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My Inner Life

by Robert William Service

'Tis true my garments threadbare are,
And sorry poor I seem;
But inly I am richer far
Than any poet's dream.
For I've a hidden life no one
Can ever hope to see;
A sacred sanctuary none
May share with me.

Aloof I stand from out the strife,

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An Olive Fire

by Robert William Service

An olive fire's a lovely thing;
Somehow it makes me think of Spring
As in my grate it over-spills
With dancing flames like daffodils.
They flirt and frolic, twist and twine,
The brassy fire-irons wink and shine. . . .
Leap gold, you flamelets! Laugh and sing:
An olive fire's a lovely thing.

An olive fire's a household shrine:

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The Power Of The Dog

by Rudyard Kipling

There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie--
Perfect passion and worship fed

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O Captain! My Captain!

by Walt Whitman

O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills; 10

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Two Sunsets

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In the fair morning of his life,
When his pure heart lay in his breast,
Panting, with all that wild unrest
To plunge into the great world's strife

That fills young hearts with mad desire,
He saw a sunset. Red and gold
The burning billows surged and rolled,
And upward tossed their caps of fire.

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Recent Heart Poems

Wording Blood : verse

by Ghairo Daniels

I word the blood that freed our land

breathing opens minds which are

partly insane

popping midnight blue on cue

splattering palms moist

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MY MOM TOLD ME - ALEXIS KARPOUZOS

by alexis karpouzos

My mom told me:
the heart is not a fragile glass,
it is an ocean,
and every wave remembers.

She said:
when you walk through sorrow,
do not fear the shadows—
they are only the night’s way
of teaching you the stars.

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After death - Alexis karpouzos

by alexis karpouzos

After death,
I will not be gone—
I will be wind, touching your skin,
I will be silence, deep within.

The body fades, the name dissolves,
But the soul—
The soul returns to the rhythm of stars,
To the breath before beginnings,
To the light that dreams all forms.

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Unheard

by Md. Kausar Uddin Ahmed

If someone couldn’t hear
My silence,
The things I said
Without saying a word,
The quiet pain
I wrapped inside my stillness,
Then I don’t want
To keep them
In my noise either.

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Back into my heart

by John Hughes

I’m so glad I moved back in here
Back into my heart