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Shall I compare you
by Markenson Momplaisir
You look like the first rose in spring
Your voice is sweeter than the birds that sing
You are the sun, and the moon when they're shining
Shall I compare you?
When my eyes fall into your eyes, I almost lose control,
You are the purest angel in the sky
You make my heart beat fast, you take my soul
Shall I compare you?
When you smile, you turn on the fun
Saying your name makes rising the sun
You calm the world with your mind, not a gun
Shall I compare you?
Shall I compare you
to the brightest star in the sky
To the most beautiful creature in the world
I can't compare you to anyone or anything
In this poor and slavery earth,
Because you are way better than everything.
Trees by Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth's flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, 5And lifts her leafy
arms to pray; A tree
that may in summer wear A nest of robins in
her hair; Upon
whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately
lives with rain. 10 Poems
are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.
