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When One has given up One's life

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When One has given up One's life
The parting with the rest
Feels easy, as when Day lets go
Entirely the West

The Peaks, that lingered last
Remain in Her regret
As scarcely as the Iodine
Upon the Cataract.

poem by Emily Dickinson
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Iodine

I need you, I knew I was in danger
Of losing what I used to think was mine
You let me love you till I was a failure
Your beauty on my bruise like iodine
I asked you if a man could be forgiven
And though I failed at love, was this a crime?
You said, dont worry, dont worry, darling
There are many ways a man can serve his time
You covered up that place I could not master
It wasnt dark enough to shut my eyes
So I was with you, oh sweet compassion
Compassion with the sting of iodine
Your saintly kisses reeked of iodine
Your fragrance with fume of iodine
And pity in the room like iodine
Your sister fingers burned like iodine
And all my wanton lust was iodine
My masquerade of trust was iodine
And everywhere the flare of iodine

song performed by by Leonard Cohen
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You Dont Know How It Feels

Let me run with you tonight
Ill take you on a moonlight ride
Theres someone I used to see
But she dont give a damn for me
But let me get to the point, lets roll another joint
And tu rn the radio loud, Im too alone to be proud
You dont know how it feels
You dont know how it feels to be me
People come, people go
Some grow young, some grow cold
I woke up in between
A memory and a dream
So lets get to the point, lets roll another joint
Lets head on down the road
Theres somewhere I gotta go
And you dont know how it feels
You dont know how it feels to be me
My old man was born to rock
Hes still tryin to beat the clock
Think of me what you will
I got a little space to fill
So lets get to the point, lets roll another joint
Lets head on down the road
Theres somewhere I gotta go
And you dont know how it feels
No, you dont know how it feels to be me

song performed by by Tom Petty
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Regrets I Do Not Keep

Loosing your innocence is easy,
Like lying to your mom about having another cookie,
Doing something you'll regret, is easy.

Sometimes you have something so great,
And you don't know how important it is,
you don't see it's worth until it's too late,
You don't hold it to your heart, you don't keep it safe,
And then you lose it, and you see, it was great.

Falling to a higher power of want is so easy,
Like waving at a stranger in a car you pass on your way to work,
Becoming a victim to sin and temptation is easy.

So many things in life are given to you to keep,
And some of them you could never give up,
Like the right to show your feelings, the right to smile, to weep,
And these things you take as a given, yet they are truly a gift.
And some of these gifts we treat like nothing, some we do not keep.

Becoming and doing something you would never become or do is easy,
Like doing something before you think,
Falling into the hole of regret is easy.

In life you must live for what you have, not the past.
You must realize what you did and notice how it hurt you so,
But never regret what you have done, for that shall only form a cast,
A cast of what you were, one that keeps you still in a solid state,
You must learn; never live in the past.

I believe in the past, yet it is the present I keep,
I move on past things i have done, I do not look back,
For these regrets, I do not keep.

by: Bethany M.
April 16,2009

poem by Bethany Maxwell
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Go West

Safe on the interstate
New york is three thousand miles away
And Im not looking forward to following through
But its better than always running back into you
Ive closed my eyes and my bank account
And gone west, young man
Take off the parking brake
Go coasting into a different state and Im not looking forward to missing you
But I must have something better to do
Ive got to tear my life apart and go west, young man
And it feels like Ive got something to prove
But in some ways its just something to do
My friends turn me around and say, you go west, young man
Stepping down off my platform shoes
69 in the afternoon
And Im waiting for someone in the know
Like pirner tells me on the radio
Says take it from someone whos been there before
You go west, young man and Im looking for somebody to do my thinking for me till I come through
The state-line highway sign says you have gone west, young man
And it feels like Ive got something to prove
But in some ways its just something to do
The state-line highway sign says you have gone west, young man

song performed by by Liz Phair
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Parting

No more to feel the revelry,
between hearts yours and mine,
or smell the scented rose
on the prickly vine.
Descending clouds of parting,
like a stake in crevice, fall.
For there is no link,
beyond this sudden wall.
We stand here for a moment,
midst infinities waste.
Our kisses sweet sorrow,
the last we shall taste.
Tomorrow will never come,
we only live for today.
No more time can we borrow,
no more can we stay.
Sadness may remain
in the years that pass.
For no moment is without doubt,
that our parting is wrong,
that we should be strong,
take the rough with the smooth,
regardless gain or loose.
But something greater calls.
To answer I must go.
So lets have no tears of sorrow,
to stain our parting so.
The sun will rise in the morning,
our lives begin again.
We’ll search out new joys
and search out new friends.

poem by David Harris
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Science Fiction

["Fields Of Regret" with changed lyrics]
Forever I'll enjoy you underchevement
I gonna see you every day now if I can
Why then don't the night show really matters
I still wake on the fields of regret
There is something to this dream we're all involved in
wow, Can I see it, can I say it may exist
Rest me, hide my years around the planet.
If we dwell in the fields of regret
What horror must invade the mind
When the approaching judge shall find
What sinful deeds from all mankind
With death and nature in surprise
Behold the wretched sinners rise
To meet the judge's searching eyes
And when the doomed no more can flee
From the flames of misery
Assist me while I die
Wander through those ever thoughts though if imagined
But come down on it's so easy to resist
Rest me, hide my years around the planet.
Sound another, no part over, won't forget
When we laugh at the fields of regret.

song performed by by Alice Cooper
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Rock Tonite

(myles goodwyn)
Published by northern goody two tunes, ltd./capac - ascap
Well this is it, well alright
Come on baby, you know what I like
Lets rock tonite, when Im with you its always right
So come on, are you ready to go
Come on, are you ready to let go
Rock tonite, were on to something here, well alright
Dont want to start no revolution
Dont give a damn about savin the constitution, tonite
I said everybody here is feelin alright
Lets rock tonite, lets rock n roll
Lets rock tonite, baby come on
Lets rock tonite, it feels so good
Lets rock tonite, well alright
Can feel the pulse, the energy, yeah come on baby
Rock with me, its time to move, just let it be
It feels so good to see you again, I missed you so
All the boys in the band feel the same way too
Its always nice when were here with you
We only know of one condition
Dont wanna hear about havin permission, tonight
I said everybody here is feelin just right
Lets rock tonite, lets rock n roll
Lets rock tonite, I wanna hear you say
Lets rock tonite, everybody come on
Lets rock tonite
Come on, are you ready to go
Come on, are you ready to let go
Lets rock tonite, come on, itll be alright
Stand up (stand up)
Shout it out (shout it out)
Reach out (reach out)
Come on baby, rock tonite
When Im with you its always right
We dont start no revolution
Dont give a damn about savin the constitution, tonite
Said everybodys fine, everybody here is feelin just right
Lets rock tonite, lets rock tonite
Lets rock tonite, lets roll
Lets rock tonite, you know its time to move
Lets rock tonite, go go go
Lets rock tonite, well lets rock tonite
Lets rock tonite
Ooh baby, feels so nice when I hear you
Baby, come on now, feels so nice cause you move me
(now) nows the time to go
(now) nows the time we took it far, far away from here, yeah
Lets rock tonite, well lets rock tonite
Lets rock tonite, well lets rock tonite
Lets rock tonite, the place is hot
Lets rock tonite, you give it all you got
Lets rock tonite, it feels good
Lets rock tonite, are you in the mood
Lets rock tonite, come on
Lets rock tonite

song performed by by April Wine
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More Peaks to Find

I've seen those peaks pass,
As I climbed.
Looking back and feeling fantastic.
To breathe deep the fresh air.
And being aware of accomplishments,
Wished.

'I have done this! '
I can now say it.
I have dreamt that I could.
And did.
What has been desired in my heart...
Has been done.

But I can not rest.
I know my best,
Has not yet come.

I take a deeper breath.
Wasting no time to take more steps.
Continuing to climb I do.
With achieving on my mind!
And knowing there would be more peaks to climb!
More peaks to find and leave behind.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Love...Hate

Love can't last forever
Yet do we give up, no never.
You can't find nothing better.
Better than the my man named Trevor.

Hate can last till the day we leave,
its cruel and it decisive.
But we always leave it on its knee,
while its screaming who we be.

Love our hate,
I won't make another mistake.
Come on baby lets go down to that lake,
a make some chances to take.

You know I love you to death,
so lets make no regret.
Lets make this moment our best,
and be just as happy as the rest.

poem by Alice Spakrs
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Lets Go

Upon the buzzer
Ouick on the start-
Lets golets go-lets go!
For its hi-dee-ho-
You know where you want to go-
Dont be a smoe
Get in the show-
Bounce off the backboards
And block that pass
Lets go!-lets go!-lets go!
Grab her by the neck
And throw her down
Lets go!-lets go!lets go!
Ga ga go go goo-
Vou know what vou want to do
Kickem in the shoe
Till your through
Beat it down the path
And catch that early worm
Lets go! lets go! lets goi
Lets go!

song performed by by Devo
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Run Away From Life

(peter tork)
Peter tork music (bmi)
Lead vocal: davy jones
Lets run away from life together
Let me run away from life with you
Lets run away from life together
Leave behind the stormy weather
Lets find out what fantasy can do
Where well go to they cant touch us
Life is perfect nothing more to do
Nothing more than well be needin
Life is paradise in eden
Eatin grapes and makin love with you
Rest unchanging, no more fights
We wont ever even disagree
Lets go off into the heavens
In eternal happiness for free
Nothings wrong, no strings attached
No reason to get crazy, never blue
Nothin from your noisy neighbor,
Nothins new, no trial, no labor
Cross the river jordan, hallelue
Rest unchanging, no more fights
We wont ever even disagree
Lets go off into the heavens
In eternal happiness for free

song performed by by Monkees
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The framework I found, which made the decision [to start Amazon in 1994] incredibly easy, was what I called a regret minimization framework. I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'OK, I'm looking back on my life. I want to minimize the number of regrets I have.' And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn't regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.

quote by Jeff Bezos
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Every cat had a day.

Regret not you were born poor
As you have grown to die rich.
Regret not you are dying poor
As you were born rich.
Regret not being poor throughout
As you were spared of many sins.
Do die being proud of the peaks
Formed of the heaps you made.
14.01.2007

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Easy Livin'

Leo Robin / Ralph Rainger
Living for you is easy living
It's easy to live when you're in love
And I'm so in love
There is nothing in life but you
I never regret the years that I'm giving
They're easy to give when you're in love
I'm happy to do whatever I do for you
For you maybe I'm a fool
But it's fun
People say you rule me with one wave of your hand
Darling, it's grand
They just don't understand
Living for you is easy living
It's easy to live when you're in love
And I'm so in love
There's nothing in life but you

song performed by by Billie Holiday
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The Learning Of Truth

Learning thickens ego.
Thickening is cataract.
With cataract ego,
God men fail to see the truth.

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Joy, Forever

I know not why my mind feels gay
with the trees, I want to sway

in the midst of flowers, I want to play
I feel some joy, I've found today

Joy, it feels, like a candle lit,
fairies of hope surrounding it

It feels to me like the glowing Sun,
like a yarn of happiness unspun

It feels like a top, swerving around
on its tip, dancing, along the ground
Joy, it seems, like a dropp in an ocean,

It feels like the drink of a magic potion

Joy, I hope, you forever remain
always ready to relieve my pain,

To let life see me smile always
Through out the nights, and my days.

poem by Vishnu Sampoorn
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My questioin to suicide

My gentle slow suicide is what I think about every day,
my life is nothing but another no one feels my pain,

I though about just running away but that wont do anything
except give me more days in this place,

My life is messed up there is no other way out and im taking it,
it wont matter what any one says! The only question is how will I do it?

Cut myself tell I loose to much blood? No that won’t work that’s too much fun!
Strangle myself upon a tree? No that wont work people will see,

Cut my throat and choke to death? That my work but lets see the rest,
have another over dose? No that wont work its like flirting with death,
I shall think of more ways to put me to rest.

poem by Liera Bloodheart
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My Question To Suicide

My gentle slow suicide is what I think about every day,
my life is nothing but another no one feels my pain,

I though about just running away but that wont do anything except give me more days in this place,

my life is messed up there is no other way out and im taking it,

it wont matter what any one says! The only question is how will I do it?

Cut myself tell I loose to much blood? No that won’t work that’s too much fun!

Strangle myself upon a tree? No that wont work people will see,

cut my throat and choke to death? That my work but lets see the rest,

have another over dose? No that wont work its like flirting with death, I shall think of more ways to put me to rest.

poem by Amber Vasquez
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Cmon

Cmon cmon cmon
When nothings funny
It gets easy to laugh
At the drop of a hat or a bomb
When someones screaming
Its hard to ignore
Like the shot of a gun cmon
Lets run to a place somewhere
The party never ends
Lets run till theres no way
To go on cmon
Cant you hear the sirens blowing
Cant you hear them call
Cant you see the lasers probing
Brighter than the sun
Lets run
Cmon cmon cmon
Cmon cmon cmon
Lets run from a promise
That could never be kept
Lets run or its sure to chase us down
Well cmon lets run
Cmon lets run
Cmon lets run
Well cmon
Cmon cmon cmon
When no ones laughing
You can bet theyve been paid
Not to find out whats going on
When somethings funny
Theres a feeling you get
Its the grip of a threat cmon