POETRY FOR LOVER,S: 30 Jul 2011

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•23:33

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

An Allegory

I.
A portal as of shadowy adamant
Stands yawning on the highway of the life
Which we all tread, a cavern huge and gaunt;
Around it rages an unceasing strife
Of shadows, like the restless clouds that haunt
The gap of some cleft mountain, lifted high
Into the whirlwinds of the upper sky.

II.
And many pass it by with careless tread,
Not knowing that a shadowy...
Tracks every traveller even to where the dead
Wait peacefully for their companion new;
But others, by more curious humour led,
Pause to examine;—these are very few,
And they learn little there, except to know
That shadows follow them where’er they go.

Create Date	:	Thursday, April 01, 2010
Update Date	:	Thursday, April 01, 2010

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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•23:30

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An Exhortation

Chameleons feed on light and air:
Poets' food is love and fame:
If in this wide world of care
Poets could but find the same
With as little toil as they,
Would they ever change their hue
As the light chameleons do,
Suiting it to every ray
Twenty times a day?

Poets are on this cold earth,
As chameleons might be,
Hidden from their early birth
In a cave beneath the sea;
Where light is, chameleons change:
Where love is not, poets do:
Fame is love disguised: if few
Find either, never think it strange
That poets range.

Yet dare not stain with wealth or power
A poet's free and heavenly mind:
If bright chameleons should devour
Any food but beams and wind,
They would grow as earthly soon
As their brother lizards are.
Children of a sunnier star,
Spirits from beyond the moon,
O, refuse the boon!

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Friday, January 03, 2003

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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•05:42

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William Blake

London

I wander thro' each charter'd street.
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear

How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls

But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

FLAGS In the name of Allah

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•05:36

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Flags

In the name of Allah

FLAGS

The world is sad and looking for delight
And fortune is welfare and joy
And the words are gloomy
*****
We belong to the family of words
“book” is my father
“sea” is my mother
“trees” are my brothers
And “stars” my sisters
Those infinite exclamatory and question marks are my cousins
And “you” are my friends
*****
The world is a complex dictionary
Some of us are Nouns, Verbs, etc
Regular or irregular
And all of us are meaningful and important
And none of us can be erased form that lexicon
If so, the being glossary will be incomplete
*****
We are words
And live in the world of words
A few of us are high frequent and some are less
Some of us are summarized in a short single line
And some are interpreted by more than one world
Some of us are proverbs, idioms, slangs
And even taboos
*****
We are words
And stand for our thoughts
We are flags of our thoughts kingdom
And we are symbolic movable signs of our thoughts
All of us are searching for good fortunes
And prosperity happens at minds
And our luck is product of our thoughts
And thoughts are spirit of words
And words are spirit of world
And the world is sad
And the words are gloomy
Each of us is a word
Each of us is a world
And the word is searching for shiny words
Oh, LOVE come and determine my candle of thought
And refresh my glossary words.
*****
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