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Epidemiology ( consider Jesus Christ )by Astghick Moradkhanians
— Astghick Moradkhanians
Listen up!"do things right." Time for spiritual wakening; to see real solution for all earthly struggles! Just face to sunrise section and...
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Fragment. Where's The Poet?
— John Keats
Where's the Poet? show him! show him,
Muses nine! that I may know him.
'Tis the man who with a man
Is an equal, be he King,
Or poorest of the...
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it's easier than a month and a month
— Markesh Dickinson
Looks like plastic bags.
Is Windil coming back?
Listen, the paper is thin
Do you like karate at home?
Are you buried
Shouts 6 feet, but no one hears
...
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The Gods Of The Copybook Headings
— Rudyard Kipling
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I...
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The White Man's Burden
— Rudyard Kipling
Take up the White man's burden --
  Send forth the best ye breed --
Go bind your sons to exile
  To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
 ...
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The Miracle of Morning
— Amanda Gorman
I thought I’d awaken to a world in mourning.
Heavy clouds crowding, a society storming.
But there’s something different on this golden morning.
Something...
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Listless Mind
— Zeenat Fatma
I wasn’t able to comprehend
what was happening to me
and the air of melancholy
that was wrapped around me
Everything was in accordance
but still, my...
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The Defence of Lucknow
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I
BANNER of England, not for a season, O banner of Britain, hast thou
Floated in conquering battle or flapt to the battle-cry!
Never with mightier...
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The Bustards Egg
— Longerfellow
Behind me.
Frozen
Military issued hands down my military issued trousers
This is no military issue for me!

Chew the fat (grit) of horror,...
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The Female of the Species
— Rudyard Kipling
When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends...
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The Law of the Jungle
— Rudyard Kipling
Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must...
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WINSOME INSIGHT
— Zeenat Fatma
Oh so well!
Your heart desires of me
You painted me so well on a canvas
All those dripped paints on the floor
and those dried up paint-brushes,
...
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***** आं थांनानै दङ - हारि ******
— BANGBULA BRAHMA UZIR
*** आं थांनानै दङ - हारि ***

  By:- BANGBULA BRAHMA UZIR

* सोरां दं
खोमसिआबो दङ
दाखा जोमैआबो साग्लोबहां
गोजों अख्रांखौ ।।


  खांखुवा गोलेर...
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The Stranger
— Rudyard Kipling
The Stranger within my gate,
  He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk--
  I cannot feel his mind.
I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,...
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****** जोमै हान्जा *****
— BANGBULA BRAHMA UZIR
** जोमै हान्जा ***

  By - BANGBULA BRAHMA UZIR

** बे गुवार गंसे अख्रांनि
जांख्रिखां हान्जा मोनसेनि
उन्दै- गेदेर हान्जासे हारिनि
जोंलाइ मोनसे...
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Lucy Gray
— William Wordsworth
Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray:
And, when I crossed the wild,
I chanced to see at break of day
The solitary...
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On Children
— Kahlil Gibran
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.
  And he said:
  Your children are not your children.
  They are the...
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Ode To A Nightingale
— John Keats
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
  My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
  One minute...
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Ode To Joy
— Friedrich Schiller
Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning,
Daughter of Elysium,
Fire drunken we are ent’ring
Heavenly, thy holy home!
Thy enchantments bind together,
What did...
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Seated ❤️
— Joanne Boyle
Do not look at me with sorrow,
Simply because I sit alone.
It is a choice I chose to make
To compose the shivers from my bone.
Do not look at this...
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*** गोथां मिथिंगानि जोलै *****
— BANGBULA BRAHMA UZIR
*** गोथां मिथिंगानि जोलै***

  By - Bangbula Brahma Uzir

* साननि ओंखारनायाव
सोरांनि रिफिनायजों

 बोला जेननाय मिथिंगानि
हासार गोनां हायाव

 निजोम...
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The Ballad Of East And West
— Rudyard Kipling
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
  Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
  But there...
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The Hound of Heaven
— Francis Thompson
I fled Him down the nights and down the days
I fled Him down the arches of the years
I fled Him down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind, and in the...
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Willow and Ginkgo
— Eve Merriam
The willow is like an etching,
Fine-lined against the sky.
The ginkgo is like a crude sketch,
Hardly worthy to be signed.
The willow’s music is like a...
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We and They
— Rudyard Kipling
Father and Mother, and Me,
  Sister and Auntie say
All the people like us are We,
  And every one else is They.
And They live over the sea,
  While We...
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