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2905 | AmyLouiseKerswell | DepressionIsAngryAgain | depression | Depression is raging.
In the mist of its anger.
It eats my happiness.
Fasting on my sadness.
Depression has its hold on me.
Throwing me into despair.
Making me more and more insane
As my mind it drains.
Depression'll take me all the more
It dosent care so long as it has its hit.
It hates me every single bit.
... | depression |
13267 | johntiongchunghoo | TravelHaikuCarnivalInRioDeJaneiro | travel | let your hair down she says
it's time to put some sense
to Rio de Janeiro
Though Carnival doesn't start until next month, you can already see blocos, groups of musicians and revelers, celebrating in Rio's streets. The wild-and-wonderful, can't-miss event begins February 1 and includes extravagant parades featuring ... | travel |
4151 | NadaliaBagratuni | IWantMyFreedomBack | freedom | I want my freedom back,
This can't be right,
I'm a democrat!
I was supportive of human and civil rights,
I always thought that the government would take care of me,
Cradle to grave,
Yes sir re!
Now, as I get older,
I can truly see,
Freedom for some gives us less liberty,
I guess I traded in freedom from decis... | freedom |
7249 | JamesTaylor | TheLonelyAngel | lonely | The lonely Angel cries to herself,
Her head is hung low and her body is still,
She calls out into to darkness and hears her voice echo,
But there is no one else in her empty world,
She locks herself in afraid of what might happen,
Closes the illusive curtains and shuts the door to her feelings,
Her beautiful face... | lonely |
5745 | MailrangamVisvanathanVenkataraman | SorrowMakesOneAHeroTomorrow | hero | Without sorrow life is zero
We must accept fate's arrow
If our efforts are thorough
Our sorrow, God will borrow
Sorrows nicely shape our mind
Sorrows stop our being blind
Via sorrows, remedies we find
Sorrows are indirectly kind
In the absence of sorrow
Our mind does not grow
We think not like a hero
Our att... | hero |
10194 | MaryDarbyRobinson | LinesWrittenByTheSideOfARiver | river | FLOW soft RIVER, gently stray,
Still a silent waving tide
O'er thy glitt'ring carpet glide,
While I chaunt my ROUNDELAY,
As I gather from thy bank,
Shelter'd by the poplar dank,
King-cups, deck'd in golden pride,
Harebells sweet, and daisies pied;
While beneath the evening sky,
Soft the western breezes fly.
G... | river |
778 | UriahHamilton | SuchABeautifulPlace | beautiful | Gloomy faces in grocery stores
Traverse the aisles of the vegetables.
No one seems happy plotting out
And paying for their sustenance,
But personally, I adore
Every bag of gorgeously orange carrots
And the lovely dark green broccoli.
And how divine to see Italian wine
Or recently baked apple pies,
Sometimes I ... | beautiful |
11581 | DwayneBailey | SometimesISitAndPonder | sometimes | Sometimes I just sit and ponder,
what the true meaning of lifes all about;
Try and figure out my insucurites,
and the reason Im so full of doubt,
Maybe Im too hard on myself,
with the pressure I apply from within;
Maybe I want too much to fast,
here comes doubt creeping in again.
How can I find a balance in lif... | sometimes |
2536 | NehaDua | FirstDance | dance | Like an infant in the cradle
I rocked in his arms and penned this fable
The sweet lucid lyrics of the song
Made me forget right and wrong
He looked at me as if a rainbow in the sky
My heart skipped a beat and I felt so shy
My silky black hair acted as a veil
But his one touch and I let myself sail
He held me cl... | dance |
6310 | KumarDheeraj | Identity | identity | Truest is my identity
Truest I'm here.
I'll not shy, I'll not pretend
Coz now I don't have any fear.
Fear, That sucked me up
Was a dark black cloud to me ever
Once ruled me as a ruling king
Forced me to be his slaved queen forever.
He thought to possess me
And to leave me never.
Was darkest of all the darknes... | identity |
1125 | AmandaFord | BrotherLost | brother | my brother he is lost to me,
grew up and he out grew me.
moved away to hide from dad,
left me all alone and sad.
now he's forced to live a lie,
scared away by one big cry.
he wrecked the car so dad wrecked him,
kicked him out and forced hate in.
he's run away many times before,
but now he's allowed in no more.... | brother |
2406 | HasmukhAmathalal | BasicCulture | culture | Basic culture
What type of empowerment?
What shall we talk at resent?
That shall be merely lips service
With hollow words and promises
We frequently talk of mother
Own daughters and sisters
But forget about the fact outside
We openly lay a seize on them outside
What kind of criminal mentality we have?
How cru... | culture |
6725 | JamesWhitcombRiley | June | june | Queenly month of indolent repose!
I drink thy breath in sips of rare perfume,
As in thy downy lap of clover-bloom
I nestle like a drowsy child and doze
The lazy hours away. The zephyr throws
The shifting shuttle of the Summer's loom
And weaves a damask-work of gleam and gloom
Before thy listless feet. The lily b... | june |
8312 | JaredAshby | MurderIsMurder | murder | A man seeks revenge,
A widow cries,
A death to avenge,
A lawyer that lies,
What shall we do?
We take a stand for what is right,
We look through proof with reason,
We seek to end a fight,
We send him to prison,
guilty, guilty guilty.
Who is the guilty one?
The man in the chair?
Or is it the father of this so... | murder |
2533 | TheodoraTheoOnken | DoYouWannaDance | dance | Can you feel it? Can you sense it?
You know the rhythm
Sinking into your Dancing Feet?
Spiriting you up on the dance floor 'of life'
Moving your entire body, to the living beat -
Can you hear those Rocking Drums Beating?
And the Electric from Jimi's guitar?
Isn't it, simply amazing -
Middle-aged-and here we ar... | dance |
13282 | johntiongchunghoo | TravelHaikuMemoriesOfAustralia | travel | boomerang
memories of australia
bounce back | travel |
13812 | MaySwenson | WaterPicture | water | In the pond in the park
all things are doubled:
Long buildings hang and
wriggle gently. Chimneys
are bent legs bouncing
on clouds below. A flag
wags like a fishhook
down there in the sky.
The arched stone bridge
is an eye, with underlid
in the water. In its lens
dip crinkled heads with hats
that don't fall ... | water |
5779 | CraigRaine | AMartianSendsAPostcardHome | home | Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings
and some are treasured for their markings --
they cause the eyes to melt
or the body to shriek without pain.
I have never seen one fly, but
sometimes they perch on the hand.
Mist is when the sky is tired of flight
and rests its soft machine on ground:
then the world ... | home |
2219 | AmeliaEarhart | Courage | courage | Courage is the price that Life exacts
for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not
Knows no release from little things:
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter
joy can hear
The sound of wings.
How can life grant us boon of living,
compensate
For dull gray ugliness and pregn... | courage |
9657 | EdwardKofiLouis | WithoutRacism2 | racism | Righteous habitation! !
Following after righteous laws;
Able to overcome and, to help others!
Without racism. | racism |
5609 | EmilyDickinson | HeavenHasDifferentSignsMdashToMe | heaven | 575
"Heaven" has different Signs—to me—
Sometimes, I think that Noon
Is but a symbol of the Place—
And when again, at Dawn,
A mighty look runs round the World
And settles in the Hills—
An Awe if it should be like that
Upon the Ignorance steals—
The Orchard, when the Sun is on—
The Triumph of the Birds
When t... | heaven |
12477 | ErnestineNorthover | PaleMorningSun | sun | Pale morning sun that rises in the east,
Spread wide your light,
And let the warming blush be thus increased,
To shine more bright.
Welcome the dawn and so enhance the sky,
With colours that unite,
A vision there displayed, food for the eye,
Quick changing sight.
A new day now unfolds, and in its glow,
The sce... | sun |
5265 | RommelMarkDominguezMarchan | WindWindCombsMyHair | hair | (written in Palilan river, Palilan Jimenez, Mis. Occ.'Philippines
just a 10 m.. away from my home.A river is located at the back my
elem. grade school and to where i spent my concised childhood
moments, leisure times, chanting with friends, swimming, collecting shells, diving,
and escaping from 'undefined responsi... | hair |
7195 | WilliamWordsworth | IWanderedLonelyAsACloudDaffodils | lonely | I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Alon... | lonely |
12496 | HenryRowe | Sun | sun | ANGEL, king of streaming morn;
Cherub, call'd by Heav'n to shine;
T' orient tread the waste forlorn;
Guide aetherial, pow'r divine;
Thou, Lord of all within!
Golden spirit, lamp of day,
Host, that dips in blood the plain,
Bids the crimson'd mead be gay,
Bids the green blood burst the vein;
Thou, Lord of all wi... | sun |
9707 | DuFu | Rain | rain | Roads not yet glistening, rain slight,
Broken clouds darken after thinning away.
Where they drift, purple cliffs blacken.
And beyond -- white birds blaze in flight.
Sounds of cold-river rain grown familiar,
Autumn sun casts moist shadows. Below
Our brushwood gate, out to dry at the village
Mill: hulled rice, hal... | rain |
12205 | AbdulWahab | Success | success | Kites play with birds and clouds
Delicate wishes get desired wings
He defeats failures with great hardships
And it seems he makes friendship with wind
Dances naked along with his insane whims
But his success depends on how he kisses the ground
Unhurt, unclipped along with storm and rain! | success |
238 | SteveArmstrong | DarkAngel | angel | I see you now,
and it makes me cry in my heart,
one so beautiful, and yet,
so damaged and messed up inside.
The scars that line your arms,
look like the intricate artwork of a tattooist,
those razor cuts and puncture wounds,
signs of a desparate cry for help.
That vacant look upon your face,
the doctors miracl... | angel |
2205 | EdgarAlbertGuest | CourageCourageCourage | courage | When the burden grows heavy, and rough is the way,
When you falter and slip, and it isn't your day,
And your best doesn't measure to what is required,
When you know in your heart that you're fast growing tired,
With the odds all against you, there's one thing to do:
That is, call on your courage and see the thing ... | courage |
4917 | AiyannaOrtiz | Graduation | graduation | Twelve years we have worked for this
day after day, year after year
Teachers filled are head with knowledge
most encouraged us to dream big
but our dreams can only be accomplished is
if we put our mind to it to make a better life for ourselves
no one is going to just hand you your delploma we most
work for it
t... | graduation |
13210 | VictoriaSypniewski | Together | together | Under the moonlight
Together we'll lie
Held tightly in your arms
Together you and I
Alone
Together at last
How did I ever go on without you in my past
Each moment
Sweet kiss
I simply can't resist
Everytime you touch me
I feel comeplete
When our eyes meet
My hand is yours
Together
Walking along these shor... | together |
8755 | VaibhavPandey | farAwayOnOceanDreams | ocean | Far away on the ocean dreams,
I sailed on my memories' boat
camouflaged by the misty past
and came out with a anecdote.
I found myself into tidal waves
To the twisted turn from my stormy life
With a song or two to face the stroke
I sang my way out of the constant strife... | ocean |
240 | MelvinaGermain | EarthAngel | angel | Do you know who you are, earth angel.
You leave a lasting impression,
to everyone you see and touch,
You do it at your own discretion, and
you do it oh so much.
You do not fly, you have no wings,
but you have so many other things.
You have that face of mellow, that
Melancholy way. You have a smile
that linger... | angel |
12115 | AldoKraas | StarOfTheSea | star | Star of the sea
Your home is the sea
On the bottom of the sea
You live
The sea is clear
Just like a window of a house
You can see through it
At the sea
When you look through it
You can see the bottom of the sea
Very clear
And it is
Also like a window
Star of the sea
There in your
Home are other fish
Tha... | star |
11246 | MarieLembo | YourEyesAreSmilingFromTheSky | sky | Under the gleaming stars above
For we love live and laughter
sweet heart both you and I
your cheeks just two roses
you keep a happy smile
There a golden flowers shining all the while
With two lovely blue eyes and four golden hair
My heart keep singing as if our love be forever
Spring is here there is music in t... | sky |
6918 | kellyberry | KissOfAnAngel | kiss | They were a soft kiss that he felt on his lips.
The kiss was gentle and made him fell warm.
The kiss made him fell safe and secure.
Just for the special seconds he had her in his arms.
Even then this angel who kiss him disappeared.
He knows that deep in his heart.
He had a kiss of an angel in his heart. | kiss |
8392 | DrGeetaRadhakrishnaMenon | Music1MusicAnEndearingSymphony | music | Music is sweet, endearing symphony,
Melodious rendering of subtle notes of harmony,
Melody that captures the eager, expressive, exploring mind,
Mellifluous tunes of ethereal splendour,
Magnificent aesthetic display of wonder. | music |
7625 | JoyOPateng | Lust | lust | Lust destroyed my love
Lust pushed away my one
Lust made me weak
Lust took the one love
Lust killed my happiness
Lust is a sin I committed
Lust, I shouldn't had done
Lust got my suffocating
Lust made light turn into darkness
Lust made me miss my wife
Lust, my innocent girl is hurt
Lust I hurt myself too
Lus... | lust |
1673 | GeorgeHunter | SouthsideChicagoBlues | chicago | Stumbled out of bed this mornin'
Don't know where I been.
Don't know what the haps last night
But it must have been a sin.
‘Cause today I got the lowdown blues,
The Southside Chicago mind-numbin' blues
I know my baby left me
That much I will confess.
Said I was a no-good worthless bum
And my life was in a mess... | chicago |
11461 | LukeEaster | ASoldierInTheArmyOfChrist | soldier | Are there currently trials and tribulations in your life?
Where as you’re going through a real hard time right?
You’ve prayed and asked in the name of Jesus Christ,
Chaos is still there smack dab in the middle of the fight.
Luke 22: 42, use the word of Christ Jesus, “Nevertheless, ”
1st Peter 4: 12, in place of be... | soldier |
3972 | ErnestineNorthover | TheFoodOfLove | food | What would you like for supper,
Some steak, with chips and peas,
Maybe, a nice brewed cuppa,
Or me, with lips that please.
You could have something spicy,
Like a curry or sweet and sour,
But these can be a bit spicy
And not good, at this late hour.
Perhaps a glass of beer, or shandy,
Or a brandy to fill the ga... | food |
1859 | CJHeck | PuddleStompinChildren | children | I like saying, spring has sprung.
I like the way it sounds.
And spring brings with it lots of rain,
(God's wringing out his clouds) .
Yay, rain means puddle stompin'!
After rain, they're everywhere.
No shoes or socks, I'm barefoot!
I get wet, but I don't care.
I don't think Mommy likes it
'cause I get muddy (e... | children |
1935 | DavidHarris | ChristmasPart3ChristmasDay | christmas | Christmas day arrives.
Stockings are first to be explored.
Oranges, apples and sweets.
On their beds adorn.
Mum and Dad are awoke,
at some early hour.
By children’s faces,
filled with laughter and smile.
Saying their presents,
they wish to explore.
Coloured paper and ribbons,
scattered here and there across ... | christmas |
4060 | louisrams | TheFootballJockAndTheCheerleader | football | Football jocks- they allow nothing to get in their way
Girls hearts they’d break every day.
What is a heart? But tissue and mass.
They’ll get over it, it will pass.
Life is a game and we play it to our best
If girls can’t cope then give it a rest.
Love is like football and it has
many tactics that we must learn
... | football |
1117 | WalidBoureghda | BrotherAndSisterNoMatterWhat | brother | I know so well I have made a big sin
When having said something that has hurt you.
But I came to you apologizin',
Beging your pardon with what I can do.
I let myself in the class where you are,
I spoke to you about the event;
You have shoken your head not to go far
And you have only spelled the two words « I ca... | brother |
4182 | JosephTRenaldi | ACombatFriend | friend | I am haplessly entrenched near a road,
Bogged down by the war's heavy load.
Then as I view the skirmish ahead,
My mind is overcome with a dread.
I can not envision what lies beyond,
That curve, that field, that placid pond.
Will I encounter bloodshed, captivity and tears,
Or will I overcome my deeply rooted fear... | friend |
11494 | RobertWilliamService | SoldierBoy | soldier | My soldier boy has crossed the sea
To fight the foeman;
But he'll come back to make of me
And honest woman.
So I am singing all day long,
Despite blood-shedding;
For though I know he's done me wrong,
We'll end by wedding.
My soldier boy is home again,
So bold and scathless;
But oh, my heart is numb with pain
... | soldier |
5525 | aprilbraley | IHate | hate | I hate the way you look at me
I hate the way you care
I hate the way you kiss me
I even hate your hair
I hate things you say
I hate the way you dress
I hate the way you smile
I hate the way you stress
I hate the way you sleep
I hate the way you eat
I hate the way you love me
And the way you treat me like mea... | hate |
4387 | ThomasHardy | AKingsSoliloquyonTheNightOfHisFuneral | funeral | From the slow march and muffled drum,
And crowds distrest,
And book and bell, at length I have come
To my full rest.
A ten years' rule beneath the sun
Is wound up here,
And what I have done, what left undone,
Figures out clear.
Yet in the estimate of such
It grieves me more
That I by some was loved so much
T... | funeral |
5255 | SirWalterScott | ToALockOfHair | hair | Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright
As in that well - remember'd night
When first thy mystic braid was wove,
And first my Agnes whisper'd love.
Since then how often hast thou prest
The torrid zone of this wild breast,
Whose wrath and hate have sworn to dwell
With the first sin that peopled hell;
A breast w... | hair |
7770 | MelvinaGermain | 568ACreatedMemory | memory | Walking barefoot in the sand
basking in the early morning sun,
I felt at peace with the stillness of
a quiet Sunday. Enjoying my surroundings
and the warmth of the day
My senses peaked by a faint scent
of fish filtering through the air. The feel
of a slight drizzle touched my nose every
now and then. I ... | memory |
8896 | KristenWoods | Passion | passion | It lies in all of us,
Sleeping,
Waiting
And though unwanted,
Unbidden
It will stir
Open its jaws and howl
It speaks to us, guides us
PASSION rules us all,
And we obey,
What other choice do we have?
PASSION is the source of our finest moments
The Joy of LOVE,
The Clarity of HATRED,
And the Ecstasy of GRIEF... | passion |
8065 | johntiongchunghoo | 01andTheMoonAndTheStarsAndTheWorld | moon | long walk at night
the breeze freezes my spirit
the moon warms it up
pulling at my poetic soul
the crickets sing their poems to the night
a million other insects contribute their share
to loosen up the night
for lovers, husbands and wives
while a tide of words too
creeps in all directions in my mental sphere
... | moon |
3978 | RayLucero | foodOfTheGods | food | McKenna said; “They are the food of the gods”
“Has been so for 10,000 years, more or less
Consumed by shamans and a few demigods,
‘Til Laws made psilocybin illegal to possess”
It’s hard to profit from things we need not buy
For shrooms can be found growing in the wild
Alas, Feds cannot tax what grows in a cow pie... | food |
6062 | AmyLevy | TheOldHouse | house | In through the porch and up the silent stair;
Little is changed, I know so well the ways;--
Here, the dead came to meet me; it was there
The dream was dreamed in unforgotten days.
But who is this that hurries on before,
A flitting shade the brooding shades among?--
She turned,--I saw her face,--O God, it wore
Th... | house |
3051 | EdwardLear | LimerickThereWasAnOldManWhoseDespair | despair | There was an old man whose despair
Induced him to purchase a hare:
Whereon one fine day,
He rode wholly away,
Which partly assuaged his despair. | despair |
14170 | OtteriSelvakumar | LovinglyDoTheWork | work | Work is
Life...
Life is work...
Any work is not
Wrong...
Without work is
Worng...
Human every budy works
Wny way too work...s
Work is making you...
Work is given good life
For you...and your's...
So...
Understand too work
Earn money too work...
Live life with your work...
Love too work...
Learn to do... | work |
5756 | RabindranathTagore | TheHero | hero | Mother, let us imagine we are travelling, and passing through a
strange and dangerous country.
You are riding in a palanquin and I am trotting by you on a
red horse.
It is evening and the sun goes down. The waste of Joradighi
lies wan and grey before us. The land is desolate and barren.
You are frightened and thi... | hero |
7751 | JonathanSwift | TheProgressOfMarriage | marriage | Aetatis suae fifty-two,
A rich Divine began to woo
A handsome young imperious girl,
Nearly related to an Earl.
Her parents and her friends consent,
The couple to the temple went.
They first invite the Cyprian Queen,
’Twas answered, she would not be seen;
The Graces next, and all the Muses
Were bid in form, but... | marriage |
563 | D├│nallDempsey | ListeningToMyBabyTalkForLyn | baby | Your voice
soft as a sea
washing me
in sound
leaving little
seashells in my mind. | baby |
3257 | ThomasHardy | TheDreamFollower | dream | A dream of mine flew over the mead
To the halls where my old Love reigns;
And it drew me on to follow its lead:
And I stood at her window-panes;
And I saw but a thing of flesh and bone
Speeding on to its cleft in the clay;
And my dream was scared, and expired on a moan,
And I whitely hastened away. | dream |
12555 | EdwardKofiLouis | JustKeepOnSwimming | swimming | Swimming along,
Just keep on swimming;
Swimming in the ocean with the joy of your heart!
The ocean of love,
The ocean of peace,
With the muse of the truth;
Just keep on swimming. | swimming |
1411 | AngelALockwood | CarpeDiem | carpediem | Carpe diem
Sieze the day
As I meditate
Things appears to be out of control
Yet, I shall still pursue and overtake
Anyway
Carpe diem
Is what I say
After all
Saper vedere
As I realize
that it is
mind over matter
Which helps
along the way? | carpediem |
11623 | thepoet | Sometimes | sometimes | Here I am tonight,
I know it’s not alright,
Something’s just not right…
When I look into your eyes,
I can see all the lies.
Sometimes,
I wish this not be,
Sometimes,
I don’t want to believe,
Sometimes,
That we’re not to be,
Sometimes,
When I think about our memories……
Where you,
Lock your arms around me,
... | sometimes |
6591 | GajananMishra | JoyAndJoy | joy | Joy and joy
Find joy in living
Find joy in working
And I must think
You are perfect
Joy and joy
And no way left. | joy |
3067 | WilliamShakespeare | Sonnet144TwoLovesIHaveOfComfortAndDespair | despair | Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her fo... | despair |
7586 | InnerWhispers | ILoveTheWayILoveAndLustWithYou | lust | Day in, day out, we spend precious time together
Talking and sharing things which interest each other
Night in, night out, we stay in touch
Loving each other, we feel this much.
In every talk we have, you play such a role
Amazingly giving me hints to toss a ball
You help me play BOLO chess, be on the look out it... | lust |
12132 | RaeChristensen | TheSunIsNotJustASpecialStar | star | The Sun is not just a special star
Huge balls of hot gases are stars spinning in space
So big so hot and giving heat and light to the Earth
Larger than one million Earths is the Shining Sun in front of our face.
We must never look directly at the Sun
Cos it's not fun its brightness will damage the eyes
The Sun gi... | star |
9965 | JohnKiplingLewis | AnAffairToRemember | remember | We share the same cabin while the rest of the passengers sleep.
Jack and Coke for two, we spill out our lives... our love.
Yours lost, mine found.
For the voyage we fall in love and in that cabin the stewards talk about us behind our backs. You tell me I have a special spirit, but I don't believe in such things. I... | remember |
12914 | PeterSQuinn | Thanks | thanks | Thanks for being that kind
In my heart and mind
I'll prosper your way
To give worth something to say
I call him love
Through the open sky
For he’s above
In each of my try
So much of his given
For all to feel
What time have driven
Into the real
Thanks for bringing mountain
On to the faraway
The drips of yo... | thanks |
3349 | CHARMAINESIMPSON | HearNoEvilSpeakNoEvilSeeNoEvil | evil | You left behind a bad taste in my life
Not unlike a cold cup of sour vomit.
You left behind a bad odour in my memory
Not unlike maggot infested rotting flesh.
You left behind a bad sound in my mind
Not unlike the screams of a tortured child
You left behind a bad picture behind my closed eyes
Not unlike the visio... | evil |
8071 | LiPo | AloneAndDrinkingUnderTheMoon | moon | Amongst the flowers I
am alone with my pot of wine
drinking by myself; then lifting
my cup I asked the moon
to drink with me, its reflection
and mine in the wine cup, just
the three of us; then I sigh
for the moon cannot drink,
and my shadow goes emptily along
with me never saying a word;
with no other friend... | moon |
13183 | JosephTRenaldi | RememberingTogether | together | The old, oak tree stands firm,
So full of historical memories
That only can be expressed fully
By the documented words in diaries.
Beside a tarnished statue it stands,
Its stiff old branches pointed upward
Toward the puffy, white clouds in the sky,
And some of its limbs hung downward
Above the statue's bowing h... | together |
4772 | MichaelShepherd | WhereDoYouGoGirl | girl | Where do you go, girl,
when you fall asleep?
for even when we've spent a passion's time,
you, all woman and all animal,
and then drift gently into sleep
and I to watch you drift -
you're straight away a girl again.
Do you dream a girlhood's dearest dreams?
or roam a woman's world?
What girlhood's safe, safe pl... | girl |
4391 | onziadan | AfricanFuneral | funeral | They have arrived again my friend!
To be with us again
To claim bond of relations with the deceased
As if they were blood bond relatives with the fallen blood
You see, with their crocodile faces and tears they landed
Pretending to be generous.
With their uncircumcised heart and coordinated prayers
They smell wha... | funeral |
4370 | RobertWilliamService | TheSmokingFrog | frog | Three men I saw beside a bar,
Regarding o'er their bottle,
A frog who smoked a rank cigar
They'd jammed within its throttle.
A Pasha frog it must have been
So big it as and bloated;
And from its lips the nicotine
In graceful festoon floated.
And while the trio jeered and joked,
As if it quite enjoyed it,
Impa... | frog |
1360 | RICBASTASA | NiceBrandNewCar | car | inside the nice brand new luxury car
(and hence very expensive) rides a body that drives smoothly on the
road to the sin city,
inside the tinted glass window with a remote control
screams his rotten soul.... | car |
6095 | WojjaFink | GoingHunting | hunting | Going hunting for some poets
The ones with bite and teeth
And when I find their tracks
I’ll rest a while beneath
And let their understanding
Sink deep into my bones
It could be from Mr.Homer
Or that man Mr. Jones.
And when I’ve caught a posse
Of ten maybe a score
I’ll stand them to attention
And sing them lo... | hunting |
4641 | QueenElizabethI | TheDoubtOfFutureFoes | future | The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy,
And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy;
For falsehood now doth flow, and subjects' faith doth ebb,
Which should not be if reason ruled or wisdom weaved the web.
But clouds of joys untried do cloak aspiring minds,
Which turn to rain of late repent... | future |
13002 | EricCockrell | TimeBabyJustTime | time | jail time, heroin time,
back alley shuffle time,
standing in the soup line time....
sleeping in old cars time,
day work, selling blood time,
lost your job, no work time,
lost your house, nowhere time....
get your school in prison time,
radical free thought time,
fighting against the man time...
bum a smoke, a... | time |
13110 | DavidHarris | TodayIStartedLovingYouAgain | today | There was a time when
I thought that our love was failing.
Then you got ill and nearly died,
and I found out how a lonely life would be,
so today I started loving you again.
The sun in my life began to shine again,
the roses in our garden even started to bloom,
my life began to lift me higher,
and our home is a... | today |
8725 | SamuelDaniel | SonnetIUntoTheBoundlessOcean | ocean | Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty
Runs this poor river, charg'd with streams of zeal:
Returning thee the tribute of my duty,
Which here my love, my youth, my plaints reveal.
Here I unclasp the book of my charg'd soul,
Where I have cast th'accounts of all my care:
Here have I summ'd my sighs, here I enroll
H... | ocean |
13179 | LawrenceSPertillar | OnceCompleteAndPutTogether | together | Admire those who stood with beliefs undaunted.
Those who did not choose to flaunt correctness.
Or exposed a weakened disposition.
Some have rode as passengers...
Seated with sights that ignited clearer perceptions.
Others have been treated to a scenic view.
Either way...
All will arrive at the same destination.
... | together |
7702 | EmmaLazarus | MarriageBells | marriage | Music and silver chimes and sunlit air,
Freighted with the scent of honeyed orange-flower;
Glad, friendly festal faces everywhere.
She, rapt from all in this unearthly hour,
With cloudlike, cast-back veil and faint-flushed cheek,
In bridal beauty moves as in a trance
Alone with him, and fears to breathe, to speak... | marriage |
7210 | RobertRorabeck | LonelyGodBehindMyEyes | lonely | There is a lonely God behind my eyes
Who still cries for you who are so far
Away, like a lost child forgotten who she is,
Her identity soothed away by time
So she becomes someone else’s child,
Though my God remembers how she played
Before him once or twice in the early days
Before the world was fully formed—
Th... | lonely |
1401 | SyWong | CarpeDiemIsTheTheme | carpediem | somewhere cancer is lurking
cancer is eating its way
where or when
don't know
caire pe diem is the theme. | carpediem |
11511 | DrYogeshSharma | TeacherSoldierWithAPen | soldier | Teacher is a soldier with a pen and an eternal guide
Lighting wisdom to mind decayed and white,
Floating tirelessly till dark with no pride,
Without fear and favor telling tales bright.
To clean the dirt river flows and air floats,
To vibrate heart and mind he gloats.
‘Tween goddess Sarswati and man he is linking... | soldier |
2657 | EdwardThomas | TheDarkForest | dark | Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead
Hang stars like seeds of light
In vain, though not since they were sown was bred
Anything more bright.
And evermore mighty multitudes ride
About, nor enter in;
Of the other multitudes that dwell inside
Never yet was one seen.
The forest foxglove is purple, the marguerit... | dark |
1215 | WildBillBalding | ButterflyChild | butterfly | hormonal soup
pulsing, congealing;
chrysalis carapace
throbbing, cracking;
unknown muscles
struggling, jerking
through paper jaws...
exhausted, immobile,
transformed, transfigured -
let me dry my wings. | butterfly |
12305 | GaryMcPhail | Suicide | suicide | Hang me from my sins,
Drown me in my guilt,
Swimming in a pool of blood,
From this pain I have built.
I’m caught in a trap,
A trap I cannot escape,
Its time for me to give up,
And give in to my pain.
I try to hide away,
I live alone at night,
I never want to be afraid,
of this world of life.
There eyes look... | suicide |
1448 | MrMJamal | CarpeDiem | carpediem | Swift comes the opportunity
On wings of chance sublime
We ought not to waste it in vain
May it not come again, the other time?
So grab it by any luck
Let it not be slipped loose
Master your fear, hone your senses
Moment you wait for, comes true. | carpediem |
1711 | MarilynLott | ChildhoodBooks | childhood | Most of us had childhood books
The meant so much to us long ago
We can remember the story if not the words
It seems we cannot let it go
That’s the way I feel about my favorite
Called Poppy the Four Inch Fairy
I’ve looked and looked on the internet
I’ve sent out so many queries
But nothing, my friend, have I got... | childhood |
3373 | LorenaWalker | TheEvilWithinMeBulimia | evil | there's this girl
with evil red eyes
and dark brown hair
i keep seeing her in my head
and as i rasied my head
from the toilet
i looked in the mirror
and my eyes were red
just like hers
has the demon within me
been haunting me? | evil |
6063 | SaraTeasdale | ThePoorHouse | house | Hope went by and Peace went by
And would not enter in;
Youth went by and Health wnt by
And Love that is their kin.
Those within the house shed tears
On their bitter bread;
Some were old and some were mad,
And some were sick a-bed.
Gray Death saw the wretched house
And even he passed by--
"They have never live... | house |
14020 | JimNorausky | WeddingHaiku | wedding | Nature's beauty bows
when exchanged vows radiate
pure love in their eyes. | wedding |
14257 | StephenCrane | IStoodMusingInABlackWorld | world | I stood musing in a black world,
Not knowing where to direct my feet.
And I saw the quick stream of men
Pouring ceaselessly,
Filled with eager faces,
A torrent of desire.
I called to them,
"Where do you go? What do you see?"
A thousand voices called to me.
A thousand fingers pointed.
"Look! look! There!"
I k... | world |
7825 | BobBlackwell | Memory | memory | It was a happening,
a moment in time,
some fifty years ago.
I remember
the pull on my shirt,
a plaintive voice
a cry for help,
the revulsion
that I felt.
For standing there,
Iraqi girl,
age close to seven,
dress torn,
sandals broken,
cupped hands
outstretched;
no nose,
no cheek,
no right eye.
staring... | memory |
2727 | Scarlet | ICouldBeYourDaughter | daughter | I want no more
Nothing
I want no more
Anything from you
Just let me be
I will not fight to please you
I just want to be me
I will not copy you
And make your same mistakes
For I have already learned from them
I want to be myself
I want to be free
I ask nothing of you
Please can you do the same | daughter |
3298 | ReetikaVazirani | DreamOfTheEvilServant | evil | 1.
We kept war in the kitchen.
A set of ten bone china plates, now eight.
As if a perfumed guest stole her riches . . .
The next day she wanted to leave at noon.
I said, be back by four, I'm paying you.
She sat by the door,
she put out her hand,
her knuckles knocked against mine,
hard deliberate knuckles. I ga... | evil |
724 | LaurenPhillips | BeautifulDeath | beautiful | frost bitten rain drop
watched by crystal eyes
spinning in whirl-winds
dancing across still skies
loved by many
across the feilds it flies
but even with the beauty
a broken heart dies | beautiful |
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