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The View From Halfway DownThe weak breeze whispers nothing / The water screams sublime / His feet shift, teeter-totter
@Lzzy5xs28
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Body of a WomanBody of a woman, white hills, white thighs, / you look like a world, lying in surrender. / My rough peasant's body digs in you
Pablo Neruda16
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Music in SpaceThe billowing sea / bows down dancing, / the cool one comes—
@shofi-ahmed34
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Summer in LondonBefore long the summer sun will rise in London / Like the half of the Ge meets the other half. / Like a magic by the Lamp of Aladdin
@shofi-ahmed25
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A Rose is not only for a SummerA night owl in the harvest moon / was awake till the crack of the dawn / but wasn’t surfing online, wasn’t rowing
@shofi-ahmed14
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What Can Your Idol Do?#*Can it love you like God loves you, with a love that is better than life? / Can it connect you to eternal beauty? Can it save you? Can it redeem you? / Can it lift you out of the miry pit? Can it make you clean enough to finally feel acceptable?
@alyssa-underwood27
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river of golden dreamsdust cloud heavy / in an apricot sky / cottonwood mucker
@ck-baker66
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Blood linesThere were dividing lines / between Springfield / and Mariners Gate
@ck-baker49
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VenusRecalling your name; / as each letter of your name / slips and slides off my tongue
@Styles16
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Light The SummerThe sun is with the paintbrush / ambling down the river blue. / See, your eyes are the mirror
@shofi-ahmed11
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“the sea... jeeringly...drowned the infinite of his soul...to wondrous depths...he saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom and spake it”“Moby **** Herman Melville / <•> / ~for the lost at sea~
@island-poet44
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My love, if I die and you don't--,My love, if you die and I don't--, / let's not give grief an even greater field. / No expanse is greater than where we live.
Pablo Neruda13
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The BarrierI must not gaze at them although / Your eyes are dawning day; / I must not watch you as you go
Claude McKay12
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Almond Eyes. (Part 2)(Part 1: http://hellopoetry.com/poem/738250/almond-eyes/) / Come spring, she leaped across the grassy dune. / In her ageing almond eyes, fresh wisdom strewn.
@wide-eyes21
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The River Grandlate night by the holland sill / white framed and frilled / alongside the meadow
@ck-baker46
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Physical physicsScience says that there's a mathematical equation that explains everything in life. / But I say that not even physics bears an explanation for...the guidelines of attraction. / Our primal reactions are multiplied in...the highlights of passion.
@matt-jursin25
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My MotherlandBehold Nigeria my motherland / A land that sits upon the hills of many waters / A country built on the ancient landmark of heroes band
@valentine-mbagu21
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**********Why can't we have meaningless talk / the way people have meaningless *** / you would crash over me into a
@rained-on-parade25
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River ThamesThese days have ebbed / as Love's swell was checked: / the waters in some places
@ashleyq545
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Veneziathrough the streets and column cracks / culture weaves and summer smacks / sacred figures, holy shrine
@ck-baker28
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AlwaysI am not jealous / of what came before me. / Come with a man
Pablo Neruda16
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river musici love you this morning / it's a come home safe morning / fog on the road
@TomLeveille60
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Ilion is learning the codes hidden in raindropsIlion gray / poet extraordinary / is away
@poetoftheway44
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Metaphors for Blue EyesMetaphors for blue eyes / There's one for every shade of blue / A rainbow of silken language meant to charm
@skypath20
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