Palace Flophouse

the palace flophouse,
is a good place to be
if you ever need any help,
like if anyone's ever dead
the palace flophouse,
is a good place to be
if you ever need any help,
like if anyone's every dead
mad dog, mad dog, mad dog, coming dog
mad dog, mad dog, (she looks onto my face) mad dog, coming dog
mad dog, mad dog, (and i looked right by you) mad dog, coming dog
mad dog, mad dog, (she looked onto her face) mad dog, coming dog
mad dog, mad dog, (i'll never see you again) mad dog, coming dog
the palace flophouse,
is a good place to be
if you ever need any help,
like if anyone's ever dead
the palace flophouse,
is a good place to be
if you ever need any help,

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Thailand November 2009 (2)

In Nakhon Pathom
we posed for
the tallest Buddhist pagoda
then watched
The greatest Elephant Show

In Phetchaburi
we sunbathed in Cha-am Beach,
and had
time viewing the
scenic mountains,
limestone caves,
and ancient temples.

Finally in Prachuap Khiri
we went inside Klai Kangwon Palace,
a summer palace of the King and the Royal Family,
courtesy of the ambassador
friend of my father-in-law.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

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Though Perched On A Steeple

Though perched on a steeple
Of a royal palace the crow
Can not claimed itself Garuda
The honorable bird.

poem by Gajanan Mishra
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It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

quote by Buenaventura Durruti
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I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

quote by Martin Short
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The Reign Must Fall

The tyrants psyche is broken.
He sits in his gilded palace
Surrounded by his trusty band
Of armed thuggish cutthroats, waiting
For the inevitable end.
Outside the palace walls a crowd
Of angry, loathing citizens
Whose long suppressed voices bellow
An immediate regime change;
But like most tyrants of the past
Ego and self-aggrandizement
Deludes clear, rational thinking;
As a result, grasping at straws
Hoping for the impossible.

poem by Albert Ahearn
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Palace

Palace, pace, lace, ace, ape, cape, cap, ale, pal!
I am as hard as a stone and,
You are as soft as gel;
But, this love needs a particular place to fulfil itself.

I am as hard as a stone and,
You are as soft as a wool;
But this love started from a place;
And today, you are as light as paper!

This is just by the way,
because, you fell in love with me when Uncle Sam was around;
And today, his palace is left alone for us.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Face To Face With A Lotus

fRONTING THE
defunct Presidential Palace
Ho Chi Minh
lies the Lotus
just beside the majestic old
stairs

that time it was blooming
and i waited for the rest who climbed the palace
since i had to confront the
Lotus

It speaks too about my
loneliness
my triumphant survival
towards
another ponderous
solitude
oh my, i do not miss anyone
anymore

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But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

quote by Anselm Kiefer
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

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In the Picture Gallery

With palette laden
She sat, as I passed her,
A dainty maiden
Before an Old Master.

What mountain-top is
She bent upon? Ah,
She neatly copies
Murillo's Madonna.

But rapt and brimming
The eyes' full chalice says
The heart builds dreaming
Its fairy-palaces.

* * *

The eighteenth year rolled
By, ere returning,
I greeted the dear old

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What Do You Do About Dry Periods In Your Writing?

When the writing is going well,
I am a prince in a desert palace,
fountains flowing in the garden.
I lean an elbow on a velvet pillow
and drink from a silver goblet,
poems like a banquet
spread before me on rugs
with rosettes the damask of blood.
But exiled
from the palace, I wander --
crawling on burning sand,
thirsting on barren dunes,
believing a heartless mirage no less true
than palms and pools of the cool oasis.

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Prologue 4

silver butterfly found
a palace populated
by blinded nymphs
who shouted their oaths
on the secrets of the destiny

poem by Ahmad Shiddiqi
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What good is a palace if it's inhabited by owls. Better a straw hut inhabited by humans.

Filipino proverbs
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

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Amilia

I am a lover and i am single,
I am a joker and i am single,
I am a writer and i am single,
I am a teacher and i am single,
Come closer to me to know who i am;
Amilia is your name to the world so sweet.

To the Red Palace,
To the White Plalace,
To the Blue Palace,
To the Black Palace,
Like fire and water;
To everything, there is a middle point.

What are your four best colours?
What are your four best foods?
What are your four best songs?
Give me an answer and,
I will tell you who you are.
Amilia is your name and,

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Vanilla Seeds.

What else shall we have, in the selfish community?
That always behaves, as if the poor not exist.
They need us to move their machines,
Toil in their fields and hit their key boards.

Once their Mansions and palaces,
Malls and halls are built and finished,
We become the strangers, not to be recognized,
Though our sweat hidden under each slab.

Hundreds of washrooms, in the Buckingham palace,
royals and powerful to use. we have the shed,
that is called as lavatory, hundred yards away.

What can be done, without the subjects?
We are the vanilla seeds, thrown out after the use.
The fear of future at heart is a real torture,
The doubt of tomorrow at thought is a real agony.

poem by Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi
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