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What A Rose Can Say Poem by Margie Driver
A rose can say I love you and want you to be mine,A rose can say I thank you for being so very kind,A rose can say congratulations, whatever the occasion may be,A rose can say I miss you and wish you were here with me,A rose can say I'm sorry if I've hurt you in any...
Cross Poem by Langston Hughes
My old man's a white old manAnd my old mother's black.If ever I cursed my white old manI take my curses back.If ever I cursed my black old motherAnd wished she were in hell,I'm sorry for that evil wishAnd now I wish her wellMy old man died in a fine big house.My ma...
I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You Poem by Pablo Neruda
I do not love you except because I love you;I go from loving to not loving you,From waiting to not waiting for youMy heart moves from cold to fire. I love you only because it's you the one I love;I hate you deeply, and hating youBend to you, and the measure of my...
Phenomenal Woman Poem by Maya Angelou
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I'm telling lies.I say,It's in the reach of my armsThe span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl of my lips.I'm a...
New Year by Bei Dao
New Year By Bei Dao a child carrying flowers walks toward the new year a conductor tattooing darkness listens to the shortest pause hurry a lion into the cage of music hurry stone to masquerade as a recluse moving in parallel nights who's the visitor? when the days...
Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes
This was the eerie mine of souls.Like silent silver-orethey veined its darkness. Between rootsthe blood that flows off into humans welled up,looking dense as porphyry in the dark.Otherwise, there was no red. There were cliffsand unreal forests. Bridges spanning...
Aubade by Philip Larkin
Aubade By Philip Larkin I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what’s really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now, Making all...
Character of the Happy Warrior
Character of the Happy Warrior By William Wordsworth Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? —It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought:...
An Exequy by Peter Porter
Peter Porter1929-2010 "An Exequy" In wet May, in the months of change,In a country you wouldn’t visit, strangeDreams pursue me in my sleep,Black creatures of the upper deep –Though you are five months dead, I seeYou in guilt’s iconography,Dear Wife, lost...
Crusoe in England
Crusoe in England By Elizabeth Bishop A new volcano has erupted, the papers say, and last week I was reading where some ship saw an island being born: at first a breath of steam, ten miles away; and then a black fleck—basalt, probably— rose in the mate’s...
10 Letter Word Synonyms for Gratitude
A selection of 10 lettter words that are synonyms or similar to gratitude. Do you have any others to add the list? let me know in the comments below. ANSWERABLE CENSURABLE DEPENDABLE ENRAPTURED ENTHRALLED FAVOURABLE PROPITIOUS PROSPEROUS SPELLBOUND STIMULATED...
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