No Time To Hate or Love
I had no time to hate, because
The grave would hinder me,
And life was not so ample I
Could finish enmity.
Nor had I time to love; but since
Some industry must be,
The little toil of love, I thought,
Was large enough for me.

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The Secret
Some things that fly there be, —
Birds, hours, the bumble-bee:
Of these no elegy.
Some things that stay there be, —
Grief, hills, eternity:
Nor this behooveth me.
There are, that resting, rise.
Can I expound the skies?
How still the riddle lies!

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The Eclipse
I stood out in the open cold
To see the essence of the eclipse
Which was its perfect darkness.
I stood in the cold on the porch
And could not think of anything so perfect
As mans hope of light in the face of darkness.

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Sleep
Though wakefulness my domain
In sleep I remain,
For wakefulness is sleep
One shallow and one deep.

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Moving

Why is it, when people move to a new place
That ancient dilemma, one more time they have to face?
Simplify and give away with much grace
Or in their new home find more room, more space.
In our life, go to a new emotional stage
We carry our old sadness, guilt, and rage
Simplifies, throws away garbage, the sage
But others will just carry till old age.

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World-Greatness
Profundity is not because it reaches wide
Though it’s clear, and it has nothing to hide,
Profundity is one that reaches so deep
It plants and waits for the process to reap.
World-greatness is not due to world-wide reach
World-greatness results from world-deep preach.

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Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be. .

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A charm invests a face.
Imperfectly beheld.
The lady dare not lift her veil.
For fear it be dispelled.
But peers beyond her mesh,
And wishes, and denies,
Lest interview annul a want.
That image satisfies.

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Alone
I feel so alone,
Texting on my phone.
I wish he would talk to me,
I think I might go crazy!
If I really was straight,
Then why is it girls that I hate?
I think I need counciling,
Did I mention why my wrist is in a sling?

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Love
I will love you in a box.
i will love you with a fox.
i will love you in a tree.
i love you a lot as you can see!
i will love you in a house,
i will love you with a mouse.
i will love you here or there,
i will love you anywhere.