMan | ToParis | paris | I want to look into her dreamy eyes, But she turns them away and my heart sighs. I want to hold her hand and intertwine our fingures, But my
ennocent youthful sweat lingures.I want to embrace her in my arms to cuddle, But when I raise them there is no mass, no muscle.I want to feel
her soft lips in a sweet pashoinet ... | paris |
159 | FrederickKesner | CrossroadsOfAmerica | america | Crossroads of this brave New World:
tiring - perhaps no longer young
Big city, rural city? central point -
refreshing - this nation's innovative belly
city of indigenous America, cosmopolitan
reflective - luminescent in waning light
hopeful in the new day dawning bright
still movement, raucous plains of crop
Gr... | america |
3566 | Scarlet | TheRealMmeaningOfTheWordFamily | family | what do you think of when you say your family
do you think of those you share blood with
i sure don't
i think of those who are there for me
sure we do not share blood
but we share something strong
we share trust
so when you say family
i think of my online family
for those are the people that have been there fo... | family |
5430 | JaneAusten | HappyTheLabRer | happy | Happy the lab'rer in his Sunday clothes!
In light-drab coat, smart waistcoat, well-darn'd hose,
Andhat upon his head, to church he goes;
As oft, with conscious pride, he downward throws
A glance upon the ample cabbage rose
That, stuck in button-hole, regales his nose,
He envies not the gayest London beaux.
In ch... | happy |
11950 | ArthurHenryAdams | ASpringSonnet | spring | Last night beneath the mockery of the moon
I heard the sudden startled whisperings
Of wakened birds settling their restless wings;
The North-east brought his word of gladness, "Soon!"
And all the night with wonder was a-swoon.
A soul had breathed into long-dreaming things;
Some unseen hand hovered above the strin... | spring |
1245 | louisrams | Butterfly | butterfly | butterfly
I stopped to look at a butterfly-then it flew away.
Yet! -left me with an impression.
With me it will always stay.
Its wings were a beautiful brown-with polka dots you see.
I had wanted to grab it-but I knew it had to be free.
They only have a short life span
But in their life -they live an eternity.
... | butterfly |
1650 | MichaelHopkins | ChicagoWasOnce | chicago | Chicago was once
A city of strong shoulders
Times of strong,long gone
© 2018.M.N. Hopkins | chicago |
12144 | MelvinaGermain | 340Success | success | Success is having what it takes
to keep positivity on the trail
to total freedom.
Stand firm,
knock negativity to the ground,
forgetting it ever came around.
Holding yourself accountable
for everything you do.
Offering a helping hand to those not as
fortunate as you.
Giving when finances are high,
giving wh... | success |
5835 | RobertSouthwell | LookHome | home | Retired thoughts enjoy their own delights,
As beauty doth in self-beholding eye ;
Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,
A brief wherein all marvels summed lie,
Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,
Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.
The mind a creature is, yet can create,
To natur... | home |
7378 | BernardShaw | CompletelyLost | lost | Have you ever had that feeling?
That you are completely lost.
Your mind and senses reeling,
As in a dark foreboding frost.
Nothing but nothing is as it seems,
Words like phantoms come and go.
It is as if all the bizarre dreams,
Have turned your brain to snow.
The ticking of the mantelpiece clock,
Cuts the sile... | lost |
11196 | ErnestineNorthover | OurTroubledSky | sky | When thunderstorms come out to play,
And lightning o'er this earth is seen,
Dense clouds descend in colours grey,
And rain pours forth, where sun has been.
When crescendos resound in humid air,
And exacerbate our troubled sky,
Will all the power residing there,
Look kindly down from portals high.
Such danger lu... | sky |
9683 | CarlSandburg | HorsesAndMenInRain | rain | Let us sit by a hissing steam radiator a winter's day, gray wind pattering frozen raindrops on the window,
And let us talk about milk wagon drivers and grocery delivery boys.
Let us keep our feet in wool slippers and mix hot punches--and talk about mail carriers and
messenger boys slipping along the icy sidewalks.
... | rain |
3733 | MarianWheaton | Fear | fear | Fear is an agonizing thing
It cripples deep inside
It freezes the thinking part of you
So you want to run and hide
It creeps like a burglar upon you
Causing shivers to run down your spine
It reduces you to an empty shell
And destroys all that is fine
Don't let fear get a hold on you
Fight it with all your migh... | fear |
506 | EllaWheelerWilcox | ABabyInTheHouse | baby | I knew that a baby was hid in that house,
Though I saw no cradle and heard no cry;
But the husband was tip-toeing 'round like a mouse,
And the good wife was humming a soft lullaby;
And there was a look on the face of the mother,
That I knew could mean only one thing, and no other.
The mother, I said to myself, fo... | baby |
2927 | GhadaShahbender | Depression | depression | I no longer know me
I don't want to be
I look in the mirror
and a stranger looks back at me
She too is in a bad dream
No one can hear her scream
Her eyes blindfolded and her hands tied
Her voice is muted and her mouth open wide
Strangers all around her
A stranger by her side
She stands in the middle and has n... | depression |
9155 | SadiqullahKhan | inPink | pink | From whispers to heavy noise
My art of love as it melted
In fine connections invisible
From below the arch of brow
In pink I read your eyes
My pride bent in salutation
Your whole being is surrounded
By the music inside my head
My languor and your rhythm
The melody living in my steps
From the sorrows of silenc... | pink |
5829 | EmilyDickinson | INeverFeltAtHomebelow | home | 413
I never felt at Home—Below—-
And in the Handsome Skies
I shall not feel at Home—I know—
I don't like Paradise—
Because it's Sunday—all the time—
And Recess—never comes—
And Eden'll be so lonesome
Bright Wednesday Afternoons—
If God could make a visit—
Or ever took a Nap—
So not to see us—but they say
Hi... | home |
5912 | FloraAParham | Hope | hope | AS I LOOK INTO THE FUTURE,
I HOPE FOR PEACE.
PEACE OF MIND
PEACE OF MAN
PEACE OF THE SPIRIT.
I HOPE FOR MORE LOVE OF GOD,
FOR IN THIS LIES THE HOPE OF MANKIND.
GOD IS LOVE
GOD IS EVERYTHING!
LIFE IS GOD'S GIFT TO MAN.
HOPE IS THE WANTING OF A BETTER FUTURE
OF A RICHER MEANING OF WHAT LOVE IS ALL
ABOUT.
I N... | hope |
11719 | NHIENNGUYENMD | TheEyesOfMissS╞бnT├вyTranslationPoemOfQuangDuNg─Р├┤iM─ГTNg╞░╞бIS╞бnT├вy | son | You came here from Sơn city, running away from enemy
I also left home since participating in war activity
I have been far away from Bất Bạt many days
Blue evenings see no Ba Vì mountain.
Your forehead caries the country sky
Your eyes are like well water of village
I have longed for Đoài with white clouds very... | son |
13161 | TedSheridan | ForeverJoinedTogetherAtTheHip | together | nine minutes and thirty seven seconds
was the time it took for her to fire up her temper and car
while deciding how she was going to end her life or his
the sex had been good for a while but not good enough
that he would keep his promised vows to her
she knew he was going to be with the other woman
she had smelle... | together |
11559 | EmilyDickinson | ISometimesDropItForAQuick | sometimes | 708
I sometimes drop it, for a Quick—
The Thought to be alive—
Anonymous Delight to know—
And Madder—to conceive—
Consoles a Woe so monstrous
That did it tear all Day,
Without an instant's Respite—
'Twould look too far—to Die— | sometimes |
8076 | DustinBennefield | BlueMoon | moon | Blossoming from the rock
A soul of a desperate lock
Becomes one with the blue moon
Hues of blue and gray
A due of death today
A blue moon rises in the west
It seemed so long ago
When the moon was so-so
And never went to the side of the blue
Now life is happening
And flowers are dying
The moon so blue is in t... | moon |
1740 | KaronYan | Childhood | childhood | Childhood is rare
Unlike a bear
Childhood is fun
Unlike eating a bun
Childhood is like fire
Like the excitment of getting hired
Childhood is like honey
Like a hopping bunny
Appreciate childhood
Like when you first stood
Appreciate childhood... | childhood |
5338 | JeanetteMatthews | HeartbreakOrHappiness | happiness | Should I wait for you to fall in love with me
Or should I just forget about it and let it be
I don't want to wait for heartbreak
Because you and I both know this is something I can't take
I know that you are in love with someone else
And I don't want to be in a relationship all by myself
I want to understand your... | happiness |
7613 | LovinaSylviaChidi | LustLustLust | lust | He lusts for her
Her apple breasts
Beneath her vest
Taste the best
Lust, Lust, Lust
Three women on the go
Yet happiness does not flow
It is only
Lust, Lust, Lust
Her apple breasts
Beneath her vest
Taste the best
The natural flow of wetness
He hopes to taste once more
Maybe its vanilla flavor
Will be one ... | lust |
2786 | AlgernonCharlesSwinburne | ABalladOfDeath | death | Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears,
Girdle thyself with sighing for a girth
Upon the sides of mirth,
Cover thy lips and eyelids, let thine ears
Be filled with rumour of people sorrowing;
Make thee soft raiment out of woven sighs
Upon the flesh to cleave,
Set pains therein and many a grievous thin... | death |
14099 | MatsuoBasho | WhenTheWinterChrysanthemumsGo | winter | When the winter chrysanthemums go,
there's nothing to write about
but radishes.
Translated by Robert Hass | winter |
9807 | seemakheraAanamika805 | RainbowAndMe | rainbow | Life is like a Rainbow
Every colour gives us energy
Changes our mood
Converts energy to positive
When we actually need the most! !
Colours adds life to our living…
While driving home from my office
I saw the most beautiful
Vibrant Rainbow!
It was on my side
Almost moving with me.
I was passing under the arch... | rainbow |
5053 | FrancisDuggan | OfGreedAndCorruption | greed | Of greed and corruption we are all too aware
It's happening in your suburb and the big World out there
Many in high places into corporate crime
And more honorable than them in jail serving time
On the scales of justice one must cast a doubt
Big time corporate crims seldom ever caught out
Money speaks every langua... | greed |
12762 | ShashiDharKumar | ForMyBestTeacher | teacher | With a special gift for learning
And with a heart that deeply cares,
You add a lot of love
To everything you share,
And even though
You mean a lot,
You’ll never know how much,
For you helped
To change the world
Through every life you touched.
You sparked the creativity
In the students whom you taught,
And h... | teacher |
3299 | stevenlin | DrugsEvil | evil | Rises in the east,
sets in the west
cheers by friends,
denounces by the law
once who taste it,
never got rid of thee
try for my heart,
why it's so hard.
no songs that i could sing,
and they are came up with real things
drugs' like crap
never bring positive feedback
desire for a fabulous life,
but who has s... | evil |
9238 | YehudaAmichai | TemporaryPoemOfMyTime | poem | Hebrew writing and Arabic writing go from east to west,
Latin writing, from west to east.
Languages are like cats:
You must not stroke their hair the wrong way.
The clouds come from the sea, the hot wind from the desert,
The trees bend in the wind,
And stones fly from all four winds,
Into all four winds. They th... | poem |
10346 | ThomasChatterton | TheRomanceOfTheKnight | romance | The pleasing sweets of spring and summer past,
The falling leaf flies in the sultry blast,
The fields resign their spangling orbs of gold,
The wrinkled grass its silver joys unfold,
Mantling the spreading moor in heavenly white,
Meeting from every hill the ravished sight.
The yellow flag uprears its spotted head,... | romance |
6505 | MOHAMMADSKATI | January1st2015 | january | When 2014 accelerates its final days, then A new 2015 will be on our doors... All of us know what has happened in That 2014's days and nights clearly... Everyone saw those passing days l... | january |
4823 | HasmukhAmathalal | LoveIsGodAndGodIsLove | god | Love is God and God is love
"Love is God and God is love" all may say
I found no name that actually professed these words to lay
I bow my head to preachers who really follow the spirit
And guide the masses to bow their head and touch the feet
It has become customary and now a show business
Visit temple, mosque or... | god |
14249 | HenryDavidThoreau | EpitaphOnTheWorld | world | Here lies the body of this world,
Whose soul alas to hell is hurled.
This golden youth long since was past,
Its silver manhood went as fast,
An iron age drew on at last;
'Tis vain its character to tell,
The several fates which it befell,
What year it died, when 'twill arise,
We only know that here it lies. | world |
8722 | sjgoldner | SheWoreWatercolorsIntoTheOcean | ocean | Enticing the freedom of the creviced earth
a young woman was fleeing the very
confines of her creature,
when she fell into the orphic mist of a fjord
that led to a blue, blue, ocean.
The seaweed agar, once dried in the sun,
provided her vitamins while the lox
from a tiny spring fed her minerals.
And within the ... | ocean |
4062 | AnonymousAmericas | TheFootballMatch | football | I.
O wild kaleidoscopic panorama of jaculatory arms and legs.
The twisting, twining, turning, tussling, throwing, thrusting,
throttling, tugging, thumping, the tightening thews.
The tearing of tangled trousers, the jut of giant calves protuberant.
The wriggleness, the wormlike, snaky movement and life of it;
The ... | football |
1629 | MarissaLiebowitz | Chicago | chicago | There is a place not far from here
A place that I must go
A place to escape all my troubles
The city of Chicago
The place I am right now
Is quite simply a living hell
But I never went to Chicago
So i guess it may be as well
But from What I've heard
It's a very exciting spot
And the place I am right now
Most ... | chicago |
2308 | ThadWilk | CrazyForYou | crazy | Am I crazy, for feeling the way
that I do?
For every waking moment my
thoughts are all of you.
If I lost the bliss of your sweet
kiss, I know not what i'd do.
I would pine away in just one day.
This I know is true.
~
Am I crazy, when this is the way
I feel?
Should I pinch myself to find out
if this feeling ... | crazy |
3684 | FrankieStones | AFear | fear | I didn't know what to do,
I was trapped,
A prisoner,
A slave,
I had nowhere to run,
Nowhere to hide,
Nowhere to go,
And nowhere to cry,
I'm all alone in this world
I have no shoulder to cry on,
No person to love,
Nothing to look forward to,
Yet I go on,
I live my life
In fear of everything,
I fear I will... | fear |
8221 | EmilyDickinson | NatureTheGentlestMotherIs | mother | Nature the gentlest mother is,
Impatient of no child,
The feeblest of the waywardest.
Her admonition mild
In forest and the hill
By traveller be heard,
Restraining rampant squirrel
Or too impetuous bird.
How fair her conversation
A summer afternoon,
Her household her assembly;
And when the sun go down,
Her ... | mother |
1743 | PaliGirlS | Childhood | childhood | Childhood...
Childhood...
Childhood...
C hildhood...
everyone will always remember there
past times..
we share them with our
friends and family
I sometimes wish
im still in my childhood year
it was so much fun,
playing with my cousins
going to fun places.
Childhood...
Ederley people share it with
the gra... | childhood |
725 | StephenCFoster | BeautifulDreamerSerenade | beautiful | 1 Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
2 Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
3 Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
4 Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd a way!
5 Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,
6 List while I woo thee with soft melody;
7 Gone are the cares of life'... | beautiful |
12391 | JohnClare | SummerEvening | summer | The frog half fearful jumps across the path,
And little mouse that leaves its hole at eve
Nimbles with timid dread beneath the swath;
My rustling steps awhile their joys deceive,
Till past, and then the cricket sings more strong,
And grasshoppers in merry moods still wear
The short night weary with their fretting... | summer |
8440 | ClarenceMichaelJamesStanislausDennis | TheMusicOfYourVoice | music | A vase upon the mantelpiece,
A ship upon the sea,
A goat upon a mountain-top
Are much the same to me;
But when you mention melon jam,
Or picnics by the creek,
Or apple pies, or pantomimes,
I love to hear you speak.
The date of Magna Charta or
The doings of the Dutch,
Or capes, or towns, or verbs, or nouns
Do... | music |
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