..poetry's most powerful lines ever written...

Lena-lovecraft

"It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, 'Yes.'
~ The Invitation, Oriah Mountain Dreamer

kaklehot

Distant Love

My Love in a billion
Can't be here this day
Alone here this Christmas
But knowing one day

Our Love oh so precious
No words can describe
How so much I want to
Be there by your side

When all is so quiet
I lie here alone
And remember the things
That remind me of home

Your beautiful smile
So honest and true
Not one thing but thousands
Remind me of you

My darling my sweet
My one true Love's heart
Has been mine for the keeping
Right there from the start

Your voice pure and loving
A thought I hold dear
I long for the comfort
When you hold me near

Things change in an instant
Some people may say
But our Love Is forever
Right here to stay

- Nicholas Deasington -

kaklehot

A Friend's Greeting

I'd like to be the sort of friend that
you have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that
you've been always glad to be;

I'd like to mean as much to you
each minute of the day
As you have meant, old friend of mine,
to me along the way.

I'd like to do the big things and
the splendid things for you,
To brush the gray from out your skies
and leave them only blue;

I'd like to say the kindly things that
I so oft have heard,
And feel that I could rouse your soul
the way that mine you've stirred.

I'd like to give you back the joy
that you have given me,
Yet that were wishing you a need
I hope will never be;

I'd like to make you feel as rich as I,
who travel on
Undaunted in the darkest hours with you to
lean upon.

I'm wishing at this time that I
could but repay
A portion of the gladness that
you've strewn along my way;

And could I have one wish this year,
this only would it be:
I'd like to be the sort of friend
that you have been to me.

- Edgar A Guest -

kaklehot

Friends

A friend is someone we turn to
when our spirits need a lift.
A friend is someone we treasure
for our friendship is a gift.
A friend is someone who fills our lives
with beauty, joy, and grace.
And makes the whole world we live in
a better and happier place.

- Jean Kyler McManus -

Lena-lovecraft

As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there!
He wasn't there again today,
Oh how I wish he'd go away!"

When I came home last night at three,
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall,
I couldn't see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door...

Last night I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn't there,
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away...

~ Antigonish, William Hughes Mearns

kaklehot

THE LIFE OF A CUPCAKE

They put me in the oven to bake.
Me a deprived and miserable cake.
Feeling the heat I started to bubble.
Watching the others I knew I was in trouble

They opened the door and I started my life.
Frosting me with a silver knife.
Decorating me with candy jewels.
The rest of my batch looked like fools.

Lifting me up, she took off my wrapper.
Feeling the breeze, I wanted to slap her.
Opening her mouth with shiny teeth inside.
This was the day this cupcake had died.

-Shelby Greer-

akuperatijee

The Rose Family - Robert Frost

The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is, and so's
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose -
But were always a rose.

akuperatijee

Family First - Poem by Bonnie B Long
Friends may come and friends may go
Family is first and this I know
Putting friends first is a mistake
And not one that you should make

Family’s forever and this I know
Friends enter your life and then they go
Making friends is fun trust me with this
But not something you would miss

Love your family while they are here
Keep their love very near
Family can leave the world at any time
So don’t make yourself feel like slime

Family is here to comfort you
I know your friends do this too
Without your family you would be lost
Hold on to them no matter the cost

akuperatijee

"And when wind and winter harden,
All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand."

To My Wife, Oscar Wilde

akuperatijee

"Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge."

Dulce et Decorum est, Wilfred Owen

akuperatijee

"Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell,
Rode the six hundred."

The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred Lord Tennyson

reginagrace

If it's food,
It's food;
Never mind what kind of food.

When I ponder my mind
I consistently find
It is glued
On food.

~ Ogden Nash, The Clean Plater

reginagrace

'Dear friends, we surely all agree
There's almost nothing worse to see
Than some repulsive little bum
Who's always chewing chewing gum.

~ Roald Dahl

reginagrace

There's No Earthly Way Of Knowing

There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction they are going!
There's no knowing where they're rowing,
Or which way they river's flowing!
Not a speck of light is showing,
So the danger must be growing,
For the rowers keep on rowing,
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing...

~ Roald Dahl

pelicano

Some reckon their age by years,
Some measure their life by art;
But some tell their days by the flow of their tears
And their lives by the moans of their hearts.

~Abram Joseph Ryan~

carlis

Aku tak perlu pada kata kata halus
Yg satu aku mahu kau tulus
Andai benar hatimu berkata 'aku'
Tunjuk aku dimana letaknya 'aku'

Mungkin...

Kau tetap kau
Dan aku tetap aku...
Selalu berbalah
Tapi tetap satu

Mungkin... Atau tak mungkin..

Aku di posisi yg benar
Atau
Aku yg tersalah tafsir

Tunjukan mana letaknya 'aku'

#BukanCabarTapiTercabar

adore_a_a

Glad sight wherever new with old
Is joined through some dear homeborn tie;
The life of all that we behold
Depends upon that mystery.
Vain is the glory of the sky,
The beauty vain of field and grove
Unless, while with admiring eye
We gaze, we also learn to love.


Glad sight wherever new with old
William Wordsworth
1842

reginagrace

Kahlil Gibran on Love

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden.

513172

I dont normally enjoy reading poem, tp tgk org2  punya knowledge about poetry totally impressed me..kagum dgn jiwa seni yg korang sume ada

reginagrace

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.


~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses