Works Of Darkness!

Works of darkness!
Expose them;
For you ere once in the darkness and now,
You've seen the light!

Works of darkness!
Expose them;
And walk as children of the light always,
For things done in the dark are full of evil!
And live according to the positive gift in you.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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I denounce it

Trapped in the wordly matters
Earning, spending
Wishing more and more
Earning by hook or by crook
To satisfy the snoberry of modernity
If it is life
I denounce it
For it keeps one away from God.

poem by Mohammad Akmal Nazir
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This Feeling Does Not Linger

As strange as my name...
I can't describe this feeling.
I can't declare it stays the same.
This feeling does not linger.

I do have goals and aims.
Like others I see near me.
But 'who' they are remains unclaimed.
And that too changes.
Like storm clouds that bring rain.

We are more than what we seem.
Much more than given names.
And few care to pronounce them.
Some even denounce,
Them.

We are bigger than our dreams.
When each one comes to pass...
We seek one more to grasp.

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

quote by Herodotus
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

quote by Isaac Barrow
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It Dropped So Low -- In My Regard

It dropped so low -- in my Regard --
I heard it hit the Ground --
And go to pieces on the Stones
At bottom of my Mind --

Yet blamed the Fate that flung it -- less
Than I denounced Myself,
For entertaining Plated Wares
Upon My Silver Shelf --

poem by Emily Dickinson
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The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

quote by Siobhan Davies
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Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as ""deficits as far as the eye can see."" But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

quote by Karl Rove
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Rueben is Dead

Pen Brutish Rueben is dead, cold blooded, and dumb
We shall not mourn,
Our first born scribe now buried in their ruins, as many of his likes
Weep not comrades,
Will he speak for himself?
Not again,
The rejoinder master lies on the laps of Delilah’s whom he once denounced
He shook hands with the devil and died
Ruben was not killed with their barrels when he ought to have been dead
He gave himself up willingly
And threw reputation to the mire
The columns of contradicted life condemns conscience
Disparaged pages of Jewish fated hypocrisies
Public circulated ranting at the Rutam House for advantage
Only reprobates, dares to defend these, justifying them in rejoinders
The obvious, we lost him
A consenting silence, the booing of legislators, the shock of commoners
No rejoinders, none till the expiration of his mingle after four years,
If it comes,
It will be weak, supportive of the evil he once decries

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poem by Macaulay Akinbami
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

quote by Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Out of Place

One man is jailed for crimes
Against humanity!
While another walks free...
And clearly is the worse enemy,
By exposing 'his' insanity...
With reasons that are deemed justified!
And upheld by those
Who see nothing wrong that is exposed
Or out of place by disgraceful events
No one with common sense would allow!
And these are the days of our lives.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Many Names

Yo want it to be seen so,
You exposed it to the masses!
You want it to be loved so,
You exposed it to the world;
And now the streets have too many names for you,
And like your musical abilities in the land of war! !

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Classified

Classified, class, deal, as, if, lead, lass, die, fed, flies, dies, ace, sad, lie, sale;
Hear and give ear to my words!
For the round corner of your room is now exposed to me.

Classified, fields, fail, fails, dial, ale, lace, dice, side, ice, aide, lied, lies, sales;
And like the love of your muse with joy!
But hear my words and learn also from me,
For the round corner of your room is now exposed to me.

Classified, lad, lid, led, sail, face, faces, sides, fades, side, aid, case, laid, sled;
With words of love and words of peace,
But remember always to do the right thing!
For th corner of your room is now exposed to me.

Classified, cad, clad, field, lies, aids, acid, field, fields, acids, cases, lair, laird;
With the memories of your love and the joy of peace!
But hear and give ear to my works;
For the round corner of your room is now exposed to me.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

quote by Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Preach one and do opposite

Kill the ego, denounce the comfort,
and detach yourself from the worldly.
It is the Vedic principle.

Hone the ego, rope the comfort,
and command as much worldly.
It is its preacher’s life style.
25.01.2001, Pmdi

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute.

quote by Rebecca Loos
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

quote by William Shenstone
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Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

quote by Rick Renzi
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

quote by Soren Kierkegaard
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Attitude! ! !

Attitude,
That of a tree that sacrifices
Every bit of its being
Without any resistance

Attitude,
That of a Tiger
Who fulfills his desires
At the cost of the life of others

Attitude,
That of a philanthropist
Who burps, after being fulfilled
And puts the make-up
Of generosity and culture
To appear elite and superior

Attitude,
That of a sage
With all human weaknesses

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poem by Maitreyee Joshi
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