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Canto Two [excerpt] by John Shade (from Pale Fire) | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Canto Two [excerpt] by John Shade (from Pale Fire) | Poems Rethabile Likes Canto Two [excerpt] by John Shade (A poet in Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Pale Fire") There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me. There was the day when I began to doubt Man's sanity: How could he live without Knowing for sure what dawn, what death, what doom Awaited consciousness beyond the tomb? And finally there was the sleepless night ...

Those Winter Sundays | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden | Poems Rethabile Likes Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house. Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know ...

Bachata by Geoffrey Philp | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Bachata by Geoffrey Philp | Poems Rethabile Likes Bachata by Geoffrey Philp After every party in our house when the reggae, reggaeton, R&B have exhausted the younger couples, and they sit separately to cool down, I want to dance with you, the way our friends, Miguel and Ramona, who have made a promise, that despite their struggle with lawyers, bill collectors, and cancer, they will never leave each other, and whenever the bachata begins— we stop to watch how he will catch her— she spins out of his arm's reach they pass like strangers, but then his hand finds the small of he...

i carry your heart with me by E.E. Cummings | Poems Rethabile Likes

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i carry your heart with me by E.E. Cummings | Poems Rethabile Likes "i carry your heart with me" by E.E. Cummings Poet E.E. Cummings reads "i carry your heart with me." Find his books 📖 Read along i carry your heart with me i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and ...