poem
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NAOMIE ANOMIE
A Biography of Infinite Desire
Jennifer Hasegawa
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Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —
— Emily Dickinson
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My Foolish Dream
In the distance of time hear the sound
Of those who believe they have found
The light in the dark through the beat of a heart
And the vision of freedom to come
We live in a time of despair
Where the cries of the people lie bare
Generations have passed, heard the slogans enmasse
So when will we be free at last?
While the strain of new voices spread far
Drowning light from a delicate star
But I hold in my heart a dream that I guard
It’s secrets sung by the caged dove
There’s a beautiful sound that I hear
It’s the sound of true freedom for we
And it whispers to me,
“Take my hand and you’ll see
That the dream lives for all who believe”
Let your tears wash away all the fears
Mother nature proved over the years
That for those who turn their back will never know they lack
The song of true freedom I hear
My only foolish dream
An innocent dream
— United Future Organization – My Foolish Dream – Feat. Monday Michiru
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“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“A boy I don’t like told me to write from the heart. I didn’t know what that meant because I never knew I had one, I never knew I had a heart till you kissed a boy I haven’t met, then I knew I had a heart, because I thought it might stop. And when I thought my heart might stop beating, I realized it had always been there but it didn’t know how to feel until I thought about losing you. I knew we wouldn’t last forever, I was waiting for this day, but I hope we can fix things, and if we can’t, I will always thank you for showing me I have a heart.”
-Adam Groff, Sex Education (03×08)
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»the solution« by anatol knotek
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“The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost