Short Paraphrasing Poems

The 
secret
of seeing-
knowing how to
see

A lanterne epigram paraphrasing Alfred Wols words on art...

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"If the day ever comes when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart. I'll stay there Forever."
 - Winnie the Pooh...

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"The world will not be destroyed by they who do evil things,
but by they who watch them and do absolutely nothing."
_ Albert Einstein...

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"First you're ignored, then laughed at by the government,
then they fight with you, and then you win"
- Mohandas Gandhi (but I'm paraphrasing him)...

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We have flown the air like birds
and have swum the seas like fishes,
but have yet to learn the simple act of
walking this earth as brothers and sisters....

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The 
secret
of seeing-
knowing how to
see

A lanterne epigram paraphrasing Alfred Wols words on art

Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2007...

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"You measure democracy by the freedom it awards its dissidents, 
and not the freedom it gives to its assimilated conformists."
- Abbie Hoffman 
(but I'm paraphrasing him)....

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Paraphrasing old Albert Einstein,
"Compound interest's man's greatest invention".
But you'll be financially in trouble,
Expecting your buying power to double,
Because he never factored in for inflation....

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“Whoever against a child does offend
stands before all utterly condemned
     to be thrown off the quay,
     being submerged in the sea 
a stone round your neck to bring life to an end.”

Paraphrasing words of Jesus from Mark 9.42...

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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. (Mark Twain)

When Adam donned his fig leaf
Was a sense of decency assumed.
When sons of Adam
Again find it cute
To be comfortable
In their birthday suit
Will simple modesty be resumed.
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Heard this song over a 1000 times

But for the first time 
I just actually listened to the Lyrics

Of Stevie Wonder's 

Superstition

And paraphrasing 
it goes a little something like this

If you believe in things you don't understand

You Will Suffer 

?????????????...

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"Whatever course you decide upon
there will always be someone to tell you that you're wrong.
There will always be difficulties arising which
will tempt you to believe that your critics are correct.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end
requires a great deal of courage my friend."...

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Presumably possibly permitting pairs of problems pertinently pertaining to
paraphrasing pitifully passes out postulates.

Good heavens. Did I actually write that and is it really an alliteration?
I need a contradiction category contrary to popular belief.

James Thomas Horn, Retired Veteran...

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Trapped 'tween 
  adjectives' objections
succumbed to
  long-windedness,
snared 'neath an
  expanse of circumlocution,
paraphrasing periphrases 
   buried under layers
       of infused technicalities, 
all in a day's multiformity
   working midst the sublimity
           of poetry's madness...

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"I was convinced that there were bombs planted all over the place.
Everywhere there were going off explosions
as if someone was sitting at a control panel base
and pushing detonator buttons.
There was another explosion,
and then another one.
I didn't know which way to run."
 - Teresa Veliz, working on the 47th floor of the North Tower on 09/11....

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Propaganda is used to manipulate people
and it's at its very best and most successful,
when all of the many masses of gullible people
are convinced that they are acting upon their own free will.
* 
I'm somewhat paraphrasing Joseph Goebbels.
Even evil has knowledge that needs to be told,
because propaganda in America 
is running rampant in the multiples....

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In any moment with any decision,
one can only do one of only 3 things.
The best thing one can do is the right thing.
The next best thing one can do is the wrong thing.
The worst thing one can do is nothing.
I think someone else said that, but I may be paraphrasing,
so would the above be considered me plageurizing?
I think the above was said by one of my Presidents?
In any event, it makes lots of sense....

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The following is me paraphrasing,
John Nash, 
one of the most brilliant, amazing, 
Nobel Prize winning mathematicians;
"My whole life has been numbers of varied equations, 
searching for answers to problems and their solutions,
and in summation I have come to this ultimate conclusion,
It Is Only Through The Equation Of Love 
That Truly Gives Our Lives Any Meaning,
whether that love be for someone or for some thing."...

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The idea I know is your own;
She’s your soul, and she’s your own,
But she dwells now in a different hall
Wearing willfully a different form.

Mind! you still own your dear soul;
Place, year of birth and your name
Visibly will hail you in the hall
My words and structure shall form.

If I feel too ghostly is your soul,
She should sit outside of my hall
And guards will attend to her call,
And passers-by know she’s your soul....

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