if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven or a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but it will be a heaven of blackred roses my father will be(deep like a rose tall like a rose) standing near my swaying over her (silent) with eyes which are really petals and see nothing with the face of a poet really which is a flower and not a face with hands which whisper This is my beloved my (suddenly in sunlight he will bow, and the whole garden will bow)
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Related XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until y... E.E. CUMMINGS Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled wit... ELLEN HOPKINS somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: E.E. CUMMINGS You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Let my heiress have full rights, Live in my house, sing songs that I composed. Yet how slo... ANNA AKHMATOVA STAINS With red clay between my toes, and the sun setting over my head, the ghost of ... BRENDA SUTTON ROSE You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It ... AGATHA CHRISTIE sometimes i don't know, which moment which cool gust of wind will come, and enchant me SANOBER KHAN A WISH Sometimes I wish that he will live and I will see him. But m... COCO J. GINGER I’d rather be a heart, keeping my body alive and well although I tend to get lost someti... HKL you were and always will be that first ever touch to have fertilized the g... SANOBER KHAN Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuria... ANNA AKHMATOVA A grim expression came over Syah’s face. “The colt you speak of lost its mother during a storm. ... D.M. RAVER ...so i will greet you in a way all loved things are meant to be greeted w... SANOBER KHAN It happens all the time in heaven, And some day It will begin to happen Again o... شمس الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter... PABLO NERUDA there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitute... JOHN GREEN my love for you will always be like a mountain stream. quiet. persis... SANOBER KHAN We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life MEGAN MCCAFFERTY I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Beauty is frightening," they will tell you — Lazily you will arrange A Spani... ALEXANDER BLOK THE WEATHER OF LOVE Love Has a way of wilting Or blossoming At the s... SUZY KASSEM A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: “Aren’... PAULO COELHO I was told The average girl begins to plan her wedding at the age of 7 She picks the color... RUDY FRANCISCO LOVE IS A FLOWER Treat your relationship As if you are growing The most beautif... SUZY KASSEM It offends me when you doubt my love. These jealousies are unwarranted. If only you lived ... KAMAND KOJOURI It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of ... HELEN KELLER since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never whol... E.E. CUMMINGS I keep my kindness in my eyes Gently folded around my iris Like a velvety, brown blanket... SANOBER KHAN TO ALL MANKIND Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you.... SUZY KASSEM The day will come When my body no longer exists But in the lines of this poem I will ... SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO You are going, Jane?" "I am going, sir." "You are leaving me?" "Yes... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Looking for Your Face From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your fac... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI As I said, you have mistaken me for another. London is full of drab little peahens, sir. Now, then, ... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Sonnet 130 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Wind Will Carry Us In my night, so brief, alas The wind is about to meet the lea... FOROUGH FARROKHZAD GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying : And this same flower that smil... ROBERT HERRICK My child, I know you're not a child But I still see you running wild Between those floweri... ANTONIA MICHAELIS Come, my friends, 'T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in or... ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I feel his arm Lightly Over me. He takes one of my outstretched hands. Draws i... STASIA WARD KEHOE SEA OF LIFE This is not the end, my friend. Just as the ocean sings songs to infinit... SUZY KASSEM CALL YOURSELF Look deep in the mirror And say: 'I LOVE YOU' And immediately SUZY KASSEM O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that th... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses ... SARA TEASDALE Love Was Love Will Be But Most of All, Love is. Life Cannot Be Without It I... CINDY MARTINUSEN COLOMA Volunteers Many will be shocked to find, When the day of judgement nears, That there's a s... ANON. Last night the rain spoke to me slowly, saying, what joy to come falling MARY OLIVER Though critics may bow to art, and I am its own true lover, It is not art, but heart, which win... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, you look like a world, lying in surrender. My ... PABLO NERUDA T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sou... ALFRED TENNYSON My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the... ROMAN PAYNE Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouth... CLEMENTINE VON RADICS I'm Writing my stoy. But i'm also plotting my escape from this prison cell. This is my pl... CAROLEE DEAN In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all... MAYA ANGELOU THOMAS Guilty Of mankind. I have perpetrated human nature. My father and... CHRISTOPHER FRY To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, an... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Across the years I will walk with you - in deep green forests; on shores of sand: and when... ROBERT SEXTON I am a creature of the Fey Prepare to give your soul away My spell is passion and it is ... HEATHER ALEXANDER DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is giv... ANNE CARSON My hair is not the shiniest of bobs My eyes are not the brightest in the room My figure wi... NANCY N. RUE Buckley followed the three of them into the kitchen and asked, as he had at least once a day, “Whe... ALICE SEBOLD Pretty Song" From the complications of loving you I think there is no end or return.... MARY OLIVER tread carefully into my life, my dear. the currents are strong. you... SANOBER KHAN POLONIUS My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Faith is not to believe Or pray that Providence Will help a chieve Anything we wan... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES A Woman's Question Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing Ever made by t... JOSHUA HARRIS Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night; Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,<... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume ADYASHANTI Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not ... ELLEN HOPKINS Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins ... ALFRED TENNYSON Your daughter is ugly. She knows loss intimately, carries whole cities in her belly. ... WARSAN SHIRE Child, child, love while you can The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man; Never fea... SARA TEASDALE Raeanne Mirror, Mirror When I look into a mirror, it is her face I see. ELLEN HOPKINS I promise I'll never tell." "Don't promise that," he said in an ultraserious voice. "If t... JERI SMITH-READY If You Forget Me I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: PABLO NERUDA Butterfly Kisses Aged imperfections stitched upon my face years and years of wi... MUSE God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the ... WILLIAM COWPER The Children's Hour Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning t... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten w... CHARLES BUKOWSKI in the afterglow of an evening rain i lay down in the grass and think of ... SANOBER KHAN I wrote a poem to the moon But no one noticed it; Although I hoped that late or soon Someo... ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE I will be my undoing If I become my obsession. I will forget the ones I love If I do ... VERONICA ROTH Jerusalem! My Love,My Town I wept until my tears were dry I prayed until the candles... نزار قباني Perhaps ... To R.A.L. Perhaps some day the sun will shine again, And I shall s... VERA BRITTAIN I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. ... DAWNA MARKOVA This is what I am, I'll say, to leave this written excuse. This is my life. Now it is clea... PABLO NERUDA I think of you often and make no outward show, But what it means to lose you, no one will ... ANON. It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom y... EDGAR ALLAN POE Songs of the Soul On a dark night, Inflamed by love-longing - O exquisite risk!... SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be dam... CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've l... NICHOLAS SPARKS When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let ... PAUL MCCARTNEY And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of al... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even ... MARY OLIVER American Wedding In america, I place my ring on your cock where it belon... ESSEX HEMPHILL Linger now with me, thou Beauty, On the sharp archaic shore. Surely 'tis a wastrel's dut... MERVYN PEAKE MOM Wholeheartedly, She loved me- And inspired me- With transcending devot... GIORGE LEEDY
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