Tag: Poetry

P.S. Please forgive poor grammar

BY KIM SEONG EUN 2012 Maybe you are notwake up yet. Today is anothernew day God allows us. I can’tsay I understandyour feeling totally.But I rememberedbeing your age. At that time I needto decide I livenormal life or commitfor movement. When I thoughtabout parents, I couldn’t decideeasily. I almost thinkabout death instead of gettingthrough. Even
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My Sweet Savior

By Hunter Wortham I felt so rejected, alone and sad,like an abandoned puppy left to wander a street.It was then that I realized that my life was really bad,so I disowned every challenge I happened to meet. I just gave up on trying to make others happy,so I fell in a hole that was too
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“If”

By Rudyard Kipling ( 1895) If you can keep your head when all about you       Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,    But make allowance for their doubting too;   If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,    Or being lied about, don’t deal in
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Creativity with inspiration

It’s the manifestation of creativity all inspired and masterminded by a single individual. Check out the link in bio and experience the inspiration with creativity Expecting the unexpected while sharing your words, thoughts, and possible action with a creative mind. It’s the manifestation of Creativemay, all summed up in a single video. A summary of
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September is

By Mary Jo Bang September is work to the centerOf arguments and controversies.Prejudgments and incomprehensions.What will I love if not thatThat was enigma?The years of infancy, Memory says,And there we are, with the demonOf the art of livingTraced on the glass of some window. In the beauty of the night of May,Clear of moon, to
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It’s not that

By Maureen N. Mclane It’s not that I’m opposedto poison in my lips or pig in my soap—it’s not that I’m opposed. It’s not that I’m opposedto plastic bottles that won’t decompose to malodorous phosphorus flows—it’s not that I’m opposed to what you propose—surgery on your imperfect nose favelas blastedwith hoses— it’s not that I’m
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The Choice Is Mine

By Abimbola T. Alabi Life may not let me choose my lot,But whether I’d be happy or not…That is my choice. To leave hurtful memories behindOr allow them to bother my mind…The choice is mine. To fret over a mistake when it’s doneOr learn from it and move on…The choice is mine. To be bothered
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Lift every voice and sing

BY JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Lift every voice and sing   Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has
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What Life Should Be

By Patricia A. Fleming To learn while still a childWhat this life is meant to be.To know it goes beyond myself,It’s so much more than me. To overcome the tragedies,To survive the hardest times.To face those moments filled with pain,And still manage to be kind. To fight for those who can’t themselves,To always share my
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Sonnet: I Thank You

BY HENRY TIMROD I thank you, kind and best beloved friend, With the same thanks one murmurs to a sister, When, for some gentle favor, he hath kissed her, Less for the gifts than for the love you send, Less for the flowers, than what the flowers convey; If I, indeed, divine their meaning truly,
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