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Some Advice To Those Who Will Serve Time In Prison

by Nâzım Hikmet

If instead of being hanged by the neck
you're thrown inside
for not giving up hope
in the world, your country, your people,
if you do ten or fifteen years
apart from the time you have left,
you won't say,
"Better I had swung from the end of a rope
like a flag" --
You'll put your foot down and live.

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The Beast that Lurks in the Sea

by Aleah Harrison

I had a dream,
across the sea,
there was a land,
that I had wished to see.
Not only was it hard,
to go sailing, except in the dark,
but to quietly pass the beast in the sea.
Lurking day and night,
you did not want to be caught in its sight,
but I knew it could never catch me.

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Gone Fishin'

by Delmar Pepper

I've finished life's chores assigned to me,
So put me on a boat headed out to sea.
Please send along my fishing pole
For I've been invited to the fishin' hole.

Where every day is a day to fish,
To fill your heart with every wish.
Don't worry, or feel sad for me,
I'm fishin' with the Master of the sea.

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Loneliness

by Katherine Mansfield

Now it is Loneliness who comes at night
Instead of Sleep, to sit beside my bed.
Like a tired child I lie and wait her tread,
I watch her softly blowing out the light.
Motionless sitting, neither left or right
She turns, and weary, weary droops her head.
She, too, is old; she, too, has fought the fight.
So, with the laurel she is garlanded.

Through the sad dark the slowly ebbing tide

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Life Is A Privilege

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life is a privilege. Its youthful days
Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays.
To live, to breathe, to wonder and desire,
To feed with dreams the heart’s perpetual fire,
To thrill with virtuous passions, and to glow
With great ambitions – in one hour to know
The depths and heights of feeling – God! in truth,
How beautiful, how beautiful is youth!

Life is a privilege. Like some rare rose

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Recent Sad Poems

The Beast that Lurks in the Sea

by Aleah Harrison

hurt hurts more when you don't know it's coming

by Mishka M

i love them more than words can say,
but every day is filled with gray.
one moment laughter fills the air,
the next, i wonder if they care.
their moods, like storms, change in an instant,
a sudden silence, cold and distant.

i never know what's wrong or right,
which words will start another fight.
i walk on eggshells, all day long,

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eggshells, glass, and blueberries

by Mishka M

i tread lightly, so lightly,
like the blades of freshly mowed grass under bare feet,
soft but sharp, each step a gamble,
each breath a question:
is this enough? am i enough?
or will this be the moment i falter,
crack the shell beneath me,
and ruin the picture they’ve painted of me?

the air smells like summer mornings,

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I Don't Really Wanna Die Anymore

by Frangipani Rhett

I don't really wanna die anymore
Except for when I do

I don't really hate my life anymore
Except for when I'm blue

I don't cry too much anymore
Since my heart broke in two

I don't know where I am in this world

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.I Don't Really Wanna Die Anymore

by Frangipani Rhett

I Don't Really Wanna Die Anymore

I don't really wanna die anymore
Except for when I do

I don't really hate my life anymore
Except for when I'm blue

I don't cry too much anymore
Since my heart broke in two

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