NEGATIVE POEMS

Interim

The room is full of you!-As I came in
And closed the door behind me, all at once
A something in the air, intangible,
Yet stiff with meaning, struck my senses sick!-
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Edna St. Vincent Millay

If Only You Were Still Alive...

I wouldn't have been this toxic
I wouldn't have been this cold-hearted
I wouldn't have been this negative
I wouldn't have been this sensitive
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Nonkululeko Ngcobo

Power Of Words

Words are very powerful that
It cut deeper than a swords,
The cuts of words are irreparable and,
The blow with swords can be cured.
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Norbu Dorji

In All Ways A Woman

In my young years I took pride in the fact that luck was called a lady. In fact, there were so few public acknowledgments of the female presence that I felt personally honored whenever nature and large ships were referred to as feminine. But as I matured, I began to resent being considered a sister to a changeling as fickle as luck, as aloof as an ocean, and as frivolous as nature. The phrase 'A woman always has the right to change her mind' played so aptly into the negative image of the female that I made myself a victim to an unwavering decision. Even if I made an inane and stupid choice, I stuck by it rather than 'be like a woman and change my mind.'

Being a woman is hard work. Not without joy and even ecstasy, but still relentless, unending work. Becoming an old female may require only being born with certain genitalia, inheriting long-living genes and the fortune not to be run over by an out-of-control truck, but to become and remain a woman command the existence and employment of genius.

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Maya Angelou

Its Power

It’s what makes the hummingbirds sing
It’s what makes that the inner core of my being grow wings
Grow wings yes and fly to heights never before discovered
Bask in feelings so intense that nothing, no one else mattered
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Fitzgerald Matthew

Oaks Tutt

My mother was for woman's rights
And my father was the rich miller at London Mills.
I dreamed of the wrongs of the world and wanted to right them.
When my father died, I set out to see peoples and countries
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Edgar Lee Masters

To Mr. F. Now Earl Of W

No sooner, FLAVIO, was you gone,
But, your Injunction thought upon,
ARDELIA took the Pen;
Designing to perform the Task,
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Anne Kingsmill Finch

Four Riddles

I

There was an ancient City, stricken down
With a strange frenzy, and for many a day
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Lewis Carroll

Petition

Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving all
But will his negative inversion, be prodigal:
Send to us power and light, a sovereign touch
Curing the intolerable neural itch,
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W. H. Auden

Negative Love

I never stoop'd so low, as they
Which on an eye, cheeke, lip, can prey,
Seldom to them, which soare no higher
Than vertue or the minde to'admire,
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John Donne

Nature Can Do No More

1673

Nature can do no more
She has fulfilled her Dyes
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Emily Dickinson

Spring Comes On The World'

1042

Spring comes on the World-
I sight the Aprils-
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Emily Dickinson

The Merchant Of The Picturesque

1131

The Merchant of the Picturesque
A Counter has and sales
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Emily Dickinson

Avon's Harvest

Fear, like a living fire that only death
Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes
Been witness for so long of an invasion
That made of a gay friend whom we had known
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Edwin Arlington Robinson

One More Day

At night the moon is looking at its phosphorescent reflection in the sea,
And seagulls are unruffled sleeping on the rocks
Only the waves caressing the sand i can hear,
In the magic silence of a sultry summer night.
.....

Cristina Teodor

Wishes For A Little Girl

What would I ask the kindly fates to give
To crown her life, if I could have my way?
My strongest wishes would be negative,
If they would but obey.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Worth While

It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Upon Nothing

Nothing, thou elder brother even to shade,
That hadst a being ere the world was made,
And (well fixed) art alone of ending not afraid.

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John Wilmot

Rural Life In England - Prose

Oh! friendly to the best pursuits of man,
Friendly to thought, to virtue and to peace,
Domestic life in rural pleasures past!
- COWPER.
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Washington Irving

The Improvisatore - Or, `john Anderson, My Jo, John'

Scene - A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining.

Katharine. What are the words?

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From The Conflict Of Convictions

The Ancient of Days forever is young,
Forever the scheme of Nature thrives;
I know a wind in purpose strong-
It spins against the way it drives.
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Herman Melville

Invitation To Miss Marianne Moore

From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning,
     please come flying.
In a cloud of fiery pale chemicals,
     please come flying,
.....

Elizabeth Bishop

Tender Buttons [objects]

A CARAFE, THAT IS A BLIND GLASS.

A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading.

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Gertrude Stein

At Thurgarton Church

To the memory of my father

At Thurgarton Church the sun
burns the winter clouds over
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George Barker

Upon Nothing

Nothing, thou elder brother even to shade,
That hadst a being ere the world was made,
And (well fixed) art alone of ending not afraid.
Ere time and place were, time and place were not,
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Lord John Wilmot

Improvisatore, The

Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining.

Katharine. What are the words ?

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Palatine

Leagues north, as fly the gull and auk,
Point Judith watches with eye of hawk;
Leagues south, thy beacon flames, Montauk!

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John Greenleaf Whittier

The Dead To Clemenceau:

NOVEMBER, 1929
Come (we say) Clemenceau.
Why should you live longer than others? The vacuum that sucked
Us down, and the former stars, draws at you also.
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Robinson Jeffers

The Improvisatore

Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining.

Katharine. What are the words ?

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Appeasement Of Demeter

I

Demeter devastated our good land,
In blackness for her daughter snatched below.
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George Meredith

An Epistle To Joseph Hill, Esq.

Dear Joseph,-- five and twenty years ago--
Alas! how time escapes -- 'tis even so!--
With frequent intercourse and always sweet
And always friendly we were wont to cheat
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William Cowper

Limbo

The sole true Something--This ! In Limbo Den
It frightens Ghosts as Ghosts here frighten men--
For skimming in the wake it mock'd the care
Of the old Boat-God for his Farthing Fare ;
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life

Life like the vaulters of pain
They say, it can be sweet
and it can be dead bitter
Which have I learnt the
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Bazimya Brian

____still Strong And Sound____

Nothing can block my smile
Thinking upright is comparative
Keeping organic, enough is my bile
Relinquished all negative motives
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Ssempaka Sencious Stevens

Guru Devotion

Emanation of all Buddha
Comprises in root teacher
Relying to enlighten one
You become all knowing.
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Norbu Dorji

Girl You're Phenomenal

Insecurity,obscurity
ride you like a trojan horse
your beauty hidden betwixt
the negative social clamor.
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Bwesigye Laurent

Discriminators

You make everyone
worthless,priceless
and they take it
out of fear,
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Primrose Dube

Frustration

You come to me as a fear
You force me to utilize my brain ,
I feel so sorrow which is my near
I don't know how i lost my gain .
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Ayesha Khanom

Forgive...if You Will

This is me...
Drinking beer.
To make sure i don't see clear.
Will you forgive me Mom.?
.....

Melissa Taylor

Recipe For A Parson:

To a cupful of negative goodness
Add the pleasure of giving advice.
Sift in a peck of dry sermons,
And flavor with brimstone or ice.
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Unknown

Cases - Pollard V. Photographic Company

(40 Chancery Division, 345)

"Shall I take your photograph, my pretty maid?"
"You may if you like, kind sir," she said.
.....

James Williams

One Day And Another A Lyrical Eclogue Part I - Late Spring

Part I - Late Spring


Part I
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Madison Julius Cawein

Choose

If you choose to live
then choose to leave. Leave
Your negative thoughts and not your thinking
that makes you a better human being.
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Pravallika Pandu

Don't Dilute Foolish Talks

Don't Dilute The Negative Speculations Of People,
For Every Living Must Be Studied,
Behavioral And Otherwise.
Not All Philosophers give reasonable Theories,
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Emmanuel Arinze

Quote To Myself.

Treasure each moment you find happiness.
Cherish yourself always.
Remember your Happy place,
Outside watching the stars.
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Nandi Nonjiwu

My Poems

Some critics say I compose good poems,
Others regard my work as nonsense
My poems can interest or bore you
It depends on how you view the words
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Marlon Pitter

Hope

For some days now
Have notice so many post from friends
In my community
And those far away
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Tim Justin

Phases Of An Act

Even if we analyse
The reasons for hunting
We will realise
There are not the conditions twice
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Mashhuda Zaki

We Should Be Strong

We should face the world by being bright
In the past we should put out fright
We need to be calm and kind
Friends full of negative thoughts we should never mind
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Ezra Onyancha

I'm Going To Love You Constantly

Love will not change,
Feeling alone like the wind,
Wasting away my future,
Pining for love,
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Marlon Pitter