I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
quote by Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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Falling apart
I'm sickening
I'm sickening
Losing my heart
I'm sickening
I'm sickening
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Trying to forget
Trying to protect
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Crawling this far
I'm sickening
I'm sickening
Soiled and scarred
I'm sickening
I'm sickening
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Lying to subject
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I'm coming apart
Finally
Maybe this time I'll forget about you
I've tried
But you keep coming back
Retract
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I'm coming apart
song performed by by Ultraspank
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The face and shyness
A graceful face is enough
To attract a man of repute.
Revealing posture will retract.
A woman must retain enough sigh
To draw in a man of repute.
Liberality will retract.
21.03.2010
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.
quote by T. Lehrer
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
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This IS This
This is this,
And nothing else.
This is not that!
Nor can that be this.
Even if you wished it...
To be detracted.
This will never be that,
Whether or not you regard this as fact!
This as it is,
Is not that!
This is this,
And nothing else to retract...
To retread what this is to give this to become that,
Back!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The Witch Hunt
You can get me
to plead guilty
to the most heinous
crimes
retract
everything I stood for
but despite your power
you'll never change
who I am.
poem by Vince Gullaci
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I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited.
quote by Michael Isikoff
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I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
quote by Joseph Joubert
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Unstoppable Is The Delivery
It is extremely difficult to stop,
Anyone with a passion...
Determine to see others fail.
And it is painful to hear their wailing,
From those misdeeds that eventually...
Are paid back.
Unstoppable is the delivery that returns.
Even a forgiveness given...
Can not retract what has been done.
Or schedule a time to end it.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Karma Trapped
Karma trapped,
Within those casting shadows.
The time to retract from those knacks...
To ignore signs to stop,
Wilfull agonies dropped.
Have gone!
And those left as pawns,
To instill ill wishes...
Are bestowed with shallow praise.
With few to renew,
Relationships with the Sun!
A brightness to them...
Never again comes!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Self-Inflicted Isolation
Calculating slowly,
Knowing I can't retract,
My thoughtless actions metaphor
To the feeling in my back,
Up and up my spine it spins,
I can feel it as it grows,
Its heavy grasp a constant factor in everything I know...
I'm sick and tired,
Just go away
and leave me to my own,
As long as you keep haunting me...
I'll never have a home
poem by Daniel I Brown
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What the world does to the lovers is a crime
You've got to have all the love and desire,
all the angst and craving, beat out of you.
You've got to have all the shyness and dreams,
romantic notions and tentative flirting, punished.
You've got to retract all those words spoken in passion;
deny, regret that you sometimes have fallen in love at first sight.
Then, you'll finally be fit-
to forget.
poem by Patti Masterman
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Protocols
What can I say to you? How can I retract
All that that fool my voice has spoken -
Now that the facts are plain, the placid surface cracked,
The protocols of friendship broken?
I cannot walk by day as now I walk at dawn
Past the still house where you lie sleeping.
May the sun burn these footprints on the lawn
And hold you in its warmth and keeping.
poem by Vikram Seth
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Clean Sweep #2
submerged
body tethered
like an animal
with umbilical cord
shark, mouse, incessant dancer
three-wheeled prowler
your heart hums in my ears
your tail undulates
as you travel your seabed
eating scraps
so much time we have
spent together Polaris
navigator of the deep
I give you the gift
of respite as I retract
you from your sea
poem by Walter Durk
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I Am 25
With a love a madness for Shelley
Chatterton Rimbaud
and the needy-yap of my youth
has gone from ear to ear:
I HATE OLD POETMEN!
Especially old poetmen who retract
who consult other old poetmen
who speak their youth in whispers,
saying:--I did those then
but that was then
that was then--
O I would quiet old men
say to them:--I am your friend
what you once were, thru me
you'll be again--
Then at night in the confidence of their homes
rip out their apology-tongues
and steal their poems.
poem by Gregory Corso
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The Caller
After breach in tolerance
one peeled truth becomes incendiary.
Afraid of the known:
pitched against
unknown.
Dying young with stiff upper lip,
the grief,
was not curtained enough.
The malignant spread,
refused to retract a name from the epitaph.
Greed overtook
by calculation,
powerful thrust to run the winds,
the virgin grass will not surrender.
Lethal on the move, a humble shout
was nearer to god.
poem by Satish Verma
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Indian Giver (Unfinished)
An indian-giverr is a name I know all to well.
But in nature their is no such thing.
What she gives she can also takes away.
Why can't human beings do the same.
Well when promises are made.
Presumptions are created,
And then disappointments are inflated by the reclaiming of that was never really theirs.
A loan is agreement that the value of of an possession will be returned in one way or another..
The lack of respect for those we consider our brothers,
Why would you ever say sure you can have it.
Then retract the entire statement.
Why did you make it in the first place.
You say you did not know.
Then you intentionally deceived by giving what you had no knowledge if really could be given.
And now you want to be forgivien by the same ones who you betrayed their trust.
poem by Ace Of Black Hearts
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Do our parents really every die?
Do we try to console a babies cry
Do we learn from our mistakes in life
Do we laugh and cry at humor and emotional instability
Do we stand tall in trouble, pain and protecting a young one's fall
Do we work for stability and tranquillity
Do we play for relief from an argues day
Do we hope and dream in scenes of reality
Do we speak, say and act in ways we vowed to retract
Do we live in hopes of bettering our predecessor’s way of family healing.
poem by Jeff Rushton
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Jesus was the greatest hero
Jesus was the greatest hero who ever lived.
He had the power of resurrection and the power to forgive.
When Jesus was tortured to death, he died for our sins.
We wish he was still here so that he could resurrect our kin.
God gave his son the power to turn water into wine.
Jesus will always be a hero of yours and a hero of mine.
Jesus is awesome and that's a statement that I won't retract.
His compassion for people has no boundaries and that's a fact.
poem by Randy Johnson
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