Brazen Sun
A brazen sun glorified me as I spoke,
With diligent courts that suggested treason;
This cryptic world was a dozing man
With liars around and fences so swinging.
I want to chastise this man when prison
Arrives to solely occupy the premises.
Punishing him is punishing me,
For the fortnights and days go by.
A flimsy but strong affair has broken off,
With sturdy drawers to test the occasion,
Once we decide the actual avenue of thought.
Pleasure is at the hands of the priest
Who with the worst of beasts presides over us.
poem by Naveed Akram
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Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
quote by Barbara Deming
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Punishing Kiss
(words macmanus/oriordan, music: costello)
I favour a good punishing kiss
It helps pass the lonely afternoon
Another stiff drink, wipe off that lipstick
For when you reach a certain age
All the most villainous men can be found on channel ten
I make them dance in attendance
we will be back in a minute or two
And he will punish that girl
Oh forget the reason
Just look at me Im lost in a social whirl
She was never so witty
Always struggling to be full of fun
on weekdays
From mid-day to one
In a little black cocktail dress everyone hates
Shell be saving the world inbetween fashion plates
I know what she gets up to in the back of that blacked out limousine
And I catch myself shouting at the screen
I think that its time to turn over
They say its harmless I know
A hundred and ten percent certain
Virtually real
If you need something to feel
Then favour a punishing kiss
It helps chase the wasted afternoons
The flowers and pearls
The long lost relations
That love sick tom-boy comes in bloom
The pointless heartache
That seems to belong in my blue room
Cant stand the suspense
The endless embraces
Each episode lends the silly pretence
Say I can look away when I will never miss it
Starts with a joke
And ends with a punishing kiss
song performed by by Elvis Costello
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One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.
quote by Theodore Bikel
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Young Love
Even though I know
you never felt the same way as I did
and all you were trying to do
was get your rocks off.
You were my first love.
But even though I was young and stupid.
I did love you in a way
that only someone that young can.
I will always remember you as cruel.
But I honestly think you were
just lost and hurt at the time.
I knew I was your rebound girl.
Even though I didn't want to believe it then.
I thought I deserved the cheating
the emotional abuse
and the attempt of assault
Because at the time I felt
worthless and unworthy of true love.
And at the time
you were just searching for someone
who could save your from yourself.
I'm sorry I wasn't that person.
But I won't apologize for
accusing you or how I reacted.
I know my actions weren't
the wisest or the kindest.
I was selfish and abusive in my own way.
But only because I was so broken
and I had already lost all the will to live
by the time you came around.
In a way.
I thinking dating you
was a way of punishing myself.
But at the same time
I really did believe
I loved you back then.
I wish you could see me now
and how strong i've become.
You can't hurt me anymore.
I'll try to forgive you.
Because I don't want to
live with bitterness in my heart.
But some days
I don't know if I can.
Brian's Song
so much to say, so little time
the words ring loud and true
bring forth the graceful thought
of benevolence, brightness, and hue
like others I sing with mr. vox
of strong desire burning
for the one and only you
hat pulled down, weight of the world
weight of the world on his brow
heart on his sleeves and swinging fists
swinging fists at what might be broken glass
i don't believe in revolution
or the statesman's ideology
but i believe in you
if i could rethink myself
i might not act this way
we push the cloak of the world
we wait for light but behold obscurity
living in a cold sweat state
cube of sugar singer
i believe in you
song performed by by Verve Pipe
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The Master Spoke.
Why is the world here today?
The Master Spoke.
Why are we sinners, like sheep gone astray?
The Master Spoke.
Why all this toil, no comfort of Eden,
Since man didn't obey?
The Master Spoke.
Why work the dust of the ground, from whence we came,
And eat 'By the sweat of our brow? '
The Master Spoke.
Why do we, naturally,
Posess the desire to before,
God, want to worship and adore?
The Master Spoke.
Why is Jesus glorified,
And why, for sinners, did he die?
The Master Spoke.
Why shall God return again,
To take away Isreal, His bride?
Why me, a sinner, justified?
The Master Spoke.
Why will there be Revelations, wars,
And roomers of wars,
Nearing the End Times?
The Master Spoke.
Why is God an eternal Being,
But the world shall be no more?
The Master Spoke.
Why is it, that when a man speaks,
His words blow away
As kernals of grain,
And yet, when God speaks, his Word is as rock,
Forever to remain?
The Master Spoke -
'Heaven and Earth shall pass away,
But my words shall never pass away.'
Why do these things occur,
And as it were,
The penalty of sin man did not have to pay?
The Master Spoke -
'For God so loved the world,
That he gave his only Son,
That whoever believes in him
Shall not perish,
But have the gift of eternal life.
Why?
The Master Spoke.
'Go now! Help the needy,
And the weak!
Save hearts that are broken! '
Hurry, now!
The Master has Spoken.
poem by Macy Dvirnak
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Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.
quote by Alan Cohen
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Woman at fifty is real
If not earlier, at fifty,
However staid she is,
A woman is most outrageous,
The time she is threatened by menopause,
The time her chastity is passé,
The time she compensates her temptation,
The time to test her sexual vulgarism,
With guilt revenging mood,
With male punishing greed,
To indulge in sex,
To test otherwise losing lust,
With anyone handy or at hand,
For which, with reborn care for body,
With reborn vigour in body,
With vulture in her mind,
She rivals young women
And hooks out their mating lads.
05.12.2001, Pakd
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.
quote by Nick Rahall
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Punishing somebody is a severe punishment in itself.
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
quote by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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Open Your Heart
And when it hurts you know
They love to tell you
How they warned you
They say dont be surprised
At someones lies
They think they taunt you
But if you can stand the test
You know your worst is better
Than their best
And so you stand here
With the years ahead
Potentially calling
With open heart
Or with a spirit dead
You walk on
Lies the reason
Faith or treason
Playing a part
End concealing
Try revealing
Open your heart
Dare to feel
Take the chance
Make the deal
Being an island
Shying from trying
Seems the easy way
Such an easy way
But theres no future
Without tears
Lies the reason
Faith or treason
Playing a part
End concealing
Try revealing
Open your heart
But if you can stand the test you know your worst is better than their best lies the reason
Faith or treason
Playing a part
End concealing
Try revealing
Open your heart
song performed by by Human League
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I Am Not A Good Husband
I am not a good husband
I am forced to say
because though I have loved
though I have sacrificed
and bent like a willow
and was sturdy as an oak
and learned to cook
and clean and sew
and raise children
and have been a nursemaid to the ill
and have been a jester
and a minstral
and have died
and was brought back to life
thought I've laughed and cried
built a strong house
mended the fences
painted the porches
and have installed the railings
baked cakes and pies
and made holidays bright
and through all this
I have never once felt loved
but still I can't face the sadness
of ending this
I'm afraid the thread that binds me together will break
but the truth is
I was broken long ago
and only remained strong for others
who did not realize or notice
now it is me who needs someone
I am not a good husband
poem by James T. Adair
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What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters
quote by Kahlil Gibran
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The Wonderful Heart
The heart is wonderful
And my pies are producing blood
For my body has grown a prison
To refuse it is huge.
The heart and head combine
To meet me in the world after it spoke.
The days are few, and I am few but several
So that I desire and might need a life.
Life has a Lord, one of the mightiest
Who created my body and instincts,
Like the hearer and seer of thoughts
Found inside, above and below;
In actual philosophy I see like him.
poem by Naveed Akram
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Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
quote by James R. Lowell
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And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
quote by James Russell Lowell
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I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.
quote by Margaret Carlson
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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
quote by Sydney Smith
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