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The Sunlight On The Garden

by Louis Macneice

The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
We cannot cage the minute
Within its nets of gold;
When all is told
We cannot beg for pardon.

Our freedom as free lances
Advances towards its end;
The earth compels, upon it

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The Mississippi River Empties Into The Gulf

by Lucille Clifton

and the gulf enters the sea and so forth,
none of them emptying anything,
all of them carrying yesterday
forever on their white tipped backs,
all of them dragging forward tomorrow.
it is the great circulation
of the earth's body, like the blood
of the gods, this river in which the past
is always flowing. every water
is the same water coming round.

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Fern Hill

by Dylan Thomas

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light.

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Sun

by Michael Palmer

Write this. We have burned all their villages

Write this. We have burned all the villages and the people in them

Write this. We have adopted their customs and their manner of dress

Write this. A word may be shaped like a bed, a basket of tears or an X

In the notebook it says, It is the time of mutations, laughter at jokes,
secrets beyond the boundaries of speech

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Everybody Is Doing It

by Benjamin Zephaniah

In Hawaii they Hula
They Tango in Argentina
They Reggae in Jamaica
And they Rumba down in Cuba,
In Trinidad and Tobago
They do the Calypso
And in Spain the Spanish
They really do Flamenco.

In the Punjab they Bhangra

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Recent Time Poems

oh? so you still believe in linear time?

by atef ayadi

she,
ah!!
hemm?
wow!!

me,
emm.
ahem ahem ahem.
ahem!!
ha!

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Green Days

by Evelyn Judy Buehler

warm green days have come
and candy striped rainbow skies
buttercup surprise

bee visits red rose
near the house of gold treasure ~
sweet beyond measure

purple lilies please
through sparkling emerald days

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Forever to Daze

by Darris van-Hoxen

to feel the universe
with its maths will immerse
by the pit on top
declared
the time we cannot stop

i found the time
it was right here
just behind your ear
what do you mean

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Time Marches On

by Aloo Denish Obiero

Time marches on, through dusk and dawn.
Time marches on, through silence and song.

Time marches on, unmoved by pleasure and pain.
Time marches on, unmoved by grief and glory.

Time marches on, past valor and vanity.
Time marches on, past fame and fall.

Time marches on, beyond triumph and tragedy.

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I am

by Ghairo Daniels

I AM

I am that I am
SourceLight within my Innermost Heart
unique fractal of Divinity
ever evolving spiralling ascending
deathless ageless
is my Soul

I am that I am

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