Hate Books Poems

life is a book

in the beginning
you hold it in your hands
new, fresh, unblemished
it is only potential
who knows what dreams it holds?

at the end
you look back...

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"Be Set Free"


Oh The wonders that thrive inside my mind
Anyone doubting me, I will leave far behind
Come along I promise you an adventure
Happiness is the...

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Melancholy 

he had been feeling miserable for weeks, his fiancé had left him and taken their dogs along she went home to live with her...

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Strike Up the Ban

Who’s banning Gone with the Wind
Are they banning Huckleberry Finn
The Diary of Ann Frank might offend 
Some German who wasn’t born back then...

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Title: Jungle Love (Under the Stars)


(Verse 1)
We’re lost in the shadows, hearts racing fast,
You’re my muse, love and hate, I can’t resist this blast.
Underneath the...

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My Crazy life as a pitbull/
My Crazy life as a pitbull, I'm labeled a beast/
I'm always doing nothing wrong but they always target me/
They always...

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DUST JACKET

It’s hate or love
A book’s cover
Another guise
...

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CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS



Catullus LXXXV: 'Odi et Amo'
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

1.
I hate. I love.
You ask, 'Why not refrain?'
I wish I could explain.
I can't, but feel...

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the past revisited 

He was going back to his home in a tiny village from 
where people congregated living close together and professed to hate...

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People gathering in the street
Heading for their own defeat
Fist raised high in the air
Screaming of a life so unfair
I don't care
Join us or die
Their war...

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Walking on through a door
Seeking one day more
To see another sunrise
Past the raindrops  the world cries
Wishing always for a better way
Or even the right...

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It may be impossible for any of us to like everybody,
But we can choose to hate nobody....

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A word master I would need to be
To describe all I see
Leaving the cloth behind
Let it all go, become one of the blind
As the world...

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I think people have the wrong view of emotion 
.they Cause such a commotion 
Give you a pill
To counter that one, another one still
All these...

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Do I need to be different for you to love me,
In a crowd of extravagant dresses,
Wear a plain white one
In a room of plain dresses,
Wear...

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