WELCOME TO CISSLYN  RAMDEO'S  POETRY

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Human beings are grateful; but only for a time!
Human beings are genuine; but only for a time!
Human beings are loyal; but only for a time!
Human beings are generous; but only for a time!
Human beings are faithful; but only for a time!
Only the Master is timeless!
CISSLYN RAMDEO 

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'*~MY  BELOVED  PARENTS~*'

*~*ESTHER   AND   CYRIL   RAMDEO *~*

~*'R.I.P.'*~

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Men grind and grind in the mill of truism, and nothing
comes out but what was put in. But the moment they 
desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry,
wit, hope, virtue, learning anecdote all flock to their aid.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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Infatuated, half through conceit,
half through love of my art,
I achieve the impossible working
as none else ever works.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

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Two roads diverged in the wood,
and I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference.

If people only knew how hard I
work to gain my mastery,
it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO
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Some of my favourite books and authors


Man Watching
(non verbal communication)
By Desmond Morris

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Pulling Your Strings
By Dr. Wayne Dyer

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The Road Less Travelled
By M.D. Scott Peck

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Princess Daisy
By Judith Krantz

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Games People Play
By Eric Berne

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The Prophet
By Kahlil Gibran

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Do not say things. What you are stands
over you the while, and thunders so that
I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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This above all to thine own self be true,
and it must follow, as the night the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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He who binds to himself a joy
does the winged life destroy;
but he who kisses the joy as it flies
lives in eternity's sunrise.
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
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All music, sauces, feasts, delights, and pleasures,
games, dancing, arts, consist in governed measures;
much more do words and passions of the mind
in temperance their sacred beauty find.
THOMAS TRAHERNE (1636-1674)
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CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE
BY HENRY WOTTON(1568-1639)

How happy is he born and taught
that serveth not another's will;
whose amour is his honest thought
and simple truth his utmost skill!
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Whose passions not his masters are,
whose soul is still prepared for death,
not tied unto the world with care
of public fame, or private breath;
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Who envies none that chance doth raise,
or vice; who never understood
how deepest wounds are given by praise,
nor rules of state, but rules of good.
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Who hath his life from rumours freed,
whose conscience is his strong retreat;
whose state can neither flatters feed,
nor ruin make oppressors great;
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Who God doth late and early pray
more of his grace than gifts to lend;
and entertains the harmless day
with a well-chosen book or friend;
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This man is freed from servile bands
of hope to rise, or fear to fall;
Lord of himself, though not of lands,
and having nothing, yet hath all.

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Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
JOHN SHEFFIELD
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Long is the way and hard,
that out of hell leads up to life.
JOHN MILTON
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Life is suffering.
The four techniques of suffering
for a disciplined life are
acceptance of responsibility,
balancing,
dedication to truth and
delaying of gratification.
M.D. SCOTT PECK
(The Road Less Travelled)
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Some of my favourite poems

~~~Silence By Marianne Moore(1887-?)
~~~Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
By Dylan Thomas(1914-1953)
~~~Sweet Neglect By Ben Jonson(1572-1637)
~~~A Thing Of Beauty By John Keats(1795-1821)
~~~Leisure By William Henry Davies(1871-1940)
~~~Love From "Sonnets From The Portuguese"
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning(1806-1861)
~~~Delight In Disorder By Robert Herrick(1591-1674)
~~~The Sonnet By Phillip Sidney(16th C.)
~~~An Essay On Criticism By Alexander Pope
~~~Ars Poetica(The Art of Poetry)
By Archibald MacLeish
~~~The Sonnet 138 By William Shakespeare
~~~Fragment By Percy Bysshe Shelly(1792-1822)
~~~Injunction By William Blake(1757-1827)
~~~Poetry By Marianne Moore(1887-?)
~~~Auguries of Innocence By William Blake(1757-1827)
~~~The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

HAPPY READING!

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
ALEXANDER POPE
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CISSLYN RAMDEO