You are not who you think.You're not even the thinker.You are the one conscious of the thought. Votes: 4
Kamand KojouriLEASELife Ends And Session ExpiresKamil Ali - Poem, The Balance' - Profound Vers-A-Tales Votes: 3
Kamil AliGinsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. Votes: 3
Thom GunnPoems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say. Votes: 3
Ralph FletcherBad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. Votes: 3
Charles BukowskiHe that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. Votes: 3
Thomas CarlyleRAINThunder skiesdewdrops fall,timeless motion.Heavy drizzles,blurred visionslumbering moon. Votes: 1
Tara EstacaanBenarkah angin tidak sedang mencoba menyentuh bibirnya yang begitu sempurna? Votes: 1
Leila S. Chudoriif onlyour tongueswere made of glasshow muchmore carefulwe would bewhen wespeak Votes: 1
Shaun ShanePoemWords from the heartBreaking, teaching, healingThe deepest, purest form of artFeeling Votes: 1
Esther Spurrill JonesSleeping AtlantisSilent cool watersdancing upon her skin ~silent cool waterushering dreams within... Votes: 1
MuseFour simple chambers.A thousand complicated doors.One of them is yours. Votes: 1
Jill Alexander Essbaumthe price of creationis nevertoo high.the price of livingwith other peoplealwaysis. Votes: 1
Charles Bukowskione doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine. Votes: 1
Charles BukowskiLIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words. Votes: 1
Langston HughesMatahari sudah tuaApa yang terjadijika ia tenggelam ke lautdan tak terbit lagi? Votes: 1
Subagio Sastrowardoyowhat is a journeywithout someone who wandersif sometimes a pairis made of two Votes: 1
Lori Jenessa NelsonWhen the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviRivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity. Votes: 1
Euginia HerlihyOur past sins, our fractured lives--soon nothing but drowned stars in dark skies. Votes: 1
Beatriz Fitzgerald FernandezDetermined, I riseand face the dawn with resolve.This time I will win. Votes: 1
Richelle E. GoodrichA stream of primal voicesWhispering in the breeze of your heartTo urge you on. Votes: 1
Scott HastieSolace of Silencesurreal synapsesof a melancholy dronea dream per chanceshe dared not be alone... Votes: 1
MuseThe amazing feeling that triggers the fountain of words that flow in my belly. Votes: 1
Euginia HerlihyLight is more important than the lantern,The poem more important than the notebook Votes: 1
Nizar QabbaniThe light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy. Votes: 1
Scott HastieDance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviFor every moment of suffering,Others will arriveThat will instead pierce you with joy. Votes: 1
Scott HastieCheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon. Votes: 1
Langston HughesEvery time feet move in search of dance, lips find smiles million galaxies wide. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviShe reminded me that I could write stories,/could be struck by lightning & live. Votes: 1
Jen CurrinWe both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. Votes: 1
Emily DickinsonDon't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished. Votes: 1
George WatskyNo more can this Angel teach her,Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake ... Votes: 1
E.A. BucchianeriForcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor. Votes: 1
Aniruddha SastikarPity that child who was born near Rouen,His only crime, to arrive deformed. Votes: 1
E.A. BucchianeriDance like a holy breeze invades the spirit and fills it with divine grace. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviMusic helps to forgetThis forsaken tomb,That is my abodeCellars downFar belowUnder the ground, ... Votes: 1
E.A. BucchianeriWorld seems like a void of silence every time footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviI am the red wheelbarrow of communism. William Carlos Williams wrote a poem about me. Votes: 1
Jarod KintzPina colada kisses and cocaine nipsnever lie, swear to me that this feeling is real. Votes: 1
Lori Jenessa NelsonDance provides the spirit with energy to survive from its confinement in the mortal frame. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviThe rainbow across the sky after a storm confirms Your kindness and Your forgiving heart. Votes: 1
Euginia HerlihyNovels are readOr their authors are blue.Support Indie writers:Buy their books, post reviews! Votes: 1
Cheri GillardThrough synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviThe Inner Self...What makes us who we areshould be glorifiedpersonifiedand sung unto the stars! Votes: 1
MuseHasten Little Maiden...stop and listenfor pearls of wisdomstop and listen as the river glistens... Votes: 1
MuseTime is never ticking for its moments dye in a colorful dance and move forward. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviCan you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? Votes: 1
Charles BukowskiI beg you, help me, in angelic charity,Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! Votes: 1
E.A. BucchianeriFrom childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw Votes: 1
Edgar Allan PoeWhen I feel lonely you are here beside me with your loving and caring touch. Votes: 1
Euginia HerlihyCasi no soy, pero mis versos ritmanla vida y su esplendor. Yo fui Walt Whitman. Votes: 1
Jorge Luis BorgesDear Lover...you are the only man, who never hurt me, but broke my heart. Votes: 1
Lori Jenessa NelsonSands of time pause... for a glimpse of moments dyed with the color of dance. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviAlmighty God created a dancer as a symbol of the reflection of artistry in motion. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviDance is the healing treasure within your spirit that only movements of passion can set free. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviRoses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you. Votes: 1
Gena ShowalterWith a ring around the rosaryAnd a pocket full of crossesAshes to ashesThey'll all fall down Votes: 1
Matthew FitzpatrickI've triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me. Votes: 1
Stephen DunnThere were plenty of fishes in the pond,yet i fell in love with a crocodile. Votes: 1
Anjum ChoudharyYou may continue to call it a breakup. I will continue to call it an exorcism. Votes: 1
pleasefindthisThe atmospheric intensity of two electric lovers is the most righteous place I need to rediscover. Votes: 1
Steven StormDon't be afraid to be afraid. Have fear, and then conquer the shit out of it. Votes: 1
D. Antoinette FoyWelcome to thee,O sword of eternity!Through BuddhaAnd through Daruma alikeThou hast cleft thy way. Votes: 1
Okakura KakuzōEveryone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. Votes: 1
Philip LarkinOn the stage of life, what are words but decorations... unlike dance that showcases the performance? Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviDreaming of getting you I loosed everything Cheerfulness of smile And all the dreams of life Votes: 1
Hasil PaudyalMemory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe. Votes: 1
Drew MyronI say every dog looks like no otherbut that isn't true. Not entirely.Difference is slippery. Votes: 1
Mary Jo BangLike young fern shootsmy child's fingers curled.I did not expect,in the fifth month, frost. Votes: 1
Lian HearnDo not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light. Votes: 1
Alli CondieI'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. Votes: 1
Anais NinEvery new dayOur children's joy is as fresh as roses,Even the birds chatter at dawn. Votes: 1
Scott HastieI often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get. Votes: 1
Charles BukowskiSometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviRoses are wilting, Violets are dead,The sugar bowl is empty,and so is your head. Votes: 1
WeeKittyAndTATPASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; Votes: 1
Walter RaleighMonsieur, you must be mad!Box Five can never be hadFor money, love or the world ... Votes: 1
E.A. BucchianeriDance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviShe who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze. Votes: 1
Shah Asad Rizvisometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in. Votes: 1
Charles BukowskiWe, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear. Votes: 1
Titus Lucretius CarusSpirit of a dancer ages like whiskey for it experiences in each dancing act lifetimes of freedom. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviDon't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead. Votes: 1
Federico Garcia LorcaFRIENDSLooking out the window, I see you looking in.You are the sunshine,That fills my soul. Votes: 1
Giorge LeedyMishaps in life echoes for eternity. Weeks from now, I will be harvesting my glory. Imagine greater! Votes: 1
Evelyn Leilou ColonGod promised you to give you dreams and visions, see Him as your great dream/vision giver. Votes: 1
Euginia HerlihyMusic does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviDance to the tune of hope, as worries of past slip away to the surrender of smiles. Votes: 1
Shah Asad Rizviif I finally do catch you and put my mouth to yours you will taste that summer. Votes: 1
Sina QueyrasIf I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be. Votes: 1
Marcus SedgwickA poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Votes: 1
Robert FrostHe offered his love ... she could not bother,She gives her love to the other! The other! Votes: 1
E.A. BucchianeriWe grooved together with a rhythm so beautiful that I could feel the moment turned into poetry. Votes: 1
Dominic RiccitelloYour thoughts were deeper than your mind, your little eyes pierced through the heart of your nation. Votes: 1
Euginia HerlihyIf you are still alive when you read this,close your eyes. I amunder their lids, growing black. Votes: 1
Bill KnottAnd was it his destined part / Only one moment in his life / To be close to your heart? Votes: 1
Ivan TurgenevMusic does not need the language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviThey say this soul hunting will cost me my sanity,i say i'd go insane if i stop. Votes: 1
Anjum ChoudharyAt last the bottom fell out.No more water in the pail.No more moon in the water. Votes: 1
John GouldThis separation happened for a reason, this esason is for our own good; God is just positioning us. Votes: 1
Euginia HerlihyBe there a picnic for the devil,an orgy for the satyr,and a wedding for the bride. Votes: 1
Roman PayneIf the power of love is in your heart then dance away to a universe beyond the stars. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviI wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own. Votes: 1
Dejan StojanovicThe meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. Votes: 1
Pablo PicassoA little bunny or some kind of ferret was probablythere too, and bore witness as only rodents can. Votes: 1
John AshberyShow me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviLost every purpose to visit land of dreams, since colors of dance filled the canvas of my reality. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviWords fail to describewhat i feel anymore.Let me be numb for a while,let me be sore. Votes: 1
Anjum ChoudharyStay away from the underground lake I implore,The Siren will see you are heard of no more. Votes: 1
E.A. BucchianeriIf Erik existed and lived life in despair,We wish him to know we are here and we care. Votes: 1
E.A. BucchianeriI find that the thoughts spoken between the lines are the most important parts of a poem or story. Votes: 1
Lynn CullenToday I introduced myself to my very own Heart,In silent agony, after all these years it bled apart. Votes: 1
Ankita SinghalYou love meand love me notyour love is an arm of clockjoining hands with mineonly to leave me again Votes: 1
Lori Jenessa NelsonOpen the fridge and putMy heart on a plate.I'm just as you leftme, and I taste even betterleftover. Votes: 1
Cecily von ZiegesarIf liberty sang a song, little,as the larynx of a bird,nowhere would there remain a tumbling wall. Votes: 1
Ahmad ShamlouGive the mind rest, do not stress too much on thoughts, close your eyes and let your spirit dance. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviIs it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert? Votes: 1
Dejan StojanovicSee mirror, every time you will miss me and look deeper into your eyes till you will find me. Votes: 1
Santosh KalwarMay be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours Votes: 1
Hasil PaudyalI believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem. Votes: 1
jaime gil de beidmaI chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light. Votes: 1
Sherman KennonI do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin. Votes: 1
Melissa Lee-HoughtonHow beautiful is the experience of dance. It can melt the grief of a heart with its steps of solace. Votes: 1
Shah Asad RizviTo read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. Votes: 1
Octavio PazI think i should get love inked on my skin.Maybe that's the only way i am destined to keep it. Votes: 1
Anjum ChoudharyTake each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet. Votes: 1
D. Antoinette FoyUntil we say the truth, there can be no tenderness.As long as there is desire, we will not be safe Votes: 1
Tony HoaglandYou are to me,what wind is to dry leaves.The reason for me to fall,the reason for me to fly. Votes: 1
SeekerohanPoetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its readerâs head.
Christopher LogueSometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem.
Shirley Geok-lin LimThe poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.
Jonathan CullerMy life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
Henry David ThoreauThere is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song
Masanobu FukuokaThere is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.
Thomas CarlyleIt's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.
David DuchovnyI feel most at home when I am writing a poem"because in that instant, I am everywhere.
Nathalie HandalWriting a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.
Shirley Geok-lin LimIâve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
Andrea GibsonThere's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.
Billy CollinsFirst, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well.
Jose Garcia VillaPoetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.
Matthea Harveythe truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
Muriel RukeyserI could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.
Roger McGoughTyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'
Ronald ReaganSing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars
Susan Polis SchutzThe reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.
Mark StrandI can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Pablo NerudaI think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Robert IndianaAny fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.
Theodore RoethkeJohn Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.
Tim FulfordI always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.
Carol Ann DuffySomeday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.
David Bowiea poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.
Gwen HarwoodA poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
Robert BlyBetween my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging
Seamus HeaneyWhen a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'
Wendy CopeForm is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.
Billy CollinsA poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNow that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.
Jeanette WintersonThe poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot...
Julianna BaggottA good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.
Rita DoveIn the poem "C," the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare.
Shirley Geok-lin LimIf the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.
Archibald MacLeishI see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
Stanislaw LemNo poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.
Walter BenjaminI'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.
Denise LevertovEach piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.
Norman LockThe world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.
Philip James BaileyReaders have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
C.D. WrightI hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.
Dannie AbseDo three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.
Ray BradburySweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.
Charles BukowskiThe painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
Joan MiroIf you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. AbramsIf I don't take the risk, I'll wind up with a bloodless poem. I have to be out there on the edge.
Ted KooserIn Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.
C. S. LewisOne must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.
Daniil KharmsEvery great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowI do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem
James SchuylerIt goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.
James WrightAs Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.
Kenneth RexrothEvery time you write a poem itâs apocalyptic. Youâre revealing who you really are to yourself.
Li-Young LeeWhat philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?
Michel SerresThe process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
Muriel RukeyserThe only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
Allen GinsbergAll my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem
Hunter S. ThompsonOur nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.
Masiela LushaOne way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.
Maxine KuminA living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.
Nicholas SparksPoetry's medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.
Robert PinskyThe poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.
Stanley KunitzIt is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!
Mary RuefleSometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.
Robert HassA poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.
Stephen DobynsA poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.
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