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Epidemiology ( consider Jesus Christ )by Astghick Moradkhanians — Astghick Moradkhanians	Listen up!"do things right." Time for spiritual wakening; to see real solution for all earthly struggles! Just face to sunrise section and...	775,261 views Rate it
Waterfalls — Clifford Villalon	Love is like a waterfall that flows forever. A relationship of true love in different directions Through the steep, sharp and crooked lines of rocks are...	63,410 views Rate it
Wild Geese — Mary Oliver	Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to...	28,909 views Rate it
Identity — Julio Noboa Polanco	Let them be as flowers, always watered, fed, guarded, admired, but harnessed to a pot of...	25,957 views Rate it
it's easier than a month and a month — Markesh Dickinson	Looks like plastic bags. Is Windil coming back? Listen, the paper is thin Do you like karate at home? Are you buried Shouts 6 feet, but no one hears ...	22,961 views Rate it
The Gods Of The Copybook Headings — Rudyard Kipling	As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I...	21,972 views Rate it
The White Man's Burden — Rudyard Kipling	Take up the White man's burden -- Send forth the best ye breed -- Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness ...	19,965 views Rate it
The Miracle of Morning — Amanda Gorman	I thought I’d awaken to a world in mourning. Heavy clouds crowding, a society storming. But there’s something different on this golden morning. Something...	18,167 views Rate it
Listless Mind — Zeenat Fatma	I wasn’t able to comprehend what was happening to me and the air of melancholy that was wrapped around me Everything was in accordance but still, my...	14,562 views Rate it
The Defence of Lucknow — Alfred Lord Tennyson	I BANNER of England, not for a season, O banner of Britain, hast thou Floated in conquering battle or flapt to the battle-cry! Never with mightier...	13,336 views Rate it
New Day's Lyric — Amanda Gorman	May this be the day We come together. Mourning, we come to mend, Withered, we come to weather, Torn, we come to tend, Battered, we come to better. ...	11,094 views Rate it
The Unmusical Chair — Climax	A poem a day keeps the doctor away, But what if neither poetry nor medicine can heal this dismay? The seat that I sit in is locked in its ways, And no...	10,111 views Rate it
The Bustards Egg — Longerfellow	Behind me. Frozen Military issued hands down my military issued trousers This is no military issue for me! Chew the fat (grit) of horror,...	9,192 views Rate it
Tommy — Rudyard Kipling	I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here." The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an'...	8,965 views Rate it
The Female of the Species — Rudyard Kipling	When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends...	8,712 views Rate it
If — Rudyard Kipling	If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make...	8,102 views Rate it
Reason, Season, or Lifetime — Anon	People come into your life for a reason, A season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will Know what to do for that person. When someone is...	7,936 views Rate it
The Young British Soldier — Rudyard Kipling	When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceased Ere...	7,291 views Rate it
Freedom's Plow — Langston Hughes	When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a man starts to build a world, He starts first with...	6,042 views Rate it
How Do I Love Thee? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning	How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of...	5,861 views Rate it
The Law of the Jungle — Rudyard Kipling	Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must...	5,740 views Rate it
WINSOME INSIGHT — Zeenat Fatma	Oh so well! Your heart desires of me You painted me so well on a canvas All those dripped paints on the floor and those dried up paint-brushes, ...	5,674 views Rate it
Abyss of Addiction — Maxwell Sebastian Burchett	Abyss of Addiction by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett In every street and town Poisons abound, Tricking the mind, Destroying the brain. Some...	5,270 views Rate it
Blue Melancholy of Hong Kong — William He	Blue Melancholy of Hong Kong By William He A veil of purple vapour flows, In fancy's misty gleam, The sea spectral camp is seen. The street light...	5,264 views Rate it
A Midday Winter Dream — D. S. Fly	A Midday Winter Dream: Departure 9 “I gazed through frosted windows on A pure and fleshless world Of darkened purple velvet skies Where weightless...	5,113 views Rate it

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