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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369699" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Alas, A Bard’s a Bruised Reed!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They make me mad- some people, known/ unknown; <br>They make me sad- their wiliness / ego; <br>They’re after money’s comfort on this earth! <br>Sense/ common-sense are things that’re a dearth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They know how poets have suffered in life! <br>They know how poets land in utter strife! <br>They stay unmoved/ inert- husband or wife: <br>They wound my heart with words akin a knife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh how I wish I should be, never me! <br>Oh how I wish I were akin to them; <br>Yet, I can’t simply change: I’m thus destined; <br>To Poesy must Bards always well bind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry isn’t something that pays at once; <br>It isn’t something that gives plenty returns; <br>A Poet seeks the truth without/ within; <br>And Truth is God: God abhors only sin! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Being like earthlings is not always right; <br>The destiny of world, poets do fight; <br>Most Bards cannot be dishonest, may be; <br>Their minds are fixed to Eternity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if they change, could they God realize? <br>Good Bards prefer to be always soul-wise; <br>And like a phoenix die, again arise; <br>And show the world to be heavenly-wise! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, one can’t take me for an easy ride; <br>I can’t my emotions and passions hide; <br>I can’t live on with ego great and pride; <br>My thoughts to be aright, God helps decide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The superfluous from the thing that’s deep; <br>The virtual/ surreal from real; <br>The transient from what is permanent; <br>God help me to know and my soul to keep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas, a Poet is a bruised reed! <br>His works on earth are immortal indeed; <br>His heart of love is uniquely his creed; <br>His mind wants peace and never yearns for greed! <br>Alas, a Bard’s a bruised reed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q>
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They’re after money’s comfort on this earth! 
Sense/ common-sense are things that’re a dearth.

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