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The Tall Edifice That Is Built On Our Land

they all look
at the tall edifice
build on our
very own land
they forget
that no matter
how tall the edifice
is
how it has become
their god
it is still subject
to the limitations
of our
own ownership
and so soon
we shall not even touch
it as it begins
to crumple itself
like the dust in the desert
blown

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Sing a song of Tajmahal

Sing a song of Tajmahal
a fine rhyme or a ghazal

Of this landmark for lovers
ah, a lover's edifice
Complete with medieval bowers
It's a Mecca for tourists!
Tis sensational, tis exceptional
tis truly a touristy place.

Watch the shimmer of its magnificent marbled dome
Moonlight or sunlight, it glimmers of imperial chrome
It's ironical then
that though Indian I am
I haven't yet been to this touristy place

It is truly as they must say, a lover's shrine
a place where hearts duly incline

They find it steamy

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poem by S.zaynub Kamoonpuri
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Introductory 03

I was one night meditating on the time which had elapsed, repenting of the life I had squandered and perforating the stony mansion of my heart with adamantine tears. 1 I uttered the following verses in conformity with the state of mind:

Every moment a breath of life is spent,
If I consider, not much of it remains.
O thou, whose fifty years have elapsed in sleep,
Wilt thou perhaps overtake them in these five days?
Shame on him who has gone and done no work.
The drum of departure was beaten but he has not made his load.
Sweet sleep on the morning of departure
Retains the pedestrian from the road.
Whoever had come had built a new edifice.
He departed and left the place to another
And that other one concocted the same futile schemes
And this edifice was not completed by anyone.
Cherish not an inconstant friend.
Such a traitor is not fit for amity.
As all the good and bad must surely die,
He is happy who carries off the ball of virtue.
Send provision for thy journey to thy tomb.
Nobody will bring it after thee; send it before.

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poem by Sa di
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Song Of The Broad-Axe

WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan!
Head from the mother's bowels drawn!
Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and lip only one!
Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown! helve produced from a little seed
sown!
Resting the grass amid and upon,
To be lean'd, and to lean on.

Strong shapes, and attributes of strong shapes--masculine trades,
sights and sounds;
Long varied train of an emblem, dabs of music;
Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great
organ.

Welcome are all earth's lands, each for its kind; 10
Welcome are lands of pine and oak;
Welcome are lands of the lemon and fig;
Welcome are lands of gold;
Welcome are lands of wheat and maize--welcome those of the grape;

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poem by Walt Whitman
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There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it therefore be imposing in its own way?

classic quote by Gustave Eiffel
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

quote by Andre Maurois
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Form (Cinquain)

Mansions
Hallow abode
A worthless edifice
Without the light of Love and peace
Abyss.

poem by Cynthia Buhain-Baello
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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

quote by Prince Charles
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Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

quote by Abdoulaye Wade
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

quote by Ansel Adams
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