- We are accused of terrorism
If we dare to write about the remains of a homelandby Nizar Qabbani 86 lines, 4 comments - To live as gently as I can;
To be, no matter where, a man;by Edgar Albert Guest 24 lines, 9 comments - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,by Edgar Allan Poe 136 lines, 180 comments - In these deep solitudes and awful cells,
Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells,by Alexander Pope 389 lines, 20 comments - When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,by John Keats 14 lines, 20 comments - Age saw two quiet children
Go loving by at twilight,by Robert Frost 26 lines, 5 comments - The bell-rope that gathers God at dawn
Dispatches me as though I dropped down the knellby Harold Hart Crane 48 lines, 1 comment - The free bird leaps
on the back of the windby Dr. Maya Angelou 41 lines, 44 comments - Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
My love, you are in my heart.by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin 13 lines, 3 comments - This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 21 lines, 41 comments - You who were darkness warmed my flesh
where out of darkness rose the seed.by Judith Wright 22 lines - Chalti Chakki Dekh Kar, Diya Kabira Roye
Dui Paatan Ke Beech Mein,Sabit Bacha Naby Kabir 53 lines, 26 comments - The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,by Roald Dahl 92 lines, 24 comments - Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;by Emily Dickinson 24 lines, 39 comments - Do you come to me to bend me to your will
as conqueror to the vanquishedby Christina Walsh 30 lines, 26 comments - Gumtree in the city street,
Hard bitumen around your feet,by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) 15 lines, 16 comments - Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;by Robert Frost 16 lines, 131 comments - If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;by Rudyard Kipling 34 lines, 56 comments - Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!by William Wordsworth 34 lines, 10 comments - It was a long time ago.
I have almost forgotten my dream.by Langston Hughes 29 lines, 31 comments - 'There's the girl who clips your ticket for the train,
And the girl who speeds the lift from floor to floor,by Jessie Pope 20 lines, 10 comments - A woman who my mother knows
Came in and took off all her clothes.by Roald Dahl 6 lines, 31 comments - It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,by Edgar Allan Poe 41 lines, 121 comments - Tie your heart at night to mine, love,
and both will defeat the darknessby Pablo Neruda 16 lines, 9 comments - Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue,by Vera Brittain 23 lines, 9 comments - The green-blue ground
is ruled with silver linesby William Carlos Williams 21 lines, 3 comments - Dear Madam, you have seen this play;
I never saw it till today.by A P Herbert 25 lines, 2 comments - maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)by e e cummings 16 lines, 13 comments - Please master can I touch your cheek
please master can I kneel at your feetby Allen Ginsberg 56 lines, 4 comments - Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!by Alfred Lord Tennyson 18 lines, 19 comments - I love sensual women and not passionate ones. A passionate woman closes her eyes, moans and shouts and the enjoyment of a passionate woman is blind.
A passiby Daniil Ivanovich Kharms 9 lines, 22 comments - "Mother dear, may I go downtown
Instead of out to play,by Dudley Randall 38 lines, 6 comments - Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook,by Nizar Qabbani 9 lines, 3 comments - Well, my daddy left home when I was three,
and he didn't leave much to Ma and me,by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 70 lines, 22 comments - raise me more love… raise me
my prettiest fits of madnessby Nizar Qabbani 51 lines, 9 comments - Children, I come back today
To tell you a story of the long dark wayby Langston Hughes 51 lines, 16 comments
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