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If This Life Is All We Have by Dennis Brutus | Poems Rethabile Likes

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If This Life Is All We Have by Dennis Brutus | Poems Rethabile Likes If This Life Is All We Have by Dennis Brutus if in fact it is all we shall know as indeed may be most probable and if, as is reasonably certain we shall have no more on earth then it is wrong to lament — wrong to wish for the end of life wrong to feel one must drag somehow through and surely one must do whatever one can fill each day with as much as can be done while we live, we must fill each day with living and do each day as much as we can of what seems to us worthwhile; all that is good, as we understand it all that stirs us with a sense o...
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Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats | Poems Rethabile Likes Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how can body, laid in that white rush, But feel the strange heart beating where it lies? A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead. Being so caught up, So mastered by the brut...
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Courage – It Takes More by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Courage – It Takes More by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers | Poems Rethabile Likes Courage – It Takes More by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers It takes more than breath to be alive more than blood to find your line more than a hand to throw a stone; it takes a heart, a heart beaten into bricks and built into a house a house where humanity finds a home. The house is in the street and the street lies on the land, a land of corpses and speeches, a land of lies. The lies we tell to keep the best for our own – family country god whatever we imagine is our home. The best of us are rivers who give themselves to oceans, rivers who ...
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