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A Mountain and A Squirrel
A Mountain and A Squirrel
A mountain was saying this to a squirrel
'Commit suicide if you have self-respect
You are insignificant, still so a…
A Spider and A Fly
A Spider and A Fly
One day a spider said to a fly
'Though you pass this way daily
My hut has never been honored by you
By making a chan…
The goat replied, 'This complaint is unjust
The goat replied, 'This complaint is unjust
Though truth is always bitter
I shall speak what is fair
This pasture, and this cool breeze
A Longing
A Longing
O Lord! I have become weary of human assemblages!
When the heart is sad no pleasure in assemblages can be
I seek escape from tumult…
When You Thought Me Poor
When You Thought Me Poor
When you thought me poor,
my poverty was shaming.
When blackness was unwelcome
we found it best
that I stay home.
Working Class Hero
Working Class Hero
My brothers knew
The things you know.
I did not scorn
learning them;
It’s just my mind
Was busy being trained
…
What Makes The Dalai Lama Lovable?
What Makes The Dalai Lama Lovable?
His posture
From so many years
Holding his robe with one hand
Is odd.
His gait
Also.
Turning Madness Into Flowers #1
Turning Madness Into Flowers #1
If my sorrow were deeper
I'd be, along with you, under
the ocean's floor;
but today I learn that the oil
that…
To Change The World Enough
To Change The World Enough
To change the world enough
you must cease to be afraid
of the poor.
We experience your fear as the least pardonable of <…
The Tree Of Life Has Fallen
The Tree Of Life Has Fallen
The tree of life
has fallen on my small house.
I thought it was so much bigger!
But it is not.
There in the dista…
Remember
Remember
Remember
When we ended
It all
-for a weekend&
how
We knew?
You took
The tea bowl
That I
Broke
Knowing you might some day come
Knowing you might some day come
Knowing you might some day come
and how unprepared I’ve always
been
like Mr. Sloppy
in Charles Dickens’
From: Poems To My Girls
From: Poems To My Girls
I
How can Humanity
look the deer
in
the face?
How can Mommy,
having erected
my fence?
I Will Keep Broken Things
I Will Keep Broken Things
I will keep
Broken
Things:
The big clay
Pot
With raised
Iguanas
Chasing
Their
Tails; …
Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit
Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit
Did you ever understand this?
If my spirit was poor, how could I enter heaven?
Was I depressed?
Understanding editin…
Don’t be like Those who Ask for Everything
Don’t be like Those who Ask for Everything
Don’t be like those who ask for everything:
praise, a blurb, a free ride in my rented
limousine. They ask for …
like it
like it
anyway!
I get to spend time with myself
whenever I want!
I get to feel
more love
than I ever thought
existed!
Be Nobody's Darling
Be Nobody's Darling
Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To…
You Ask Me, Why, Tho' Ill at Ease
You Ask Me, Why, Tho' Ill at Ease
You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease,
Within this region I subsist,
Whose spirits falter in the mist,
An…
To Virgil, Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the N
To Virgil, Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the N
Roman Virgil, thou that singest
Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire,
Ilion falling, Rome aris…
To The Queen
To The Queen
O loyal to the royal in thyself,
And loyal to thy land, as this to thee--
Bear witness, that rememberable day,
When, pale as yet, and f…
To Edward Lear: on His Travels in Greece
To Edward Lear: on His Travels in Greece
Illyrian woodlands, echoing falls
Of water, sheets of summer glass,
The long divine Peneian pass,
The vast…
Tithonus
Tithonus
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, <…
The Splendor Falls
The Splendor Falls
The splendor falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes
And the wild cataract …