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Artist
He gave a picture exhibition,
Hiring a little empty shop.
Above its window: FREE ADMISSION
Cajoled the passers-by to stop;
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Robert Service
He gave a picture exhibition,
Hiring a little empty shop.
Above its window: FREE ADMISSION
Cajoled the passers-by to stop;
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Robert Service
Lancelot 08
For longer war they came, and with a fury
That only Modred's opportunity,
Seized in the dark of Britain, could have hushed
And ended in a night. For Lancelot,
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
For longer war they came, and with a fury
That only Modred's opportunity,
Seized in the dark of Britain, could have hushed
And ended in a night. For Lancelot,
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
Progress In The Pacific
Lapp'd in blue Pacific waters lies an isle of green and gold,
A garden of enchantment such as Eden was of old;
And the innocent inhabitants, pure children of the sun,
Resembled those of Eden, tooâ??in more respects than one.
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James Brunton Stephens
Lapp'd in blue Pacific waters lies an isle of green and gold,
A garden of enchantment such as Eden was of old;
And the innocent inhabitants, pure children of the sun,
Resembled those of Eden, tooâ??in more respects than one.
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James Brunton Stephens
Your Dimension Of Greatness
No one can know the potential,
Of a life that is committed to win;
With courage - the challenge it faces,
To achieve great success in the end!
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Anonymous Americas
No one can know the potential,
Of a life that is committed to win;
With courage - the challenge it faces,
To achieve great success in the end!
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Anonymous Americas
Preamble (a Rough Draft For An Ars Poetica)
Let's get our dreams unstuck
The grain of rye
free from the prattle of grass
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Jean Cocteau
Let's get our dreams unstuck
The grain of rye
free from the prattle of grass
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Jean Cocteau
Wasted
Each day another soldier in the van,
Each day a new young worker in the fields,
And every day more plenteous harvest-yields
From human toil, to bless and not to ban -
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Ada Cambridge
Each day another soldier in the van,
Each day a new young worker in the fields,
And every day more plenteous harvest-yields
From human toil, to bless and not to ban -
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Ada Cambridge
Sonnet Vi
Give me the treble of thy horns and hoofs,
The ponderous undertones of 'bus and tram,
A garret and a glimpse across the roofs
Of clouds blown eastward over Notre Dame,
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Alan Seeger
Give me the treble of thy horns and hoofs,
The ponderous undertones of 'bus and tram,
A garret and a glimpse across the roofs
Of clouds blown eastward over Notre Dame,
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Alan Seeger
Lydia Dick
When I was a boy at college,
Filling up with classic knowledge,
Frequently I wondered why
Old Professor Demas Bently
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Eugene Field
When I was a boy at college,
Filling up with classic knowledge,
Frequently I wondered why
Old Professor Demas Bently
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Eugene Field
Moeurs Contemporaines
I
Mr. Styrax 1
Mr. Hecatomb Styrax, the owner of a large estate and of large muscles,
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Ezra Pound
I
Mr. Styrax 1
Mr. Hecatomb Styrax, the owner of a large estate and of large muscles,
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Ezra Pound
Don Juan: Canto The Fourteenth
If from great nature's or our own abyss
Of thought we could but snatch a certainty,
Perhaps mankind might find the path they miss--
But then 'twould spoil much good philosophy.
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George Gordon Byron
If from great nature's or our own abyss
Of thought we could but snatch a certainty,
Perhaps mankind might find the path they miss--
But then 'twould spoil much good philosophy.
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George Gordon Byron
Mortal Shower
I met my butt in a Pittsburgh
hotel room. My face
still looks like my face
but not my butt, my hair
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Bob Hicok
I met my butt in a Pittsburgh
hotel room. My face
still looks like my face
but not my butt, my hair
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Bob Hicok
The Icecream People
the lady has me temporarily off the bottle
and now the pecker stands up
better.
however, things change overnight--
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Charles Bukowski
the lady has me temporarily off the bottle
and now the pecker stands up
better.
however, things change overnight--
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Charles Bukowski
Death Is Potential To That Man
548
Death is potential to that Man
Who dies-and to his friend-
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Emily Dickinson
548
Death is potential to that Man
Who dies-and to his friend-
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Emily Dickinson
That Short'potential Stir
1307
That short-potential stir
That each can make but once-
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Emily Dickinson
1307
That short-potential stir
That each can make but once-
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Emily Dickinson
Death Is Potential To That Man
548
Death is potential to that Man
Who dies—and to his friend—
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Emily Dickinson
548
Death is potential to that Man
Who dies—and to his friend—
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Emily Dickinson
The Squanderer
God gave him passions, splendid as the sun,
Meant for the lordliest purposes; a part
Of nature's full and fertile mother heart,
From which new systems and new stars are spun.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
God gave him passions, splendid as the sun,
Meant for the lordliest purposes; a part
Of nature's full and fertile mother heart,
From which new systems and new stars are spun.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
An Explanation Of America: A Love Of Death
Imagine a child from Virginia or New Hampshire
Alone on the prairie eighty years ago
Or more, one afternoonâ??the shaggy pelt
Of grasses, for the first time in that childâ??s life,
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Robert Pinsky
Imagine a child from Virginia or New Hampshire
Alone on the prairie eighty years ago
Or more, one afternoonâ??the shaggy pelt
Of grasses, for the first time in that childâ??s life,
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Robert Pinsky
Thirty Sonnets: Sonnet 06
Give me the treble of thy horns and hoofs,
The ponderous undertones of ‘bus and tram,
A garret and a glimpse across the roofs
Of clouds blown eastward over Notre Dame,
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Alan Seeger
Give me the treble of thy horns and hoofs,
The ponderous undertones of ‘bus and tram,
A garret and a glimpse across the roofs
Of clouds blown eastward over Notre Dame,
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Alan Seeger
Profit And Loss
Each day a new sword flashes in the van;
Another leader, brave to do or die,
Comes forth, full- furnished for the strife whereby
He gains his growth and stature as a man.
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Ada Cambridge
Each day a new sword flashes in the van;
Another leader, brave to do or die,
Comes forth, full- furnished for the strife whereby
He gains his growth and stature as a man.
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Ada Cambridge
The Wander-lovers
Down the world with Marna!
That's the life for me!
Wandering with the wandering wind,
Vagabond and unconfined!
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Bliss Carman And Richard Hovey
Down the world with Marna!
That's the life for me!
Wandering with the wandering wind,
Vagabond and unconfined!
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Bliss Carman And Richard Hovey
Reservations Confirmed
The ticket settles on my desk: a paper tongue
pronouncing "Go away;" a flattened seed
from which a thousand-mile leap through the air can grow.
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Charles Harper Webb
The ticket settles on my desk: a paper tongue
pronouncing "Go away;" a flattened seed
from which a thousand-mile leap through the air can grow.
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Charles Harper Webb
The Boiling Water
A serious moment for the water is
when it boils
And though one usually regards it
merely as a convenience
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Kenneth Koch
A serious moment for the water is
when it boils
And though one usually regards it
merely as a convenience
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Kenneth Koch
Apostrophe
O world, thou art the form, the name, the symbol of my weariness:
But, older than thy drooling god, mine ennui had its prime abode
Potential in the fathomless, foreshaping yawn of night and flame.
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Clark Ashton Smith
O world, thou art the form, the name, the symbol of my weariness:
But, older than thy drooling god, mine ennui had its prime abode
Potential in the fathomless, foreshaping yawn of night and flame.
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Clark Ashton Smith
To Beauty
A Fragment
Beauty, whose all-potential hand
Forever holds the fertile stars in fee,
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Clark Ashton Smith
A Fragment
Beauty, whose all-potential hand
Forever holds the fertile stars in fee,
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Clark Ashton Smith
Desultory Thoughts On Criticism - Prose
"Let a man write never so well, there are now-a-days a sort of persons they call critics, that, egad, have no more wit in them than so many hobby-horses: but they'll laugh at you, Sir, and find fault, and censure things, that, egad, I'm sure they are not able to do themselves; a sort of envious persons, that emulate the glories of persons of parts, and think to build their fame by calumniation of persons that, egad, to my knowledge, of all persons in the world, are in nature the persons that do as much despise all that, as, a, In fine, I'll say no more of 'em!" REHEARSAL.
All the world knows the story of the tempest-tossed voyager, who, coming upon a strange coast, and seeing a man hanging in chains, hailed it with joy, as the sign of a civilized country. In like manner we may hail, as a proof of the rapid advancement of civilization and refinement in this country, the increasing number of delinquent authors daily gibbeted for the edification of the public.
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Washington Irving
"Let a man write never so well, there are now-a-days a sort of persons they call critics, that, egad, have no more wit in them than so many hobby-horses: but they'll laugh at you, Sir, and find fault, and censure things, that, egad, I'm sure they are not able to do themselves; a sort of envious persons, that emulate the glories of persons of parts, and think to build their fame by calumniation of persons that, egad, to my knowledge, of all persons in the world, are in nature the persons that do as much despise all that, as, a, In fine, I'll say no more of 'em!" REHEARSAL.
All the world knows the story of the tempest-tossed voyager, who, coming upon a strange coast, and seeing a man hanging in chains, hailed it with joy, as the sign of a civilized country. In like manner we may hail, as a proof of the rapid advancement of civilization and refinement in this country, the increasing number of delinquent authors daily gibbeted for the edification of the public.
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Washington Irving
The Funeral.
That short, potential stir
That each can make but once,
That bustle so illustrious
'T is almost consequence,
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
That short, potential stir
That each can make but once,
That bustle so illustrious
'T is almost consequence,
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Born Before His Time
Brown was weeping; likewise cursing; and with amplitude of reason;
For a letter had been handed him that very afternoon
Which proved he had been cruelly begotten out of season,
That, in fact, he had been born a hundred centuries too soon.
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James Brunton Stephens
Brown was weeping; likewise cursing; and with amplitude of reason;
For a letter had been handed him that very afternoon
Which proved he had been cruelly begotten out of season,
That, in fact, he had been born a hundred centuries too soon.
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James Brunton Stephens
Sir Hornbook
I.
O'er bush and briar Childe Launcelot sprung
With ardent hopes elate,
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Thomas Love Peacock
I.
O'er bush and briar Childe Launcelot sprung
With ardent hopes elate,
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Thomas Love Peacock
Artist
He gave a picture exhibition,
Hiring a little empty shop.
Above its window: FREE ADMISSION
Cajoled the passers-by to stop;
.....
Robert William Service
He gave a picture exhibition,
Hiring a little empty shop.
Above its window: FREE ADMISSION
Cajoled the passers-by to stop;
.....
Robert William Service
The Dread Of Height
Not the Circean wine
Most perilous is for pain:
Grapes of the heavens' star-loaden vine,
Whereto the lofty-placed
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Francis Thompson
Not the Circean wine
Most perilous is for pain:
Grapes of the heavens' star-loaden vine,
Whereto the lofty-placed
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Francis Thompson
The Great Sunset
A flight of six heavy-motored bombing-planes
Went over the beautiful inhuman ridges a straight course northward;
the incident stuck itself in my memory
More than a flight of band-tail pigeons might have done
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Robinson Jeffers
A flight of six heavy-motored bombing-planes
Went over the beautiful inhuman ridges a straight course northward;
the incident stuck itself in my memory
More than a flight of band-tail pigeons might have done
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Robinson Jeffers
A Prayer To The Father Of Heaven
O radiant luminary of light interminable,
Celestial Father, potential God of might,
Of heaven and earth O Lord incomparable,
Of all perfections the essential most perfite !
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John Skelton
O radiant luminary of light interminable,
Celestial Father, potential God of might,
Of heaven and earth O Lord incomparable,
Of all perfections the essential most perfite !
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John Skelton
Two Infants Ii
A prince stood on the balcony of his palace addressing a great multitude summoned for the occasion and said, "Let me offer you and this whole fortunate country my congratulations upon the birth of a new prince who will carry the name of my noble family, and of whom you will be justly proud. He is the new bearer of a great and illustrious ancestry, and upon him depends the brilliant future of this realm. Sing and be merry!" The voices of the throngs, full of joy and thankfulness, flooded the sky with exhilarating song, welcoming the new tyrant who would affix the yoke of oppression to their necks by ruling the weak with bitter authority, and exploiting their bodies and killing their souls. For that destiny, the people were singing and drinking ecstatically to the heady of the new Emir.
Another child entered life and that kingdom at the same time. While the crowds were glorifying the strong and belittling themselves by singing praise to a potential despot, and while the angels of heaven were weeping over the people's weakness and servitude, a sick woman was thinking. She lived in an old, deserted hovel and, lying in her hard bed beside her newly born infant wrapped with ragged swaddles, was starving to death. She was a penurious and miserable young wife neglected by humanity; her husband had fallen into the trap of death set by the prince's oppression, leaving a solitary woman to whom God had sent, that night, a tiny companion to prevent her from working and sustaining life.
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Khalil Gibran
A prince stood on the balcony of his palace addressing a great multitude summoned for the occasion and said, "Let me offer you and this whole fortunate country my congratulations upon the birth of a new prince who will carry the name of my noble family, and of whom you will be justly proud. He is the new bearer of a great and illustrious ancestry, and upon him depends the brilliant future of this realm. Sing and be merry!" The voices of the throngs, full of joy and thankfulness, flooded the sky with exhilarating song, welcoming the new tyrant who would affix the yoke of oppression to their necks by ruling the weak with bitter authority, and exploiting their bodies and killing their souls. For that destiny, the people were singing and drinking ecstatically to the heady of the new Emir.
Another child entered life and that kingdom at the same time. While the crowds were glorifying the strong and belittling themselves by singing praise to a potential despot, and while the angels of heaven were weeping over the people's weakness and servitude, a sick woman was thinking. She lived in an old, deserted hovel and, lying in her hard bed beside her newly born infant wrapped with ragged swaddles, was starving to death. She was a penurious and miserable young wife neglected by humanity; her husband had fallen into the trap of death set by the prince's oppression, leaving a solitary woman to whom God had sent, that night, a tiny companion to prevent her from working and sustaining life.
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Khalil Gibran
A Shower In War-time
Rain, rain, sweet warm rain,
On the wood and on the plain!
Rain, rain, warm and sweet,
Summer wood lush leafy and loud,
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Sydney Thompson Dobell
Rain, rain, sweet warm rain,
On the wood and on the plain!
Rain, rain, warm and sweet,
Summer wood lush leafy and loud,
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Sydney Thompson Dobell
Some Blind Eidolon
Longer ago than Eden's oldest morn,
Ere beast or man was born,
I chose for mine
The love whereto some ancient evil clings,
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Clark Ashton Smith
Longer ago than Eden's oldest morn,
Ere beast or man was born,
I chose for mine
The love whereto some ancient evil clings,
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Clark Ashton Smith
Ode To Matter
O tissued fabric of the frame of things,
Thou art an alternating tide,
And Life a moment's foam
Thy shifting wave upflings.
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Clark Ashton Smith
O tissued fabric of the frame of things,
Thou art an alternating tide,
And Life a moment's foam
Thy shifting wave upflings.
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Clark Ashton Smith
The Wander-lovers.
Down the world with Marna!
That's the life for me!
Wandering with the wandering wind,
Vagabond and unconfined!
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Bliss Carman (william)
Down the world with Marna!
That's the life for me!
Wandering with the wandering wind,
Vagabond and unconfined!
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Bliss Carman (william)
Worth
We must learn to realise what we are worth if we are willing to learn something essential
The level of success that we want to achieve is seen by the determination that we have to pull something off
The pace at which we are going to obtain a level of success is often seen through the things that we do to benefit ourselves
When we are sure that we have made it we do not need any favours over the things that we have accomplished
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Reatlegile Marumolwa
We must learn to realise what we are worth if we are willing to learn something essential
The level of success that we want to achieve is seen by the determination that we have to pull something off
The pace at which we are going to obtain a level of success is often seen through the things that we do to benefit ourselves
When we are sure that we have made it we do not need any favours over the things that we have accomplished
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Reatlegile Marumolwa
A Stroll In The Graveyard
I took a stroll in the graveyard.
And I marvel at the history lessons I learnt.
It was just a stroll in the graveyard.
Quite an unusual intent.
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Mthandazo Mkhwananzi
I took a stroll in the graveyard.
And I marvel at the history lessons I learnt.
It was just a stroll in the graveyard.
Quite an unusual intent.
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Mthandazo Mkhwananzi
The Potential Of Nothingness
Much ado about nothing and its fame,
or more to consider about the same.
The to and fro by carousel thought,
heaving and dashing caught.
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Robert Rittel
Much ado about nothing and its fame,
or more to consider about the same.
The to and fro by carousel thought,
heaving and dashing caught.
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Robert Rittel
Hills
Sometimes I feel like I am in the hills when I am with some people
I feel as though there is a connection with green but I am not sure which green it is
Everywhere I go all I see is green because I am attracted to learning about it
I wish I can maneuver through the course of discovering my potential of becoming green
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Reatlegile Marumolwa
Sometimes I feel like I am in the hills when I am with some people
I feel as though there is a connection with green but I am not sure which green it is
Everywhere I go all I see is green because I am attracted to learning about it
I wish I can maneuver through the course of discovering my potential of becoming green
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Reatlegile Marumolwa
Afraid
This is a fact
Fear is part of human nature
Fear comes after us like the floods of waterfall
Have you noticed fear only comes after us to be a barrier block
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Abongile Eric
This is a fact
Fear is part of human nature
Fear comes after us like the floods of waterfall
Have you noticed fear only comes after us to be a barrier block
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Abongile Eric
A Potential Romance
In the past, I told many girls that I loved them,
But most of them didn’t love me.
Now I love other attractive girls,
But I haven’t told them about my love yet.
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Marlon Pitter
In the past, I told many girls that I loved them,
But most of them didn’t love me.
Now I love other attractive girls,
But I haven’t told them about my love yet.
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Marlon Pitter
Adopted
I am not one of the professional writers
But I wish to write a poem or two by joining together some letters,
What I want to write I don't know
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Abdulsalam Oyinlola
I am not one of the professional writers
But I wish to write a poem or two by joining together some letters,
What I want to write I don't know
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Abdulsalam Oyinlola
Poetic Pain
Despite the writing skill
The drive,ambition and will
Sometimes I feel
I should just give up and kneel
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Leo Mbalamana
Despite the writing skill
The drive,ambition and will
Sometimes I feel
I should just give up and kneel
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Leo Mbalamana
Defectives
Standards and rules like a cage set boundaries for ourselves
And stifles individuality
When one falls out of these boundaries,we call him defective
Different and unconforming,we set them aside
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Nathan Assan
Standards and rules like a cage set boundaries for ourselves
And stifles individuality
When one falls out of these boundaries,we call him defective
Different and unconforming,we set them aside
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Nathan Assan
Unlimited Potential
To get to the world of thy desires
Fully must thee exert thy potentials
–Nothing changes unless thee do–
To seat and whine with not a glide
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Awoke Godswill
To get to the world of thy desires
Fully must thee exert thy potentials
–Nothing changes unless thee do–
To seat and whine with not a glide
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Awoke Godswill
Unlimited Potential 1
Never a thought of chance conceive
For thou comes to the earth a filled ink:
To write the course thy life may sieve;
And it to work as the day doth blink.
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Awoke Godswill
Never a thought of chance conceive
For thou comes to the earth a filled ink:
To write the course thy life may sieve;
And it to work as the day doth blink.
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Awoke Godswill
Free Bird
Some thoughts in the corner of my mind,
Stays silent like the task unsigned.
Tempo never fades some dumb thoughts,
Instead it builds up an empire of rot's.
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Sakshi Seth
Some thoughts in the corner of my mind,
Stays silent like the task unsigned.
Tempo never fades some dumb thoughts,
Instead it builds up an empire of rot's.
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Sakshi Seth