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The Life That I Have

by Leo Marks

The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours

The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have

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Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 21

by Saadi Shirazi

A virtuous and beauteous youth
Was pledged to a chaste maiden.
I read that in the great sea
They fell into a vortex together.
When a sailor came to take his hand,
Lest he might die in that condition,
He said in anguish from the waves:
‘Leave me. Take the hand of my love.’
Whilst saying this, he despaired of life.
In his agony he was heard to exclaim:

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Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 13

by Saadi Shirazi

When all the artifices of an enemy have failed he shakes the chain of friendship, and thereon performs acts of friendship which no enemy is able to do.

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by Friedrich Schiller

Thee would I choose as my teacher and friend. Thy living example
Teaches me,--thy teaching word wakens my heart unto life.

Harvest Hymn

by Sarojini Naidu

Mens Voices:

LORD of the lotus, lord of the harvest,
Bright and munificent lord of the morn!
Thine is the bounty that prospered our sowing,
Thine is the bounty that nurtured our corn.
We bring thee our songs and our garlands for tribute,
The gold of our fields and the gold of our fruit;
O giver of mellowing radiance, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Surya, with cymbal and flute.

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Recent Life Poems

Belhel

by Ghairo Daniels

“Abandon all Hope, yea who enters Here” : Dante

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Die to raucous capitalist lottery chaos
fundamentalist radio 24/7
to smell dead sleep
a snore knowing no cloudless sky
die to enamel pots smelling of lamb fear cooked
parrot screaming for fruit

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Mouldy Fear Fugue : inspired by Paul Celan’s Death Fugue

by Ghairo Daniels

she drinks mouldy fear in morning
the morning needing vit C vit C
team Alice alliterates twig pieces to be
to be sprouting green leaves true blue
sweeping bits onto dustpan hue true
grit to cubes which only they read heed
using time making dough row seed
painting faces so cute for pic to be >
> it is only puc across their screen see

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A Sigh of Relief

by Arthur E Knowles

Came into this world crying,
I'll probably leave the same way.

But I did smile and laugh
Many times—
In my long parade of days.

I've loved,
Been betrayed,
Spoke words

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Breath Of November

by Arthur E Knowles

It's a cold, rainy November day
as I stand among the graves.
The misty fog hugs the earth,
covering the stones with an eerie, ghostly shroud.

This part of the cemetery is wildly overgrown,
matted with dead leaves of autumns long ago.
Moss covers the markers,
turning them into final headstones of the unknown.

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The shadow of the wall

by Mario Odekerken

If you can stand straight when the hidden nets are cast,
and watch the structures where the silent truths are passed,
if you can keep your stride while history turns away,
yet feel the asymmetric chill at break of day,
then you have built the fortress that the empire made,
a stoic mind that walks unflinching through the shade.

But in the shadow of that heavy,stone-faced wall,
a whisper ripples through the chorus of them all.
"I can't hear you anymore,can't touch you anymore,"

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