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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

Leonard Cohen

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Evidence Life Poet Poetry
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Care Grief Suffering
Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Grief One Liner
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Destruction Myself One Liner
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Death Myself One Liner Stars
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Deep Oneself War
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Happiness Himself Philosophy
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Disappear Light Love Philosophy
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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Afraid Avoid Beautiful Forever Goodness Myself Shame Weakness Yourself
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Forget Important Myself Reading World
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Close Herself Power Wonder Young
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Beginning Laugh Time
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try

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