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Best Famous Bedevil Poems

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Written by Audre Lorde | Create an image from this poem

Coal

 I 
is the total black, being spoken 
from the earth's inside. 
There are many kinds of open 
how a diamond comes into a knot of flame 
how sound comes into a words, coloured 
by who pays what for speaking. 

Some words are open like a diamond 
on glass windows 
singing out within the crash of sun 
Then there are words like stapled wagers 
in a perforated book—buy and sign and tear apart—
and come whatever will all chances 
the stub remains 
an ill-pulled tooth with a ragged edge. 
Some words live in my throat 
breeding like adders. Other know sun 
seeking like gypsies over my tongue 
to explode through my lips 
like young sparrows bursting from shell. 
Some words 
bedevil me 

Love is word, another kind of open. 
As the diamond comes into a knot of flame 
I am Black because I come from the earth's inside 
Now take my word for jewel in the open light.


Written by Robert William Service | Create an image from this poem

Dark Trinity

 Said I to Pain: "You would not dare
 Do ill to me."
Said Pain: "Poor fool! Why should I care
 Whom you may be?
To clown and king alike I bring
 My meed of bane;
Why should you shirk my chastening?"
 Said Pain.

Said I to Grief: "No tears have I,
 Go on your way."
Said Grief: "Why should I pass you by,
 While others pay?
All men must know the way of woe,
 From saint to thief,
And tears were meant to overflow,"
 Said Grief.

Said I to Death: "From ail and fret
 Grant me relief."
Said Death: "I know you are beset
 By Pain and Grief.
But my good will you must await
 Since human breath
To suffering is consecrate,"
 Said Death.

Said I to God: "Pale Sister Grief,
 Bleak Brother Pain,
Bedevil me beyond belief,
 And Death's unfain . . ."
Said God: "Curse not that blessed Three,
 Poor human clod!
Have faith! Believe the One with Me,"
 Said God.

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