He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

quote by Horace
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A Palimpsest For Peace

Cross words cross across crossed wires.
Cross-purposes cross reconciliation off the list
As, crosswise, clockwise and counter-clockwise
Fight for costly cross-border dominance.
Cross voices cross between cross and crescent.
Quiescent sense lessens strength and ends
In senselessness as curses crush courtesy.
Cross-eyed viewpoints squint crossly
As cross-cultural conferences collapse.
Yet, crucially, crossed-fingers aloft,
If antagonists acquiesced in crossing over
To foster lost respect and tolerance,
We could cross off the past of bitterness,
Gross antipathy and once-crossed swords,
As cross-cooperation is consummated
As effortlessly as simply casting away
An anachronistic acrostic cryptic crossword.

poem by C. Richard Miles
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Southern Man

Southern man better keep your head
Dont forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come as last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man
I saw cotton
I saw black
Tall white fences
Little shacks
And southern man
When will you pay them back
I heard screaming
Bull whips cracking
How long how long
How
Southern man better keep your head
Dont forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man

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song performed by Indigo Girls
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Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow.

quote by Bob Ekstrom
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Daylight Court Buildings

phoenix moment
smooth criminal
Italian black
white lines

crosses silk
tie smiles back
into daylight
court buildings

poem by Terence George Craddock
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Days

Swift and subtle
The flying shuttle
Crosses the web
And fills the loom,
Leaving for range
Of choice or change
No time, no room.

poem by Janet Lewis
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(Addiction Poem) Bad Habit

Burning crosses
Blowing up bridges
Taking out the stitches
Confinement
Locked up abroad
Slaughtering the filthy hog
Choking on the cities smog
Leaning on the rock

I'm jittery
I'm not so pretty
Things are getting ugly
Another fight
Break out tonight
Take flight

Burning crosses
Blowing up bridges
Taking out the stitches
Confinement

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poem by Ace Of Black Hearts
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The Line

Can U talk 2 me with your body, baby?
Can U tell me what I wanna hear?
Can U lay on me a good enough reason 2 cross the line?
Yeah, ho! {x2}
Can U be my lover and still be my friend? (Can U be my friend?)
Can U stick with me till the bitter end? (The bitter end)
Can U lay on me a good enough reason 2 cross the line?
Yeah, ho! (Cross the line)
CHORUS:
The line, line - it's a happy step 2 make
It takes time, time - all is what it takes
The line, line - and soon your life is so much better
The water's so much better on the other side (Cross the line)
Can U tolerate? Why am I not so free?
How I did the plan
Can U understand I'm a free man?
But will I stop the dam if I don't cross the line?
Yeah, ho! {x2}
Ow!
Hey

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song performed by Prince
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Sad Sight

All those white crosses
lined up in a row
house all the remains
of soldiers that don't know
who won the war?
Or what they died for?

poem by Edwina Reizer
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Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

quote by Mary Church Terrell
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Lines Suggested By A Sight Of Waltham Cross

Time-mouldering crosses, gemmed with imagery
Of costliest work and Gothic tracery,
Point still the spot, to hallowed Wedlock dear,
Where rested on its solemn way the bier
That bore the bones of Edward's Elinor
To mix with Royal dust at Westminster.
Far different rites did thee to dust consign,
Duke Brunswick's daughter, princely Caroline:
A hurrying funeral, and a banished grave,
High-minded Wife, were all that thou couldst have.
Grieve not, great Ghost, nor count in death in losses;
Thou in thy life-time hadst thy share of crosses

poem by Charles Lamb
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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

quote by Barbara Kingsolver
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The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

quote by John McCain
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New Crucifixions

They bring new crosses of dark wood
And begin to crucify our three brothers.
Three nails on each,
Just three shrieks from each mouth and
Three small tear drops falling apart.

Three minutes of crucifixion melt out
The sky remains white,
The sun fades not,
And the curtains of the shrines tear not.
Lamentations cease and three days of agony await.
But no resurrections ever afterwards!

Across the streams of innocence
A floating raft emerges now
And time writes its lyric of salvation
Across the sky of expectations once more!
Will these crosses become firewood once?

poem by M.d Dinesh Nair
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If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

quote by Lenny Bruce
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When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

quote by Mary McCarthy
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God Painted Memory Crucifixion

How did God
paint sacred memory
Crucifixion in his
Laws upon the Sky?

God created
parhelion to
paint memory
Crucifixion in
his scientific Laws
upon the Sky!

Even the name
parhelion means
'beside the sun'

hear symbolic
phrase
reminds us

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Love In Star Burst Breathes

with universal wonder
sail solar winds seed
love in star burst breathes

arching out spanning across
interstellar womb light space
dancing web cosmic stories

with universal wonder
embrace creation light seed
love into all life at light

speed too slow too slow seed
love into all life at thought
speed instant crosses solar systems

galaxy universe in an instant
in time crosses multi universes
in an instant of time love seeds

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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A Tower at Riverside

I've poured myself sweet spring wine,
And I am already tipsy as I climb the tower.
Who startles the line of geese
Into dashing to split the cloud that crosses the river?

poem by Du Mu, translated by Burton Watson
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

quote by John McCrae
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