Long Make your eyes light up Poems

May 29, 1957: …have to think about getting a thesis director…know no professor yet in the department…someone suggested i get hold of Derek Fogg for an intro to the big guns in the philosophisches Seminar…can't...

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The Parrot and the Woodpecker may turn...
    [Sung by TEnicayccal Cellappa]        Translated by T.Wignesan
 
mAnkiliyum marankottiyum         ...

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Achingly, I watch as you frequently fall
For the idyllic notion of unconditional love
The dream, the desire, the fantasy
Drawn, inexplicably, to the potent flame
Of one who ignites the spark
You learn from her, confide in her
Losing yourself
As...

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25.
Ever be with me within love’s own light, 
within the light of love’s tree we shall join. 
Right up ahead the oak shines golden bright, 
to her deep living roots, our love enjoin.

Soon we shall...

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...He loked at one and he sighed:
”Wished they still made them like that.”
I said,”I know at least one remains,
if you’re willing to haul a pack.”

Nick didn’t seem at all convinced,
I said,”Trust me when I say,
if...

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Hello my gorgeous baby 
My beautiful wonderful Angel. 
I love you with all of my heart
and I'm sorry if this message is painful.
there are some things I would like to say,
things I would say if...

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The way to a girls heart 
                        seems to be sour candy?...

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Falling, I don't know what to do
Down the lane, all thoughts sink
Traveling through my own blue
Coming, I feel Thy eyes' jot blink
You give me a hand in my hand
All thoughts give way, blue brand

Your hand...

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“The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.” Emerson
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Slash, Loblolly, and Jelecote~curious names
     for the majestic pine and eucalypt,
         ...

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The Ls are all mixed in together. You love. You lose. And you learn. Like the stages of grief, they intertwine and flow together. But you will always go through them all. While you learn...

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It was cold in New York City. In the dark,
alley, behind the lavish buildings among the
super rich, roam the forgotten.

   Waiting in line at the redemption center,
turning in their plastic bottles, to pay...

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My own world rocked,
My heart so rattled,,
My brain so shocked,
My ego so embattled

I left my wife,
When her heart was exposed
By her unfaithful ways,
The end of my married days...

Back to my parents home...
Within six weeks
My dear...

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You’ll never know but you’re all I can think about.
You’ll never know but I love you with all my heart.
You’ll never know that the safest place in the world is in your arms.
You’ll never know...

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I contemplate my words with caution
i forge my stand with speedy resolve
as my student appears lost in time..
in a secret place of daydreams where
my surreal lecture boring penetrate in

My students eyes light up and i...

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To my Dearest Darling Rose

I am writing this letter to you at this
moment sat on my own up on deck
of the ship and it's around midnight 
We are somewhere due south of the 
equator in...

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I was talking to this sexy 
girl on the net ( I cannot tell you her name )
I’ve seen her picture on facebook 
A pic that will make you sweat.

We were talking naughty pics
Don’t ask,...

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I love the way you look at me
Eyes light up, 
Naughtiness playing on the curve of your mouth.
Still have the power to,
Heighten my senses 
Just by your presence.
My body has its own ambition,
It seems like...

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In 2038 time travel was/is invented. 
The first travelers -- scientists, all, are tasked to find out
  how the first great ape became intelligent.

They are ordered not to interact: "Just watch!"
  "The world...

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continued.......

In his bed she hears him approach with long strides.
The covers are over her head as she pretends to hide.
With one swift yank she is left naked and bare.
Meeting his eyes in a longing appreciative...

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I wonder if you know I’m here
  If you see me beside you in class
  If you see me glance at you across the isle
I wonder if you know my name
  Is...

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We are at the age where our memory begins to turn selective, 
We chose what we want to remember and we tend to forget the rest. 

Yet We have forgotten how to love, 
We have...

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Sleeping, as the cold dead night creeps upon you
stealing your every blanket, laughing as you shiver even more,
watching the second hand on the clock wind down to stop
I begin to wake and ask myself how...

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i was coming from the break room
ready to open something sweet
when i pass by the room of a smiling kid
it was Christmas Day and the kid had tears in her eyes
her parents and other family...

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She rolls on the dusty ground
pulls her hair
scratch her skin
dress halfway out
to a stranger this may look like the Ingoma dance
she falls on her knees
tears streaming down the cheeks
mouth wide but no sound comes of...

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This is a poem about the future I'd love to have with the boy of my dreams.
None of this has actually happened yet (besides us falling in love with eachother) but it's how I would...

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