oropesa Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 A Love Poem In this way sickon top the treeis what I always wanted. In this way when a treeinexplicably makes dangerand horribly becomes a treeis the exciting thing. Put your hand on my foreheadas if it were my own hand. In this way being alwayswhat I wanted in sicknessyour hand now says: on your foreheadI am inexplicably the tree: in this way I am dangerunderstood as if by your own handnecessary and exciting. - Alex Gregorio***found here Quote Link to comment
lemon Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 i've dropped my brain -- my soul is numb --the veins that used to runstop palsied -- 'tis paralysisdone perfecter on stone vitality is carved and cool.my nerve in marble lies --a breathing womanyesterday -- endowed with paradise. not dumb -- i had a sort that moved --a sense that smote and stirred --instincts for dance -- a caper part --an aptitude for bird -- who wrought carrara in meand chiselled all my tunewere it a witchcraft -- were it death --i've still a chance to strain to being, somewhere -- motion -- breath --though centuries beyond,and every limit a decade --i'll shiver, satisfied. weird emily once more... reading minds. Quote Link to comment
mystiquegirl999 Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 i just love this one. it reminds me that sometimes taking risks makes all the difference in our lives. The Road not Taken by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow woodAnd sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth Then took the other as just as fairAnd having perhaps the better claimBecause it was grassy and wanted wearThough as for that, the passing thereHad worn them really about the same And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden blackOh, I kept the first for another day!Yet, knowing how way leads onto wayI doubted if I should ever come back I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a woodAnd I took the one less traveled byAnd that has made all the difference Quote Link to comment
ButtChicKick Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Still WaitingBy Shannon M. Snyder Tomorrow comes, tomorrow goes.I'm still waiting on my toes.Holding every breath, not thinking twice.Time goes so slow, it never flies.I'm just waiting to hold you again.I pray it will happen, but I don't know when.You're so far away from me.I hear your voice in my head, but your face I can't see.I'm holding on with all that I've got. my body's growing weak, but my heart is not.I cry myself to sleep wondering where you are.I wonder if you're wondering about me, looking at the same bright star.heaven knows we are meant to be.no one else will ever complete me.you are my heart, my soul, and everything in between.I know I can't see the future, but I wish this could be seen.I would look to see how our children would grow.and how we look when we're old, moving so slow.I would laugh at how in love we still are.and the boat you drive that you call your car.but I can't see the future, deep down I wonder if you'll even come back.I hate myself for thinking it, but sometimes my heart is black.the only thing I've ever wanted is you.it's funny that you're the one thing I can't hold onto.I watch you slide from out of my grip.I cry inside, my hole world starts to slip.I know I'll make it, I'll be ok.one more day without you, what's another day?I will still wait, I know you'll come back.I won't let myself doubt it, I won't let myself crack.tomorrow comes, tomorrow goes.I'm still here waiting on my toes.holding every breath, not thinking twice.time goes so slow, it never flies. Quote Link to comment
mwah Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 A favorite from my HS days. Build Me a SonGeneral Douglas A. MacArthur Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face him self when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be;a son who will know Thee- and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge. Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here, let him learn to stand up in the storm; here, let him team compassion for those who fall. Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goals will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past. And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength. Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, "I have not lived in vain." Quote Link to comment
naked_angel Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 fire and ice some say the world will end in fire,some say in ice.from what i've tasted of desirei hold with those who favor fire.but if it had to perish twice,i think i know enough of hateto say that for destruction iceis also greatand would suffice. robert frost Quote Link to comment
lemon Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 walking aroundpablo neruda translated by robert bly it so happens i am sick of being a man.and it happens that i walk into tailorshops and movie housesdried up, waterproof, like a swan made of feltsteering my way in a water of wombs and ashes. the smell of barbershops makes me break into hoarse sobs.the only thing i want is to lie still like stones or wool.the only thing i want is to see no more stores, no gardens,no more goods, no spectacles, no elevators. it so happens that i am sick of my feet and my nailsand my hair and my shadow.it so happens i am sick of being a man. still it would be marvelousto terrify a law clerk with a cut lily,or k*ll a nun with a blow on the ear.it would be greatto go through the streets with a green knifeletting out yells until i died of the cold. i don't want to go on being a root in the dark,insecure, stretched out, shivering with sleep,going on down, into the moist guts of the earth,taking in and thinking, eating every day. i don't want so much misery.i don't want to go on as a root and a tomb,alone under the ground, a warehouse with corpses,half frozen, dying of grief. that's why monday, when it sees me comingwith my convict face, blazes up like gasoline,and it howls on its way like a wounded wheel,and leaves tracks full of warm blood leading toward the night. and it pushes me into certain corners, into some moist houses,into hospitals where the bones fly out the window,into shoeshops that smell like vinegar,and certain streets hideous as cracks in the skin. there are sulphur-colored birds, and hideous intestineshanging over the doors of houses that i hate,and there are false teeth forgotten in a coffeepot,there are mirrorsthat ought to have wept from shame and terror,there are umbrellas everywhere, and venoms, and umbilical cords. i stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes,my rage, forgetting everything,i walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic shops,and courtyards with washing hanging from the line:underwear, towels and shirts from which slowdirty tears are falling. ---------pablo's commune with us whiners of the world. Quote Link to comment
Yavanna Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 "Hope" is the Thing With Feathers "Hope" is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul—And sings the tune without the words—And never stops—at all— And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—And sore must be the storm—That could abash the little BirdThat kept so many warm— I've heard it in the chillest land—And on the strangest Sea—Yet, never, in Extremity,It asked a crumb—of Me. Emily Dickinson Quote Link to comment
mwah Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 My Heart Bled Out And Cried...Gazal Naushad When you left without a word,Without reasoning your silence,Without answering my questions,My heart bled out and cried. When I waited for you all day and all night long,During scorching summers and chilly winters,Still got no trace of you,My heart bled out and cried. When the rains came home without you,The sunshine gloomily crept through the windows,The wind blew and said you are gone,My heart bled out and cried. Yea, I know you will ne’ er come back,I hv accepted this truth and decided to move onMay be you ne ’er cared,May be you will ne’er know but…at timesMy heart still bleeds out and cries. Quote Link to comment
necromancer Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Love [pablo neruda] Because of you, in gardens of blossoming flowers I ache from theperfumes of spring. I have forgotten your face, I no longer remember your hands;how did your lips feel on mine? Because of you, I love the white statues drowsing in the parks,the white statues that have neither voice nor sight. I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice; I have forgottenyour eyes. Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to my vague memory ofyou. I live with pain that is like a wound; if you touch me, you willdo me irreparable harm. Your caresses enfold me, like climbing vines on melancholy walls. I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in everywindow. Because of you, the heady perfumes of summer pain me; becauseof you, I again seek out the signs that precipitate desires: shootingstars, falling objects. Quote Link to comment
azayco Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 It dropped so low in my regard It dropped so low in my regardI heard it hit the ground,And go to pieces on the stonesAt the bottom of my mind; Yet blamed the fate that fractured, lessThan I reviled myselfFor entertaining plated waresUpon my silver shelf. -- Emily Dickinson Quote Link to comment
moichi Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 AFTER A WHILE After a while you learn the subtle differenceBetween holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn't mean leaningAnd company doesn't mean security, And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contractsAnd presents aren't promises And you begin to accept your defeatsWith your head up and your eyes open, With the grace of a woman,Not the grief of a child And you learn to build all your roads on today,Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plansand futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After awhile you learn that even sunshineBurns if you get too much So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul,In stead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers And you learn that you really can endure...That you really are strongAnd you really do have worth,and you learn and learn...With every good bye you learn. Veronica Shoffstall, 1971 Quote Link to comment
azayco Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Spring and Fall: to a young child Margaret, are you grievingOver Goldengrove unleaving?Leaves, like the things of man, youWith your fresh thoughts care for, can you?Ah! as the heart grows olderIt will come to such sights colderBy & by, nor spare a sighThough worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;And yet you will weep & know why.Now no matter, child, the name:Sorrow's springs are the same.Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressedWhat heart heard of, ghost guessed:It is the blight man was born for,It is Margaret you mourn for. --Gerard Manley Hopkins Quote Link to comment
Guest biancaanne Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Colours ( Yevgeny Yevtushenko ) When your faceappeared over my crumpled lifeat first I understoodonly the poverty of what I have.Then its particular lighton woods, on rivers, on the sea,became my beginning in the coloured worldin which I had not yet had my beginning.I am so frightened, I am so frightened,of the unexpected sunrise finishing,of revelationsand tears and the excitement finishing.I don't fight it, my love is this fear,I nourish it who can nourish nothing,love's slipshod watchman.Fear hems me in.I am conscious that these minutes are shortand that the colours in my eyes will vanishwhen your face sets. ------------------------------- Awwwwww...geezzz Quote Link to comment
azayco Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 I Wanna Be YoursJohn Cooper Clarke let me be your vacuum cleanerbreathing in your dustlet me be your ford cortinai will never rustif you like your coffee hotlet me be your coffee potyou call the shotsi wanna be yours let me be your raincoatfor those frequent rainy dayslet me be your dreamboatwhen you wanna sail awaylet me be your teddy beartake me with you anywherei don’t carei wanna be yours let me be your electric meteri will not run outlet me be the electric heateryou get cold withoutlet me be your setting lotionhold your hair with deep devotiondeep as the deep atlantic oceanthat’s how deep is my emotiondeep deep deep deep de deep deepi don’t wanna be hersi wanna be yours Quote Link to comment
mwah Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Loyalty by Elbert Hubbard If you work for a man in heaven's name,Work for him, speak well of him,And stand by the institution which he represents. Remember an once of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, or eternally find fault, why?Resign your position and when you're on the outside, damn to your heart's content. But as long as you are a part of this institution do not condemn it,For if you do, the first high wind that comes alongWill blow you away and probably you will never know why. Quote Link to comment
BallBreaker Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 The Dentist Pulled My Tooth Out The dentist pulled my tooth outand he thought it was such funhe grabbed his pliersand dental pryersand pulled another one. "Yippee! Hooray! What awesome fun!"he shouted out with glee.He grinned a grinthen went back inand pulled out number three. Then number four and number fiveand numbers six and sevenwere followed bya cheerful cryOf "Eight! Nine! Ten! Eleven!" He took a few more from the topand some from underneath,he yanked them fastuntil at lasthe'd pulled out all my teeth. Without my teeth I cannot chew;I just eat soup and mush.But don't be sadI'm kind of glad--I'll never have to brush! --Kenn Nesbitt -dedicated to the guy who's afraid of dentists Quote Link to comment
Beach Junkie Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topazor the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never bloomsbut carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,I love you simply, without problems or pride:I love you in this waybecause I don't know any other way of lovingbut this, in which there is no I nor you,so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,so intimate that when I fall asleepit is your eyes that close. © Pablo Neruda Quote Link to comment
kingarthurII Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 After The Storm a tree fell Quote Link to comment
lovejones Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Mary had a little lamb,Her father shot it dead.Now it goes to school with her,Between two chunks of bread. Quote Link to comment
lovejones Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Simple Simon met a Pieman, going to the fair.Said Simple Simon to the Pieman,"What have you got there?"Said the Pieman unto Simon,"Pies you dickhead." Quote Link to comment
lovejones Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the king's horses and all the king's men,Said, "f#&k him, he's only an egg." Quote Link to comment
lovejones Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Old Mother HubbardWent to the cupboardTo fetch her poor dog a bone.When she bent overRover took over,And gave her a bone of his own Quote Link to comment
charmed shannen Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 The Cookie Jar Adventure Wakey-wakey from our beds,thoughts of cookies in our heads. Mom''s and Daddy''s eyes are closed.(They are sleeping. They won''t know). Hurry-hurry, on the double!If they wake, we''ll be in trouble! Blankies, pillows, on the floor.Squeaky-squeaky goes the door. Shhh, shhh, tippy-toe.To the kitchen we will go. Sneaky-sneaky down the hall,bare feet creeping ''long the wall. C''mon, Sissy, it''s not far,there it is, the cookie jar! I can''t reach it, I''m too small.Let''s get a chair to make us tall. Shuffle-shuffle, scooty chair,pushy-pushy, almost there. Clinky-clinky goes the top,hold it tight, or it will drop! Giggle, giggle, tee-hee-hee,two for YOU, and two for ME. Uh oh, Sissy, turn around ...Mom and Daddy. We''ve been found. Peeky-peeky, Mom and Dad,are you angry? Are you mad? Whisper-whisper, over there ...they want to know if we will share! VErY, VeRY Moving! Quote Link to comment
Guest foxtrotbravo Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 mary had a little lambits fleece as white as snowthe ram turned out to be a ram......mary had a little lamb (walang magawa! ) Quote Link to comment
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