Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
The Big Upside-Down Day
Today is Opposite Day, hooray!Everything’s backward in every way.Shoes go on hands and hats go on feet,We shout “hello!” to everyone we meet.We walk..
© Opposite Day
A World Made Brighter
If every voice decidedTo speak just one kind phrase,The world would shine much brighterThan sunlight through a haze.A compliment is musicThat softly..
© Compliment Day
The Echo of Kind Words
A kind word echoes softlyLong after it is said,It lingers in the cornersOf a tired, troubled head.When someone feels unnoticed,When confidence is..
© Compliment Day
Words of Light
Words of light, words of grace,Softly falling, face to face.Compliments like blossoming treesSway with kindness in their leaves.A single phrase can..
© Compliment Day
The Art of Kindness
There is an art in kindness—A beauty simple, pure, and true;It glows within a thoughtful wordThat says, “I see the best in you.”No gold or gift can..
© Compliment Day
The Power of a Gentle Word
A compliment is just a breath,A simple string of quiet sound,Yet how it lifts a weary heart,And turns the heavy day around.It travels farther than we..
© Compliment Day
To the Women Who Inspire
Through endless nights and busy days,You lead with love in countless ways.A heart of courage, soul of fire,Your life ignites our deepest desire.We..
© Womens Day - 8 March
A Tribute on March 8
For every dream you dare to chase,For every smile, for every grace.For battles fought and victories won,For shining bright like morning sun.Women of..
© Womens Day - 8 March
Women’s Day Celebration
A mother’s care, a teacher’s guide,A leader’s strength, a friend’s pride.All the women who shape our days,Deserve our cheers, our love, our..
© Womens Day - 8 March
Strength and Beauty
With every dawn, your light appears,Dispelling doubts, confronting fears.Your voice is strong, your spirit free,A force of love, a legacy.You build..
© Womens Day - 8 March
Ode to Women
On this day, we honor you,For all the strength in all you do.Through storms of life, through joy and pain,You rise again, and rise again.Your hearts..
© Womens Day - 8 March
The Indifferent
I can love both fair and brown;Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays;Her who loves loneness best, and her who masks and plays;Her whom..
© John Donne
Love's Usury
For every hour that thou wilt spare me now,I will allow,Usurious God of Love, twenty to thee,When with my brown, my grey hairs equal be;Till then..
© John Donne
Elegy I: Jealousy
Fond woman, which wouldst have thy husband die,And yet complain'st of his great jealousy;If swol'n with poison, he lay in his last bed,His body with..
© John Donne
The Legacy
When I died last, and, Dear, I dieAs often as from thee I go,Though it be but an hour ago,And Lovers' hours be full eternity,I can remember yet, that..
© John Donne
Self-Love
He that cannot choose but love,And strives against it still,Never shall my fancy move,For he loves 'gainst his will;Nor he which is all his own,And..
© John Donne
Holy Sonnet Iv: Oh My Black Soul!
Oh my black soul! now art thou summonedBy sickness, death's herald, and champion;Thou art like a pilgrim, which abroad hath doneTreason, and durst..
© John Donne
Holy Sonnet X
Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,Die not..
© John Donne
The Prohibition
Take heed of loving me,At least remember, I forbade it thee;Not that I shall repair my unthrifty wasteOf breath and blood, upon thy sighs, and..
© John Donne
Elegy X: The Dream
Image of her whom I love, more than she,Whose fair impression in my faithful heartMakes me her medal, and makes her love me,As Kings do coins, to..
© John Donne
Holy Sonnet ?
Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?Repair me now, for now mine end doth haste,I run to death, and death meets me as fast,And all my..
© John Donne
Song
Sweetest love, I do not go,For weariness of thee,Nor in hope the world can showA fitter love for me;But since that IMust die at last, 'tis bestTo use..
© John Donne
Holy Sonnet Xvii: Since She Whom I Loved
Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debtTo Nature, and to hers, and my good is dead,And her soul early into heaven ravished,Wholly on heavenly..
© John Donne
Song: Go And Catch A Falling Star
Go and catch a falling star,Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me where all past years are,Or who cleft the devil's foot,Teach me to hear mermaids..
© John Donne
The Triple Fool
I am two fools, I know—For loving, and for saying soIn whining poetry;But where's that wiseman that would not be I,If she would not deny?Then, as th'..
© John Donne