Identity Poems
Poems Of Joys
by Walt Whitman
O TO make the most jubilant poem!
Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of Death.
O full of music! full of manhood, womanhood, infancy!
Full of common employments! full of grain and trees.
O for the voices of animals! O for the swiftness and balance of
fishes!
O for the dropping of rain-drops in a poem!
O for the sunshine, and motion of waves in a poem.
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I C E : Ode to Self
by Ghairo Daniels
[ Poet’s Note : This poem was placed 5th in an International Poetry Contest ]
I C E : Ode to Self
few Hearts can fancy dress their
nakedness in icicle Presence
fewer minds will slip into cemetery’s dusk
soul appears, no hectic heady harkening
glancing what is needed or already seeded
Insight measures wisdom, not cerebral chancing
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I am
by Ghairo Daniels
I AM
I am that I am
SourceLight within my Innermost Heart
unique fractal of Divinity
ever evolving spiralling ascending
deathless ageless
is my Soul
I am that I am
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Renascence
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
All I could see from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood;
I turned and looked another way,
And saw three islands in a bay.
So with my eyes I traced the line
Of the horizon, thin and fine,
Straight around till I was come
Back to where I'd started from;
And all I saw from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood.
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September On Jessore Road
by Allen Ginsberg
Millions of babies watching the skies
Bellies swollen, with big round eyes
On Jessore Road--long bamboo huts
Noplace to shit but sand channel ruts
Millions of fathers in rain
Millions of mothers in pain
Millions of brothers in woe
Millions of sisters nowhere to go
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I am Rainbow
by Ghairo Daniels
I am Rainbow
seven colours merged to flowing
glow in Dark Nights of the Soul
landed in a country nicknamed
the “Rainbow Nation” untamed
my mission to transform, transmute
colours covered in dust and rust
with rain we gain, attain without shame
sublime freedom for Self and fellow
with not much bellow never shallow
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Tussen ons
by Mario Odekerken
Jij kijkt,
en ik voel me gezien.
Geen woorden,
maar alles beweegt.
Als jij dichterbij komt,
herinner ik mezelf.
We zeggen niets
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Between us
by Mario Odekerken
You look,
and I feel seen.
No words,
yet everything shifts.
When you come closer,
I remember myself.
We say nothing,
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Zwischen uns
by Mario Odekerken
Du siehst mich an,
und ich fühle mich erkannt.
Keine Worte,
dich alles verändert sich.
Wenn du näher kommst,
erinnere ich mich an mich selbst.
Wir sagen nichts,
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Shiver Shake Not : Song
by Ghairo Daniels
pretty or slippery are not my names
no time for docile dolly games
peaceful presence my authenticity aims
ascension not something timidly tame
Chorus : shiver shake not, I have nothing to hide
flowing with life’s lovely tide
if you cannot bear scars and shadows
go elsewhere to see what flavour marrows
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