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some are like water some are like the heat
some are a melody and some are the beat
sooner or later they all will be gone
why dont they stay young
its so hard to get old without a cause
i dont want to perish like a fading horse
youth is like diamonds in the sun
and diamonds are forever
so many adventures couldnt happen today
so many songs we forgot to play |
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everytime you close your eyes
it could be the time of your demise
for i am waiting for you to fall asleep
so that your soul will be mine to keep |
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i want
to entangle fingers in your hair
to find a nook in the neck
where with muted whisper
the heart contradicts the mouth
i want
to mix your name with the stars
with the blood
to be in you
to not be with you |
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deep into that darkness peering
long i stood there
wondering fearing doubting
dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before |
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sweet love sweet thorn
when lightly to my heart
i took your thrust
whereby i since am slain
and lie disheveled in the grass apart
a sodden thing bedrenched by tears and rain
while rainy evening drips to misty night
and misty night to cloudy morning clears
and clouds disperse across the gathering light
and birds grow noisy and the sun appears |
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day after day up there beating my wings
with all the softness truth requires
i feel them shrug whenever i pause
they class my voice among tentative things |
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madrugada madrugada
flowing flowering of the dawn
morning music trilling
in the evergreen trees
madrugada madrugada
spreading colors
thru the dark |
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a thing of beauty is a joy for ever
its loveliness increases it will never
pass into nothingness but still will keep
a bower quiet for us and a sleep
full of sweet dreams and health and quiet breathing
therefore on every morrow are we wreathing
a flowery band to bind us to the earth
spite of despondence of the inhuman dearth
of noble natures of the gloomy days
of all the unhealthy and oer-darkened ways |
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for me the jasmine buds unfold
and silver daisies star the lea
the crocus hoards the sunset gold
and the wild rose breathes for me
i feel the sap through the bough returning
i share the skylark's transport fine
i know the fountain's wayward yearning
i love and the world is mine |
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and it's hard to love
there's so much to hate
hanging on to hope
when there is no hope to speak of |
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a winter dream
for my flimsy dresses
a pearly dream
for my wrists
so in love with itself
the sun
it unveils its show daily
and what for the good looks
to shine
and the light |
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if you came this way
taking any route starting from anywhere
at any time or at any season
it would always be the same: you would have to put off
sense and notion you are not here to verify
instruct yourself or inform curiosity
or carry report you are here to kneel
where prayer has been valid and prayer is more
than an order of words the conscious occupation
of the praying mind or the sound of the voice praying |
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the barn opposed across the way
that would have joined the house in flame
had it been the will of the wind was left
to bear forsaken the places name |
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the will to live
the light force bursting out
everywhere
with every bit of strength
i climb skyward
the life force pumping
like a broken heart
i do not just stand in
i stand out
fearless and ready |
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for corydora who also
from dawn to dark
the mystery unfolds
slow as a strip tease
ancient as magma
the mystery unfolds
spoken ear to ear
shoulder to shoulder
have you seen it as it flows
moving everything in it's path |
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meet me by moonlight alone
and then i will tell you a tale
must be told by the moonlight alone
in the grove at the end of the vale
you must promise to come for i said
i would show the night-flowers their queen
nay turn not away that sweet head
'tis the loveliest ever was seen |
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every human
is an artist
the dream of your life
is to make
beautiful art |
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the rain and the wind the wind and the rain
they are with us like a disease
they worry the heart they work the brain
as they shoulder and clutch at the shrieking pane
and savage the helpless trees
what does it profit a man to know
these tattered and tumbling skies
a million stately stars will show
and the ruining grace of the after-glow
and the rush of the wild sunrise |
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the train will stop at the end of the track
when the journey's over there's no turning back
the rear view mirror reflecting the past
of memories precious that hopefully last
the 'all aboard' shout warns at the start
that our engine of life is about to depart
we steam through life's gorge day after day
never dreaming at all it would be a short stay
perhaps we'll be wiser when we've reached this location
when our ride's nearly over when we're in our last station |
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love
like a river
will cut a new path
whenever it meets an obstacle |
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walked out this morning
dont believe what i saw
a hundred billion bottles
washed up on the shore
seems im not alone in being alone
a hundred billion castaways
looking for a home |
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reflecting
like little flames
in the shadow |
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ere russet fields their green resume
sweet flower i love in forest bare
to meet thee when thy faint perfume
alone is in the virgin air
thy parent sun who bade thee view
pale skies and chilling moisture sip
has bathed thee in his own bright hue
and streaked with jet thy glowing lip |
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gently from the sky
landing like a sacrament
level and divine |
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something of his sad freedom
as he rode the tumbril
should come to me driving
saying the names
tollund grauballe nebelgard
watching the pointing hands
of country people
not knowing their tongue
out here in jutland
in the old man-killing parishes |
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hold on magnolia to that great highway moon
no one has to be that strong
but if you're stubborn like me
i know what you're trying to be
hold on magnolia i hear that station bell ring
you might be holding the last light i see
before the dark finally gets a hold of me
hold on magnolia i know what a true friend you've been
in my life i have had my doubts
but tonight i think i've worked it out with all of them |
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loveliest of trees the cherry now
is hung with bloom along the bough
and stands about the woodland ride
wearing white for eastertide
now of my three score years and ten
twenty will not come again
and take from seventy springs a score
it only leaves me fifty more
and since to look at things in bloom
fifty springs are little room |
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enclosed
in the fluency of my fingers
what am i and what is
my love for you
submerged in your hair
my fingers do they know
of their own skill
and does awareness of caressing
cause the growth
of the frail stalks of grass |
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i carved a face in liquor
cut with little loves and deaths
that felt the same
where rain came in
and wet the carpet
pile plush and musty
over days
and the window now down
easy bruise a mottled red
like raspberry blotted and soaking in |
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the living come with grassy tread
to read the gravestones on the hill
the graveyard draws the living still
but never anymore the dead
the verses in it say and say
the ones who living come today
to read the stones and go away
tomorrow dead will come to stay
so sure of death the marbles rhyme
yet can't help marking all the time |
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old as the world no other things so old
nay older than the world else how had sprung
such lusty strength in them when earth was young
stand valor and its passion hot and bold
insatiate of battle how else told
blind men born blind that red was fitting tongue
mute eloquent to show how trumpets rung
when armies charged and battle-flags unfurled
who sings of valor speaks for life for death
beyond all death and long as life is life |
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love is and was my lord and king
and in his presence i attend
to hear the tidings of my friend
which every hour his courtiers bring
love is and was my king and lord
and will be tho' as yet i keep
within his court on earth and sleep
encompass'd by his faithful guard
and hear at times a sentinel
who moves about from place to place |
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the lion and the unicorn
were fighting for the crown
the lion beat the unicorn
all around the town
some gave them white bread
some gave them brown
some gave them plum-cake
and kicked them out of town |
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we sat under an old thorn-tree
and talked away the night
told all that had been said or done
since first we saw the light
and when we talked of growing up
knew that we'd halved a soul
and fell the one in t'other's arms
that we might make it whole
then peter had a murdering look
for it seemed that he and she |
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from a distance the world looks blue and green
and the snow-capped mountains white
from a distance the ocean meets the stream
and the eagle takes to flight
from a distance there is harmony
and it echoes through the land
its the voice of hope its the voice of peace
its the voice of every man
from a distance we all have enough
and no one is in need |
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small god of wings
with the earth eye high
art of the flap and glide
on the waves of the belly winds |
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westerly i see clouds
bright as purest embers
clouds all diffused in light
becoming oppressively dark
yes my dreading heart tells me
now as it becomes late and still
as the sun goes down
shadows transform my soul |
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i am a book of snow
a spacious hand
an open meadow
a circle that waits
i belong to the earth
and its winter |
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who knows where the road will lead us
only a fool would say
but if you let me love you
i'm sure to love you all the way |
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to make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
one clover and a bee
and revery
the revery alone will do
if bees are few |
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i never really look for anything
what god throws my way comes
i wake up in the morning and whichever way god turns my feet i go |
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gold from the edges of the horizon flowing
a great and golden sea
the light's spilled out of heaven and flowing growing
a gold immensity
the water-bird floats on the golden water
golden her wings and crest
as she were fionnuala the king's daughter
preening a golden breast |
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light in the night
shining ever so bright
burning with delight
flames in the night |
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nature rarer uses yellow
than another hue
saves she all of that for sunsets
prodigal of blue
spending scarlet like a woman
yellow she affords
only scantly and selectly
like a lover's words |
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o gather me the rose the rose
while yet in flower we find it
for summer smiles but summer goes
and winter waits behind it
for with the dream foregone foregone
the deed foreborn forever
the worm regret will canker on
and time will turn him never
so were it well to love my love
and cheat of any laughter |
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deeper lie the roots of love
between you and i
than merest flickerings
that rise from errant sparks
and die upon the self-same winds
that raised them
sharing this in properties
we not alone conceive
but know
know to depths belying doubt |
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in the springtime joyous springtime
and we hear the murmuring brooklets
then the bees are on the wing
when the long cold days are over
bees are out to sip the dew
and the nectar from the clover
buttercups and daisies blue |
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red white yellow
pungency producing tears
weeping eyes sniffling
paper thin skin
brittle juicy within
sharp scent clinging
exhibiting growth accretions
chopped in circles
world without end |
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wealth i seek not hope nor love
nor a friend to know me
all i seek the heaven above
and the road below me |
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on thy bosom let me rest
more i would but death invades me
death is now a welcome guest
when i am laid in earth may my wrongs create
no trouble in thy breast
remember me but ah forget my fate |
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and signifies the sureness of the soul
seems to owe naught to any single cord
but strictly held by none is loosely bound
by countless silken ties of love and thought
to every thing on earth the compass round
and only by one's going slightly taut
in the capriciousness of summer air
is of the slightlest bondage made aware |
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fly away
i wish that i could fly
into the sky
so very high
i'd fly above the trees
over the seas in all degrees
to anywhere i please
let's fade into the sun
let your spirit fly
i want to fly away |
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your life is your life
dont let it be clubbed into dank submission
be on the watch
there are ways out
there is a light somewhere
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness
be on the watch
the gods will offer you chances
know them |
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i want my eyes on stalks
i want to casually glance behind me
without turning my head
to look both ways before crossing
at the same time
i want to see around a corner
before i get there
turn the corner only after
liking what i see
i want my eyestalks long |
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god pays attention to details
and i love watching them |
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the weary sun puts up a last fight for brilliance but the evening is about to engulf it
and yet another day comes to an end |
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late evening
innocent in its slow pace
lifts colours gradually
shades and changes the day
the ball of earth spins
a lit skull cap dome of blue
in mists
circles the sun
rolling in and out of light
the approaching vast cape |
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twinkle twinkle little star
how i wonder what you are |
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it is not growing like a tree
in bulk doth make man better be
or standing long an oak three hundred year
to fall a log at last dry bald and sere
a lily of a day
is fairer far in may
although it fall and die that night
it was the plant and flower of the light
in small proportions we just beauties see
and in short measures life may perfect be |
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here comes the sun
here comes the sun and i say it's all right
little darling
it's been a long cold lonely winter
little darling
it feels like years since it's been here
little darling
the smiles returning to the faces
little darling
it seems like years since it's been here |
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sing us a song you're the piano man
sing us a song tonight
well we're all in the mood for a melody
and you've got us all feelin' all right |
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'i watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky
and one by one they disappear
i wish that i was flying with them
now you're not here |
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two in love can face the world together
hearts that cuddle up will muddle through
the world may rock and rumble
crowds may groan and grumble
thrones may even tumble too
darling two in love can face the stormy weather
laugh aloud at every cloud above
and so well show them all what love can do
for you and i are two in love |
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i had a little nut tree
nothing would it bear
but a silver nutmeg
and a golden pear
the king of spain's daughter
came to visit me
and all for the sake
of my little nut tree
her dress was made of crimson
jet black was her hair |
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i had a little nut tree
nothing would it bear
but a silver nutmeg
and a golden pear
the king of spain's daughter
came to visit me
and all for the sake
of my little nut tree
her dress was made of crimson
jet black was her hair |
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silent sailing through waters still
breeze of memories in the air
mystical sea tales of old
past and present and future here
breeze of memories in the air
hypnotises all men
journey thus ends towards the sun
breeze of memories in the air
blackness drops on the sea |
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thinking with a feather
moving it round the surface
it contemplates with me
flowing helping me make decisions
lines carved deep within the metal
waiting for the ink to be pushed into them
they will tell my story forever to be seen
will someone read my story the way i drew it
or will they bring their own visions to mine creating a merger of lives |
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little fly
thy summers play
my thoughtless hand
has brushed away
am not i
a fly like thee
or art not thou
a man like me
for i dance
and drink and sing |
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shadow and pollen
atop mauve crocus petals
bespeak winter's end |
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i might mention the chemistry
the make-up beneath the face
eye shadows highlight the gleam
but one dark molecule persists
confiscates the harmony
of the whole
geology of the cheek
the salt noun tear
and a body sum of parts
relearns its nature |
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our earth is round and among other things
that means that you and i can hold completely different
points of view and both be right
the difference of our positions will show
stars in your window i cannot even imagine
your sky may burn with light
while mine at the same moment
spreads beautiful to darkness |
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the world has held great heroes
as history books have showed
but never a name went down to fame
compared with that of toad
the clever men at oxford
know all there is to be knowed
but none of them know half as much
as intelligent mr toad
the wind in the willows |
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standing on the precipice
balanced at junctions
space and time
there are no excuses here
no explanations or rhymes
locked in lavish rhythm
far beyond the brink
hid from help or rescue
on jagged edge distinct
weighty voices |
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it's not far down to paradise
at least it's not for me
and if the wind is right you can sail away
and find tranquility
the canvas can do miracles
just you wait and see
believe me
it's not far to never never land
no reason to pretend
and if the wind is right you can find the joy |
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there's a tale about the ostrich
have you ever heard it said
that when it sense danger
it just runs and hides its head
the reason that it hurries
to hide away its face
in permanent disgrace
now when noah built the ark
in those far off days of old
he took ostriches on board |
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every one is a moon
and has a dark side which
he never shows to anybody |
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you'll remember me when the west wind moves
upon the fields of barley
you'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
as we walk in the fields of gold
so she took her love for to gaze awhile
upon the fields of barley
in his arms she fell as her hair came down
among the fields of gold
will you stay with me will you be my love
among the fields of barley |
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the mask i wear shows two sides you see
the two sides that are me
black for darkness within i fight
for the hope and joy white
the love within that yearns
shines red like a flame burns
the hands weaved fear the thought of losing one dear
black is the pain of loss white is the hope ahead
red is the feeling of loved ones regained
hands open to receive ones that we've grieved |
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its mouth is wide its neck is narra
it has such long and lofty legs
i'm glad it sits to lay its eggs |
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if this book of mine fails to take a straight course
it is because i am lost in a strange region
i have no map |
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he told of the magnolia
spread
high as a cloud
high overhead |
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along the reaches of the street
held in a lunar synthesis
whispering lunar incantations
disolve the floors of memory
and all its clear relations
its divisions and precisions
every street lamp that i pass
beats like a fatalistic drum
and through the spaces of the dark
midnight shakes the memory |
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beyond this screaming shore
gulls soar zagged and buffeted
modifying flight they flip from grey
to white and light the day
with sudden and sustaining flair of wing
they fling their competent contempt
into cyclonic air's attempt
to tear them from the sky
and brilliantly defy the ancient try
of conquered gales to dash their |
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we shall have to think up signs
sketch a landscape fabricate a plan
on the double page
of day and papper
tomorrow we shall have to invent
once more
the reality of this world |
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spring really is here
everything is soft and green |
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the summertime is coming
and the trees are sweetly blooming
and the wild mountain thyme
grows around the blooming heather
will you go lassie go
and we'll all go together
to pluck wild mountain thyme
all around the blooming heather
will you go lassie go
i will build my love a tower |
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burning base of sky
half the hemisphere high
a fire hour
crept upon by night |
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peace is not something you wish for
it's something you make
something you do
something you are
and something you give away |
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the sea awoke at midnight from its sleep
and round the pebbly beaches far and wide
i heard the first wave of the rising tide
rush onward with uninterrupted sweep
a voice out of the silence of the deep
a sound mysteriously multiplied
as of a cataract from the mountain's side
or roar of winds upon a wooded steep
so comes to us at times from the unknown
and inaccessible solitudes of being |
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i will be the gladdest thing
under the sun
i will touch a hundred flowers
and not pick one |
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there in the land where the waves
break on empty shores forever
and where the moonlight makes
a sweet warm twilight hour
where the harems languid days
delight the mussulman
there an enchantress caressed me
and gave me this talisman
and caressingly she said
my talisman will not save you |
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roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean roll
ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain
man marks the earth with ruin
his control stops with the shore |
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what is the jay more precious than the lark
because his feathers are more beautiful
or is the adder better than the eel
because his painted skin contents the eye |
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i was an angel living in the garden of evil
screwed up scared doing anything that i needed
shining like a fiery beacon
you got the medicine i need
fame liquor love give it to me slowly
put your hands on my waist do it softly
me and god we don't get along |
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if you look
at a flower and realize
the power that life provides
the internal will to live
the intransigent beauty
that unfolds before our eyes
the strength masked in delicacy
the peaceful warrior spirit
unmasked and unbound
how can we not feel a part of this |
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it was on account of the flowers
that i sent off my lover to the south pole
and after i sent him off my lips hardened
and i could no longer drink from a clear spring
although i bent my head very low
it was on account of the flowers
which did not blossom
it was on account of the doves
with feathers that from sudden knowledge dimmed so much
that instead of being golden in the sun's gleam |
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leggo my leg oh
guard my skates kayt
zip my zipped zipper
its past past past late
ferris my wheels
dusk until dawn
fish in my house
snow drift my lawn
stitch all my scars
embrace my flawed face |
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in the marsh pink orchid's faces
with their coy and dainty graces
lure us to their hiding places
laugh o murmuring spring |
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the living come with grassy tread
to read the gravestones on the hill
the graveyard draws the living still
but never anymore the dead
the verses in it say and say
the ones who living come today
to read the stones and go away
tomorrow dead will come to stay
so sure of death the marbles rhyme
yet can't help marking all the time |
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when i am alone i am happy
the air is cool the sky is
flecked and splashed and wound
with color the crimson phalloi
of the sassafras leaves
hang crowded before me
in shoals on the heavy branches
when i reach my doorstep
i am greeted by
the happy shrieks of my children |
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