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Poem or Song?. I hate you with a necessary hate. Poem. “The Destroyer of a Soul” Lionel Johnson. When I am dead, my dearest, sing no sad songs for me. Poem. “Song” Christina Rossetti. But I’m trapped by your love, and I’m chained to your side. Song. “Love Is a Battlefield” Pat Benatar
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Poem “The Destroyer of a Soul” Lionel Johnson
Poem “Song” Christina Rossetti
Song “Love Is a Battlefield” Pat Benatar (80s pop)
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather
Poem “Goblin Market” Christina Rossetti
Now I know all the wrong turns, stumbles, and falls brought me here.
Song “The Luckiest” Ben Folds (alternative rock)
No more broken promises, no more call to war, unless it’s love and peace that we’re really fighting for.
Song “If You’re Out There” John Legend (R&B)
I’m happiest when most away. I can bear my soul from its home of clay
Poem “I’m happiest when most away” Emily Bronte
It made no sense the way love makes no sense. Then it made all the sense in the world.
Poem “For the One Man Who Likes My Thighs” Denise Duhamel
Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries.
Poem “Still I Rise” Maya Angelou
You’re sick of feeling numb, you’re not the only one, I’ll take you by the hand, and I’ll show you a world that you can understand.
Song “Pain” Three Days Grace (Alternative Rock)
Oh you are in my blood like holy wine. Oh you taste so bitter and so sweet. I could drink a case of you.
Song “Case of You” Jane Monheit (Jazz)
Poem “Mother to Son” Langston Hughes
And unless my rage yields to overwhelming love, I will, in all your boldness, tear your living heart from your very breast.
Poem “Capitolo 13” Veronica Franco
A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I’ll sell ‘em for a dollar. They’re worth so much more after I’m a goner.
Song “If I Die Young” The Band Perry (Country)
And the waitress is practicing politics, as the businessmen slowly get stoned. Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness, but it’s better than drinking alone.
Song “Piano Man” Billy Joel
All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street, and the lie of Authority, whose buildings scrape the sky.
Poem “September 1, 1939” W. H. Auden
There’s always that one person that will always have your heart. You’ll never see it comin’ cause your blinded from the start.
Song “My Boo” Usher feat. Alicia Keys
For I have known them all already, known them all—have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, have measured out my life with coffee spoons
Poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” T. S. Eliot
In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs, in their dreams their brains took each other hostage.
Poem “Lovesong” Ted Hughes
Song “Authority Song” John Mellencamp
Every little thing that you have said and done feels like it’s deep within me. Doesn’t really matter if you’re on the run, it feels like we’re meant to be.
Song “As Long as You Love Me” Backstreet Boys
What does it matter that my love could not keep her? The night is shattered and she is not with me.
Poem “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines” Pablo Neruda
I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd. I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud.
Song “Killing Me Softly” Roberta Flack