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Young men preen. Old men scheme.

quote by Mason Cooley
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For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.

quote by John Thorn
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Beauty Queens Don’t…

Beauty queens don’t burp, fart, poop or pee
To do so would destroy illusion of a goddess
Because Icons are not mortal like you n’ me
They’re meant to prance, preen n’ luminesce

ROTMS

poem by Ray Lucero
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Woman’s pretension

Some men threw some lewd comments behind you.
Some men devoured you with their lustful eyes.
Indignant, you grew pungent about them;
Yet you preen yourself for the looks you have.
20.03.2009

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Walking Tall

I'm going stronger and stronger
I'm growing taller and taller
With each and every failure I savor
With the wounds on my naked heart I preen
Like a lofty tree with Axe-made hews
That stops not sprouting new leaves
Nor buildings it's trunk's thews
Nor doling out, for free, sweet fruits

poem by Sathya Narayana
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Merit excludes the unknowns

My dear Pearls!
Don’t be proud
That you are the costliest.
There are many
Still in deep seas.

My dear Diamond!
Don’t be proud
That you are the brightest.
There are many,
Still in the mines.

Miss World! Miss Universe!
Don’t preen
Being the beauty queen.
There are many
Out of contest
For their modesty.
20.11.2000, Pmdi

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Submerged

I have known only my own shallows -
Safe, plumbed places,
Where I was wont to preen myself.

But for the abyss
I wanted a plank beneath
And horizons…

I was afraid of the silence
And the slipping toe-hold…

Oh, could I now dive
Into the unexplored deeps of me -
Delve and bring up and give
All that is submerged, encased, unfolded,
That is yet the best.

poem by Lola Ridge
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Old Town Cannes

seven garden-gnomes just resting
six priests at lunch digesting
five minutes past mid-day
four verres de vin rose
three table-umbrellas
two motor-cycle fellas
one bell and how it tolls
of wariness to errant souls

and there in the wall 's
a vacant niche
where pigeon-saints just out of reach
preen and gaze with ill-intent
would top my lunch with excrement

poem by STEPHEN BRIAN Brady
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Life

LIFE

Glorious is life
To feel the morning's dew
There's no strife
In the days left so few.

Magnificent is life
To see the flowers bloom
There's no knife
In the battle-though gloom.

Beautiful is life
To tread the grass green
With my loving wife
And watch the love birds preen.

Happy is life
With innocent children around
To scan the brilliant stars, in rife

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poem by Chandra Thiagarajan
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Seasonal Hiakus

SEASONAL HIAKUS

Summer

Days stretch out their arms
Spirits lift with rising sun
Bare feet in the sand

Autumn

Leave are falling down
Small Wellington-booted feet
Kick them through the town

Winter

Not a time of death

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poem by Lesley Diane Sutherland
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