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the flowers take the tears
of the weeping night
and give them to the sun
for the day's delight |
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somewhere over the rainbow
way up high
there's a land that i heard of
once in a lullaby
somewhere over the rainbow
skies are blue
and the dreams that you dare to dream
really do come true
some day i'll wish upon a star
and wake up where the clouds are far behind me |
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a gallant city has been builded far
in the pied heaven
bannered with crimson sentinelled by star
of crystal even
around a harbor of the twilight glowing
with jubilant waves about its gateways flowing
a city of the land of lost delight
on seas enchanted
presently to be lost in mist moon-white
and music-haunted |
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light worships surface
gently unlocking colour
and stepping inside |
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in this shadow there is so much sun
that i can submerge
my eyes' entirety in this golden bounty
in this rain
there is so much fair weather
that i can dry out
my wet hair stuck to my cheeks
in this day there is so much future
that my hands disappear up to the elbows
and so with my hands full of the day |
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before a secret is told one can often feel
the weight of it in the atmosphere
susan griffin
lifts and glides aloft
i fly in little drifts
sun and sometimes shade
though
in heavy air
suspense
and subtle meaning |
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little things
little drops of water
little grains of sand
make the mighty ocean
and the pleasant land
little deeds of kindness
little words of love
make our world an eden
like the heaven above |
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the tide rises the tide falls
the twilight darkens the curlew calls
along the sea-sands damp and brown
the traveller hastens toward the town
and the tide rises the tide falls
darkness settles on the roofs and walls
but the sea the sea in darkness calls
the little waves with their soft white hands
efface the footprints in the sands
and the tide rises the tide falls |
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i do not know how to say it with words
i do not pine for things with words
but with hands
enclosing space
but with blood
flowing within them
you are in my pulse
it sounds off
and comes back
to remember always |
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there is an evening coming in
across the fields one never seen before
that lights no lamps
silken it seems at a distance yet
when it is drawn up over the knees and breast
it brings no comfort
where has the tree gone that locked
earth to sky what is under my hands
that i cannot feel
what loads my hand down |
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gray sail against the sky
gray butterfly
have you a dream for going
or are you the blind wind's blowing |
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you may smile my friends but i
pursue the vision that eludes me
i run across hills and dales i wander
through nameless lands because i am
hunting for the golden stag
you come and buy in the market
and go back to your homes laden with
goods but the spell of the homeless
winds has touched me i know not when
and where |
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only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted
only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world |
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making love to you
desire is thick and heavy
my skin drinks in your touch
to quench the longing
...a sacred quest for
tantric fulfillment
i lay my head
on a pillow of clouds
as your fingertips explore my body
like nomads |
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ecsatic pain
... smells like seasoned leather and sweat in a small dark room
... tastes like blood and chocolate and masters hungry breath
... feels like red hot welts adrenaline and flying without a net
... sounds like the crack of a whip the fall of a flogger
moans of tortured pleasure
and me cummming over and over again |
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gamble everything for love gamble everything
put it in a place you keep what you need
you can gamble everything for love if youre free
you gotta gamble everything for love
baby are ya cold are ya cold baby
i could wrap you up wrap you up in my love
if you wanna you can gamble everything for love
if you wanna you can gamble everything for love
tell me are you feeling lost have you crossed
in the places that you never knew to get through |
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to fling my arms wide
in some place of the sun
to whirl and to dance
till the white day is done
then rest at cool evening
beneath a tall tree
while night comes on gently
dark like me
that is my dream
to fling my arms wide |
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in the end
we will finally belong
even more inherently than here
we will no longer be watchers
but the matter itself
flesh transposed to degrees
on a scale of radiance |
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for i'll rock you away on a silver-dew stream
and sing you asleep when you're weary
and no one shall know of our beautiful dream
but you and your own little dearie
and when i am tired i'll nestle my head
in the bosom that's soothed me so often
and the wide-awake stars shall sing in my stead
a song which our dreaming shall soften |
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i don't know what i love more
you or the longing after you
the kisses or the desire of kisses
certain gratifications
i thought that i would never again write poems
and now my heart has swelled up like a river
and stepped out of its banks like a river
and a quick stream snatches away the words
carries off the words
and they all speak of my love |
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the voyage
a boat
from its moorings
of opinion
unloops
and slips loose
the mood
of the lakes skin
carries the vessel
to the stillness |
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white wings of power one morning in may
are flying these swans back during the day
back to a place where the evening keeps the sun
alive and still shining 'cause the night is on the run
swans against the sun in a silhuette of art
are slowly reflecting that lovers are apart
white swans of beauty on a river so blue
they have their grace and they look like you |
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the snail pushes through a green
night for the grass is heavy
with water and meets over
the bright path he makes where rain
has darkened the arth's dark he
moves in a wood of desire
pale antlers barely stirring
as he hunts i cannot tell
what power is at work drenched there
with purpose knowing nothing |
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oh look at the sun as it flies away
here comes and end to yet another day
in the very last moments of its decay
it bursts forth and throws its feathers in a cloudy spray |
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in my clenched fists the gold sets into the black
and blood absorbs the azure
and low to the ground
as my body does to yours
my sky clings fast |
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out under the stars
dodging them night cars baby
cause when you gotta move you gotta move
whatever that it was
you were thinking of lady
you're certainly not thinking
of it now
and nightbirds sing you
and empty tune
in an empty house |
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out of the silver light the past came softly calling
and i remember the times we spent
inside the sad cafe
oh it seemed like a holy place
protected by amazing grace
and we would sing right out loud the
things we could not say
we thought we could change this world
with words like love and freedom
we were part of the lonely crowd |
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my lover is not at all good-looking
and his personality is rather difficult
but who will paint the sky for me
dark purple in the afternoon
if i let him go to not come back
my lover has a hot mouth
and a row of sharp teeth when he answers
smiling to the world's challenge
my lover has a mouth which waxes
in a halfmoon over each of my nights |
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just before sunset they streamed onto the beach
silent groups of people
they crossed the sand
climbed the rocks and looked out over the ocean
lost in thoughts |
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the heart of a man to the heart of a maid
light of my tents be fleet
morning awaits at the end of the world
and the world is all at our feet |
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i know you think that i shouldn't still love you
or tell you that
but if i didn't say it well i'd still have felt it
where's the sense in that
i promise i'm not trying to make your life harder
or return to where we were
i will go down with this ship
and i won't put my hands up and surrender
there will be no white flag above my door
i'm in love and always will be |
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lilacs out of the dead land mixing
memory and desire
stirring |
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alone alone all all alone
alone on a wide wide sea
and never a saint took pity on
my soul in agony |
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the fair breeze blew the white foam flew
the furrow followed free
we were the first that ever burst
into that silent sea |
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why do two colors
put one next to the other sing
can one really explain this
no just as one can never learn how to paint |
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sandpaper kisses
on a cheek or a chin
that is the way
for a day to begin
sandpaper kisses
a cuddle and a purr
i have an alarm clock
that's covered in fur |
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when my time comes i may be carried off to float
small pieces
strings
smaller than atoms
hoping to recombine
in the cosmos
to this
if you please
im abendrot
at sunset |
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the song in heart of the storm
boats of questions tempest of answers
all stranded on the island of being
but on this island who am i
neither a sailor nor a boat
nor the seafarer in search of shores
neither a wave nor the ocean itself
neither the rainbows hidden amidst the rocks
nor the footprints gathered by the shores
i do not surge forth with the waves |
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a bus load of tourists on the one street in town
out of place in this village but bringing needed funds
one tourist shop after another selling wooden clogs and windmills
you wander away in hopes to find the everyday life hidden
not the attraction built for your enjoyment
smells of appelgebak and various other hapjes
entice your senses and lead you further from the main
to streets lined with bakeries and shops where the old language is spoken
no english to be heard here
it is yelled from windows to the children playing in the street down below |
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there's a piping wind from a sunrise shore
blowing over a silver sea
there's a joyous voice in the lapsing tide
that calls enticingly
the mist of dawn has taken flight
to the dim horizon's bound
and with wide sails set and eager hearts
we're off to the fishing ground
ho comrades mine how that brave wind sings
like a great sea-harp afar |
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it is raining outside
it seems like it is ranging inside myself
it's the rain
if someone used an umbrella
would the person forget about how cold the rain is
i'm not looking at the darkness
the darkness is looking at me
before it's too late
walk together under my umbrella
before it's too late |
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my hand does the work and i don't have to think
in fact were i to think
it would stop the flow
it's like a dam in the brain that bursts |
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i want to be
i want to be around you
the subtitle fragrance
you smell in the air
the cool shade you feel
under a tree
a warm sun ray
touching your skin
a gentle sea breeze
softly sweeping over you |
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tree at my window window tree
my sash is lowered when night comes on
but let there never be curtain drawn
between you and me |
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before she became a perfect full moon
she irritated with her slender sickle
she enticed with her bent half
she would become sharp
at twilight
swelling
blossoming
she foretold
a miracle |
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stay near me -do not take thy flight
a little longer stay in sight
much converse do i find i thee
historian of my infancy
float near me do not yet depart
dead times revive in thee
thou bring'st gay creature as thou art
a solemn image to my heart
my father's family
oh pleasant pleasant were the days |
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love is like a butterfly
it goes where it pleases
and it pleases wherever it goes
love is like a butterfly
hold it too tight it'll crush
hold it too loose it'll fly |
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twisting turning
winding churning
thrilling chilling
beginning ending
ride again another day
ride it once more
hands high facing wind
life is made that way |
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may
flowers
always line your path
and sunshine light your day
may
songbirds
serenade you every step along the way
may
a rainbow
run beside you |
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you are astronomical fans of alcohol
so welcome in
you are rising in the east and setting in the west
all waving flags
are you of legal drinking age on minimum wage
well welcome in
from across the vistula you've come so very far
all waving flags
we're all waving flags now
waving flags |
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the waxing moon of eyelashes twinkled
and went out
when you blew out the match flame
and put your hands on my shoulders |
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i still find myself walking away from the water's edge before i have what i need
i turn around and walk back toward the water
sometimes two or three times as if i can't decide whether to stay or leave
i will sit down more often and yield to the giver
and when i return to my desk
i will have what i want to give |
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for every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it
for every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it
for every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it |
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i am now
and i am facing him
and i know
that he is facing me
looking at each other intensely
we are making now
it is only the day that is departing
now is |
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with spread fingers
i catch a ray
dancing on the pane
i give my parched mouth
the cool drink of day |
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god spede the plow
and send us all corne enow
our purpose for to mak
at crow of cock
of the plwlete of sygate
be mery and glade |
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my head is full of fire
and grief and my tongue
runs wild pierced
with shards of glass |
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ladybird ladybird fly away home
the field mouse is gone to her nest
the daisies have shut up their sleepy red eyes
and the birds and the bees are at rest
ladybird ladybird fly away home
the glowworm is lighting her lamp
the dew's falling fast and her fine speckled wings
will flag with the close-clinging damp
ladybird ladybird fly away home
to your house in the old hollow tree |
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but soft
what light through yonder window breaks
it is the east and juliet is the sun |
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have you observed a tuft of winged seed
that from the dandelion's naked stalk
mounted aloft is suffered not to use
its natural gifts for purposes of rest
driven by the autumnal whirlwind to and fro
through the wide element |
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when april rains make flowers bloom
and johnny-jump-ups come to light
and clouds of color and perfume
float from the orchards pink and white |
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i wish i could save you
the empty chair
i wish i could follow you
the empty chair
i wish i could
the empty chair |
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i took a day to search for god
and found him not
but as i trod
by rocky ledge
through woods untamed
just where one scarlet lily flamed
i saw his footprint in the sod |
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study nature
love nature
stay close to nature
it will never fail you |
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a violet by a mossy stone
half-hidden from the eye
fair as a star when only one
is shining in the sky
she lived unknown and few could know
when lucy ceased to be
but she is in her grave and oh
the difference to me
william wordsworth from the lost love
she was as sweet as violets in the spring |
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light comes to us by the sensibility
without visual sensibility
there is no light
no movement |
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i stood beside a pool from whence ascended
mounting the cloudy platforms of the wind
a stately heron its soaring i attended
till it grew dim and i with watching blind
when lo a shaft of arrowy light descended
upon its darkness and its dim attire
it straightway kindled them and was afire
and with the unconsuming radiance blended
and bird a cloud flecking the sunny air
it had its golden dwelling 'mid the lightning |
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i see from the darkness
as from the most brightly lit balcony
the body is a hatchet: it falls on the light
pushing it in silence
to the most naked path - to the blackness
of a time that is making
in the space my feet have trampled
an extremely slow promised
land |
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deep in the woods
on a tiny hill
overlooking a stream
i long ago found
what seemed to be
a foundation
a definate sign
that something
once was there
the open well |
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oh in spring the ever surprised brows return
they fold the bristled wings
to take up most tenderly
the lodging above your eyes
in the neighborhood of warm lips |
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a living tree that i lied
a giving tree that you lied
shadows know everything |
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life is a stream
on which we strew
petal by petal the flower of our heart
the end lost in dream
they float past our view
we only watch their glad early start
freighted with hope
crimsoned with joy
we scatter the leaves of our opening rose
their widening scope |
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hark to the whimper of the seagull
he weeps because he's not an ea-gull
suppose you were you silly seagull
could you explain it to your she-gull |
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there was a time when meadow grove and stream
the earth and every common sight
to me did seem
apparelled in celestial light
the glory and the freshness of a dream
it is not now as it hath been of yore
turn wheresoe'er i may |
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in the trees - love
in the crowds -love
in the rain
and in the sun
i was counting the seasons
until it came
now
there is only one season
spring |
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an old man going a lone highway
came at the evening cold and gray
to a chasm vast and deep and wide
through which was flowing a sullen tide
the old man crossed in the twilight dim
that sullen stream had no fears for him
but he turned when he reached the other side
and built a bridge to span the tide
old man said a fellow pilgrim near
you are wasting strength in building here |
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the sun
the hearth of affection and life
pours burning love on the delighted earth |
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it is no dream of mine
to ornament a line
i cannot come nearer to god and heaven
than i live to walden even
i am its stony shore
and the breeze that passes o'er
in the hollow of my hand
are its water and its sand
and its deepest resort
lies high in my thought |
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dear common flower that grow'st beside the way
fringing the dusty road with harmless gold
first pledge of blithesome may
which children pluck and full of pride uphold
high-hearted buccaneers o'erjoyed that they
an eldorado in the grass have found
which not the rich earth's ample round
may match in wealth thou art more dear to me
than all the prouder summer-blooms may be |
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tea does our fancy aid
repress those vapours which the head invade
and keeps that palace of the soul serene |
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she lies broken in her own despair
waiting for the angels to carry her away
''why does this hurt cry down on me
her sobs fall and sink into the deep dark soil beneath her
her legs refuse to move
she lies paralysed in her own despair
but all is not lost as the sun shines out above her
feathers float down on her
her fallen angel glides to a stop
returning the feathers to his back |
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i have nothing to say
no words to explain
and it is a litte
darker than it
was yesterday
i don't like powdered milk
it makes me sad
like it was not ment
to work that way
as if it ever would |
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you love the roses - so do i i wish
the sky would rain down roses as they rain
from off the shaken bush why will it not
then all the valley would be pink and white
and soft to tread on they would fall as light
as feathers smelling sweet and it would be
like sleeping and like waking all at once |
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perhaps of twig so fine
of twine e'en superfine
her pride aspires |
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with flowers of soul
the brightest wit can find us
we'll take a flight
towards heaven to-night
and leave dull earth behind us
should love amid
the wreaths be hid
that joy the enchanter brings us
no danger fear
while wine is near |
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hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul
and sings the tune without words
and never stops at all |
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i crossed a moor with a name of its own
and a certain use in the world no doubt
yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone
'mid the blank miles round about
for there i picked up on the heather
and there i put inside my breast
a moulted feather an eagle-feather
well i forget the rest |
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cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them
and in short i am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures |
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once i am sure there's nothing going on
i step inside letting the door thud shut
another church: matting seats and stone
and little books sprawlings of flowers cut
for sunday brownish now some brass and stuff
up at the holy end the small neat organ
and a tense musty unignorable silence
brewed god knows how long hatless i take off
my cycle-clips in awkward reverence
move forward run my hand around the font |
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a desert is full of thoughts
they loom like giant plastic
toys and blare out in mega watts
maybe it silences all but
the thoughts the crazy video tape
that boils away our lives
theres a way of seeing by not looking
its like the desert looking at you
i wish i could see myself like that
like myself might look at me |
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brave your heart
renounce your fears
locked away inside
all these years
remain in light
renounce your fears
for you have been
mesmerized
break this spell of silence |
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in the sweet sickening odor
we found lips again
very small-fry lost
in the monstrous setting sun |
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i caught a little wormy
a crawling up a tree
he wiggled here
he wiggled there
he wiggled right at me
i put him in a shoebox
and told him stay right there
but when i opened up the box
a butterfly was there
i don't know how it happened |
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pluck this little flower and take it delay not i fear lest it
droop and drop into the dust
i may not find a place in thy garland but honour it with a touch of
pain from thy hand and pluck it i fear lest the day end before i am
aware and the time of offering go by
though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint use this flower
in thy service and pluck it while there is time |
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i am the mist the impalpable mist
back of the thing you seek
my arms are long
long as the reach of time and space
some toil and toil believing
looking now and again on my face
catching a vital olden glory
but no one passes me
i tangle and snare them all
i am the cause of the sphinx |
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the morning-glory's blossoming
will soon be coming round
we see their rows of heart-shaped leaves
upspringing from the ground |
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i shall foot it
down the roadway in the dusk
where shapes of hunger wander
and the fugitives of pain go by
i shall foot it
in the silence of the morning
see the night slur into dawn
hear the slow great winds arise
where tall trees flank the way
and shoulder toward the sky |
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when i have seen by time's fell hand defaced
the rich-proud cost of outworn buried age
when sometime lofty towers i see down-razed
and brass eternal slave to mortal rage
when i have seen the hungry ocean gain
advantage on the kingdom of the shore
and the firm soil win of the watery main
increasing store with loss and loss with store
when i have seen such interchange of state
or state it self confounded to decay |
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when the lamp is shattered
the light in the dust lies dead
when the cloud is scattered
the rainbow's glory is shed
when the lute is broken
sweet tones are remembered not
when the lips have spoken
loved accents are soon forgot |
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in a dark room
you are all alone
feeling sad and sorrow
your eyes shedding salty tears
your heart suffocated by gloom
you think everything has ended
every other door is sealed
you feel lost and abandoned
no one there to wipe off your tear
all of a sudden you hear a voice |
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