My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into my book of changes: may the song I sing be seamless as its way weaves from the world's beginning to our day.
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But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to c... ANDREA GIBSON We thought everything would be forgotten, but I still remember your claws running down my... ZAEEMA J. HUSSAIN I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything y... CHARLES BUKOWSKI My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the... ROMAN PAYNE The season was waning fast Our nights were growing cold at last I took her to bed with sil... ROMAN PAYNE Let your heart sing from those wounded places. When you sing your song with everything you've g... GEMMA B. BENTON Love entered in my heart one day A sad, unwelcome guest. But when it begged that it might ... J. CALIFORNIA COOPER I am a creature of the Fey Prepare to give your soul away My spell is passion and it is ... HEATHER ALEXANDER Something about you caught me by surprise Though I always knew you’d be my demise. R.S. 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MADELEINE L'ENGLE Accept the universe As the gods gave it to you. If the gods wanted to give you something e... ALBERTO CAEIRO May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are me... TERESA OF ÁVILA Oracle of Delphi Speaks: In my deep mystery I breathe your fragrance swirling in your... RAMON RAVENSWOOD And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your ... DAVID BOWIE Not to waste the spring I threw down everything, And ran into the open world To sing ... ROMAN PAYNE FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be dam... CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars F... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your heart beats between the palm of my hand. Its need to be One with me Drips B... N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Your heart beats against the palm of my hand. Its need to be One with me Drips B... N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN I loved you, so I drew these tides of Men into my hands And wrote my will across the ... T.E. LAWRENCE Queen of my tub, I merrily sing, While the white foam rises high, And sturdily wash, and r... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, bu... MARY OLIVER THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINS Laugh, I tell you And you will turn back The ... SUZY KASSEM XVI I love the handful of the earth you are. Because of its meadows, vast as a planet, PABLO NERUDA We shall not sip from the same glass, No water for us, or sweet wine; We’ll not embrace ... ANNA AHKMATOVA I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to... RAINER MARIA RILKE I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. Bu... KAMAND KOJOURI Your eyes have fingers that grip me by the collar of my soul & pull me<... CURTIS TYRONE JONES If I were a cinnamon peeler I would ride your bed and leave the yellow bark dust on y... MICHAEL ONDAATJE HERMIA God speed fair Helena! whither away? HELENA Call you me fair? that fair ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned t... SARA TEASDALE For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If t... WILLIAM BLAKE If I could have just one wish, I would wish to wake up everyday to the sound of your breat... COURTNEY KUCHTA All it means is that, while our minds may have trouble communicating, our bodies don't have any prob... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sonnet XVII I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of ca... PABLO NERUDA A bird who hurt her wing, now forgotten how to fly. A song she used to sing, bu... LANG LEAV A Woman's Question Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing Ever made by t... JOSHUA HARRIS I own a crevice stuffed with moss and a couch of lemming fur; I sit and listen to the musi... JOHN MEADE HAINES I had spent the day friendless, lonely and sad, a stranger to myself. GULZAR The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusion... DAVID LEVITHAN Antony: O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See How I convey my shame out of thine eyes WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ashes have no fear to burn in hell In your heart's paradise angels dwell Rib cage fastens ... MUNIA KHAN The Prologue to TERRITORY LOST "Of cats' first disobedience, and the height O... HENRY N. BEARD Do not hold your breath for anyone, Do not wish your lungs to be still, It may delay the c... ERIN HANSON I breathe in... the fragrance of love, and moist sand the one his roses left SANOBER KHAN I never knew You lived so close to the floor, but every time I am bowed down, crushed by t... SHEILA WALSH Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane?” Barrons asked, watching me carefully. I wiped my mouth with ... KAREN MARIE MONING For Equilibrium, a Blessing: Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore, May the relief ... JOHN O'DONOHUE I have come to your group for somewhere to belong, I promise I shall adapt before too long, ELISE ICTEN I was only a child when I learned how to fly I wanted to touch the colors of... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO i want to be in love with you the same way i am in love with the moon SANOBER KHAN When I Am Dead, My Dearest When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for... CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permea... KAMAND KOJOURI Let my heiress have full rights, Live in my house, sing songs that I composed. Yet how slo... ANNA AKHMATOVA Shall I speak of the consequence One, that your attention causes? Words you utter ke... ZUBAIR AHSAN I never cut my neighbor's throat; My neighbor's gold I never stole; I never spoiled his ho... MARGUERITE OGDEN BIGELOW WILKINSON This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses ... SARA TEASDALE I Like For You To Be Still I like for you to be still It is as though you are... PABLO NERUDA CHOCOLATE DAY POEM: "Chocolate, dark or light.. Makes me smile bright. Chocolate, whe... VIKRMN For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Everywhere I go, your beauty spills into my day. The trees were never this v... KAMAND KOJOURI The love song I wrote that day... I got embarrassed and never sang it for her. Oh yeah...... INIO ASANO And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, ... OVID Pretty Song" From the complications of loving you I think there is no end or return.... MARY OLIVER I twist like a flower at the sound of your voice But you leave the receiver static ... KAIT ROKOWSKI It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mi... FRED ROGERS I must confess, that my heart is like a frozen lake, only pretends to be firm, to sh... AKASH MANDAL Because the birdsong might be pretty, But it's not for you they sing, And if you think my ... ERIN HANSON Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Songs of the Soul On a dark night, Inflamed by love-longing - O exquisite risk!... SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ So that you will hear me my words sometimes grow thin as the tracks of the gulls on t... PABLO NERUDA Let me breathe You in, Let me taste the meaning of sublime; Let my soul mingle with You, NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA May you find serenity and tranquility in a worl... SANDRA STURTZ HAUSS Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the begi... L.M. MONTGOMERY If the radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once into the sky That would be like t... J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, JOHN DONNE My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing ... E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS Soul Sister Evoking all my inner goodness with bastions of time I cradle your h... MUSE My soul must reach into the clouds and touch the beauty of madness. MELODY LEE This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. For as there are billions of differe... KAMAND KOJOURI So the nymphs they spoke, we kissed and laid. By noontime’s hour our love was made.... ROMAN PAYNE
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