#brand
A strong hand in the soil, a heart calm and kind,
António, the wine of soul and mind.
He left too soon, but roots remain,
In fields where sunsets softly proclaim:
There is love in the Douro, with honor and pride,
And finches sing with joy far and wide.
Maria, sweet mother, like a ripened grape,
Tender yet strong, with a healing shape.
In vineyard shade and her glowing gaze,
She loves her children all her days...
From her — my heart, my deepest fire —
Was born this love for wine,
Without me ever asking or desire.
Victoria Marques, the name I chose with care,
A name of love — a fate we share.
Daughter, your grandparents, António and Maria,
Kept your dream in their hearts with pure euphoria!
A toast to memory, a kiss to the land,
And a toast as well to my daughter’s hand —
To Victoria.
Victor Marques
Douro Valley
Jul 7, 2025
Jul 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM UTC
Lawrence Hall, HSG
[email protected]
You Are Not Something Burnt into the **** of a Cow
So many people want to be brands
I hope you are not a brand
I want to read your words, not your brands
You are a poet
You are not a label on a tin of tomatoes
Or something burnt into the **** of a cow
Jun 26, 2024
Jun 26, 2024 at 6:24 PM UTC
POETRY:
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Evoking feelings one thought they couldn't possibly ever feel since, well, the beginning of time.
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Jul 13, 2021
Jul 13, 2021 at 12:48 PM UTC
Welcome to corporate America
Take your seat
First of all,
We want to let you know
We appreciate you
You will be an asset
To our growing team of industry
Pay no mind to the construction
We are building ca.. Cubicles
For you are now a part of a team.. Our team
So settle into your seat
We want you to feel empowered
To grow beyond these walls
But stay in your seat
Remain focused
Please don’t put up any pictures on your cubicles
We don’t want you to be distracted
We don’t want you to remember freedom
Stop watching the clock
For your time is our time
We expect you to be an ambassador for our products
On and off the clock
The best advertising is free advertising
And we expect you to give up everything
So we can plaster our company logo across your chest
Have you thought about your brand?
How do you plan to sell yourself.. Back to us
To prove you are worth something
You see we own you now
Stay in your seat
We are building these cages for your own good
Your own good
Is to keep on task
Don’t ask questions
Just accept these walls
We read somewhere the latest work environment is a tomb
We empower you to do exactly what we say
Us corporations are individuals
And we want to let you know
We appreciate you
Enough to strip away your identity
Pluck away the vowels of your name
And make you a number
What is your brand?
You need to keep us interested in you
Don’t rattle your cages
Stay seated, keep focused
Let us break your back
Break you down
To keystrokes and metrics
Us corporations are individuals
And you are company assets now
We want to empower you
By taking away your choices
Your job will be what we say it is
So just do it
I know we told you the job would be one thing
But our needs and desires are always evolving
And we want to consume you
Devour every bit of your talent
What is your brand?
Have you thought about just tattooing our company motto
Across your chest?
Stay in your seat and stop rattling your cages
And whatever you do
Don’t climb up and over the walls
For you are a company asset now
Jan 6, 2021
Jan 6, 2021 at 2:14 AM UTC
My mother told me to leave my mark
wherever I went.
When I asked her what did she mean,
She told me,
How she wanted me to leave
my name and my brand
as a symbol and signature
of my 'identity'.
'Identity', how would it look like...
Will it be tall so that it can
reach success even without climbing up.
Will it be hour-glass with curves
large enough to be liked.
Will it be fair so that it can be lonely too.
Will it be rich so that it can purchase Bugatti and Bentley.
Will it be smart so that it can create its success if it is not provided with any.
Will it be beautiful so that it can make people stop and stare.
Will it be kind so that it heals and saves what has been killed.
Or will it be soft so that it weighs every word before it speaks?
But then my mother told me your identity is 'you'.
But I cannot become my identity because I am not a signature to be looked at or a mark to be left.
So when I looked up in the dictionary
I found how mark is synonymous for
1.Stain
that I got on my sweatpant this morning.
2.Bruise
that has covered my neck like a mosaic painting.
3.Scratch
that has been carved on my legs by my own hands.
4.Blemish
that I have thrown on my parent's name and 'identity'.
5.Blot
that has covered my pages and hands because my pen is broken.
6.Scar
that stays on my heart.
7.Label
that I have put on myself and let others call me by it.
8.Identity
that I do not have.
My mother told me to leave my mark wherever I went.
But, wherever I went,
I gained one.
Jul 2, 2020
Jul 2, 2020 at 2:16 AM UTC
It is a brand new year
Time refreshing once more
I wonder what changes lie ahead
What 2020 has in store
May 6, 2020
May 6, 2020 at 11:58 PM UTC
Work on you brand God intended for you.
Focus building a team with the same goals as you.
Become an asset with your spouse who believes in your creativity.
Don't come around if you're only a liability.
Key to success is faith, focus, & being fierce.
Not a "9-5" job that includes a 4-year degree.
At the end of the day,
It really is what you know & who you know that becomes important.
Pay attention to all signs & don't forget this message in the morning.
Apr 10, 2020
Apr 10, 2020 at 10:56 PM UTC
I wanna break free from my humanity
I wanna release the animal in me
Break free from your curiosity
You're gonna give me what I need
I've got blood on my hands
No guilt on my conscience
The war in your path, the *** in your violence"
All of my flaws, I wear 'em with honor
A purple heartbreak for all we've suffered
I am the enemy
Jun 18, 2019
Jun 18, 2019 at 3:17 PM UTC
Calling me.
Leaving me messages saying how you’re sorry.
Voice mailbox is full, it’s exhausting.
Texting me.
Repeating feelings you already expressed.
At this point, I don’t know what you expect.
Changes.
You swear you’ve been going through some changes.
You wanna know what I find strange is?
You were better the way you were.
But you wanted to be somebody.
Made me think I was nobody.
Hooking up with girls at parties.
Only cared when I was departing.
Now I’m becoming somebody.
Now you wanna love my body.
But you shouldn't love nobody.
‘Cause you’re just gonna hurt somebody.
It’s not fair, don’t make me say this.
Don’t try to make me reminisce.
We can’t go back to fish and chips.
We can’t get back that rooftop kiss.
You don’t get it, you don’t get it.
This dream you have of us, forget it.
I’m someone new, someone new.
And you’re just someone that I knew.
Apr 16, 2019
Apr 16, 2019 at 3:40 PM UTC
When the trouble has come
And chase me with a gun
Makes me feel such as dumb
There is no escape cause i'm blind
but i hope still can see the sun
I try everything but i can't
I try to run
To reach something that i can find
That maybe can replace this numb
I don't need those thumbs
All i need is just the one
Someone please rescue me from this hunt
When i face the valley i just wanna jump
Show me the way so i can stay calm
Teach me how to be bright and shine
Cause i believe a new day will come
And bring me some more fun
Feb 25, 2019
Feb 25, 2019 at 1:35 AM UTC
Rain.
The only time I don't feel alone because the Earth is crying too.
Tomorrow, the Sun will appear and everything I feel in this moment will disappear.
Rinse my soul and I shall be brand new
Sep 3, 2018
Sep 3, 2018 at 11:13 PM UTC
ive worn a brand my entire life
that’s been
stamped across my forehead.
i believe that
everyone can see it,
painted red with little girl blood.
all my life people have taken chunks
from me, and all my life,
i’ve given people chunks.
i believe that maybe if i were different
i would be perfect.
im cruel, and im sorry.
Jun 23, 2018
Jun 23, 2018 at 4:10 AM UTC
We will meet them with our brand new crowns.
I wish they'd seen us lose our expensive graces in divine nights.
Did they find their soul or lost it along with their maps.
Either way, we'd still walked beyond the line.
May 30, 2018
May 30, 2018 at 5:34 AM UTC
everyone is supposed to have a brand
there’s the mom friend
the emo friend
the funny friend
but what am I?
I’m not quite the bookworm brand
not enough sweaters and shyness
and far too many hours on the internet
I’m not quite the movie nerdy girl
not getting contacts and taming my hair
to start dating the star football player
I’m not rude enough to be the rebel
I’m not nice enough to be the good girl
I’m not outgoing enough to be the leader
I’m not smart enough to be the geek
I’m not something enough to be anything
And if that’s true
my brand is nothing
I’m nothing
Apr 19, 2018
Apr 19, 2018 at 7:15 AM UTC
Why does everything ache?
All I feel is searing pain
It's driving me insane
Keeping me awake
In this world that is tougher
Within this dark
I curse this mark
That makes me suffer
Mar 27, 2018
Mar 27, 2018 at 8:10 PM UTC
By Arcassin Burnham
Everglade, Everglade,
Positivity won't prosper as long as the negative comes first,
Put your lives on the line for some cheddar to know in the end that it will hurt,
People place many scars all on their back after learning what their friends just went through,
Nobody knows your true feelings but you, bitch you aint see through,
You'll be you foreverglade,
Refrigerated your heart for giving reason,
Cry about the same **** everyday and every season,
Let the little things you love just fly you away to a place where the demons can't
Catch or call on your name,
You shouldn't give up on the faith for no reason, Everglade,
Let me put it in words you understand,
I'm not in a competition with no man,
The overly passive aggressive teams fails,
And just all hail to the righteous man,
The men that fight for families and knows to take a stand,
Not a bully that hangs you up from by your pants,
Lifes too complicated, I just can not brand,
Everglade, Everglade.
Oct 26, 2017
Oct 26, 2017 at 12:41 PM UTC
By Arcassin Burnham
Don't tell me you can't be seen me.....
Cause I did nothing wrong to you,
Stop looking for some clarity.....
Nothing but a piece of residue,
On the ground,
May the lovers be one and found like the grey stone in the elders
Temple while clearly seeing your reflection,
I had no remorse for feeling any animosity,
for me to get away from the human race permanently,
Latching onto nothing that was never real.......
I was trying to bring you along for the ride but you gave on me
Simply for another's direction,
And in the end it was just pure cruelty,
I went into this new world with a cup of tea and broken dreams in
Smoke signals that never were really released,
I swear I told them all that Diamond Valley was real,
Don't tell me you can't be seen me.....
Cause I did nothing wrong to you,
Stop looking for some clarity.....
Nothing but a piece of residue,
I want you,
I could hear them calling for miles to pull me away,
we brand you,
There's no doubt in my mind my life's a mess but I stepped into
Heaven's Gates.
No more love,
No more love.
Sep 19, 2017
Sep 19, 2017 at 11:43 AM UTC
I can't keep
Regretting
Your dream of us
Never came true
While my dream
For myself
Is being realized
By someone else.
I can't keep
Going back
To our conversations,
Our only memories;
While I move forward
With him
To make the moments
You and I never had.
I can't keep
Confessing
The truth
To the questions
You never asked
While he provides
The same answers
I never got from you.
I can't keep
Telling myself
This is the last time
I will write
About you
While I keep promising
I will write
About him
And you can't keep
Reserving me
With a bookmark
So you can read me
Later for recreation
While he tries
To memorize me
Everyday as a ritual
Nov 14, 2014
Nov 14, 2014 at 3:55 AM UTC
My love, my sweetheart you are so sweet and so smart
When glass faces glass ,mirror reflects your every part
Whatever glowing beauty has to offer and has to impart
In chain of beauty and love eyes talk to eyes,heart to heart
My miss I miss you and your glowing style and charm
Your beautiful glance makes me to dance and to inform
Eyes have their own cherished graces and mirror its norm
My burning beauty let me explore your graces without harm
Beauty of your body surpasses every girl on this waste land
I want to establish my rapport on your frequency and band
Allow me to kiss on your glowing rosy cheeks hand in hand
Your glowing beauty is so grand my burning love is my brand
Col Muhammad Khalid Khan
Copyright 2016 Golden Glow
Jun 17, 2016
Jun 17, 2016 at 8:23 AM UTC
Close your eyes,
Think once or twice
Open your heart,
Make a brand new start
Feb 10, 2016
Feb 10, 2016 at 2:34 PM UTC