Don't judge a book by its cover.
Love is better than hate. 

Life's too short to waste opportunities 
you have the chance to take.

One day you could be alive and the next you could be dead,
so keep your head held high with a big smile on your face!

Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/love-is-better-than-hate

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I like this poem because it be come aware of life. Don’t waste your time on the bad things, Don’t get stuck in the past stop hating and dare to forgive. Let bygones be bygones. You have to continue live happily and make life fullest.

- Translated by JANE HIRSHFIELD 1994 -

O friends, I am mad

with love, and no one sees.

My mattress is a sword-point,

how can I sleep

when the bed of my Beloved

is spread open elsewhere?

Only those who have felt the knife

can understand the wound,

only the jeweler

knows the nature of the Jewel.

I have lost it,

and though anguish takes me door to door

no doctor answers. 

Mira calls her Lord: O Dark One,

Only You can heal this pain.

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I like this poem because it makes me feel sad and feel sympathize about the painful and loneliness of losing a lover. No one can heal her from this painful even the doctor. Just only her Lord (The Dark One) can heal this pain 🥹😭 so sad.

I know well about the sadness of loss, and it is true when they say time is a great healer. My grandma is still in my heart and memory.

This poem reminds me that death is common. We need to accept it even if it's very hard. Our life is still going on like every normal day and I have deep faith and I believe that someday we will meet again.

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I like this poem because it can give encouragement to people who struggle with the problem. This poem help the readers have encouragement to deal with problem and I really like this line says,

“Despite the breaking,

your heart will feel

like it belongs in the

land of joy once more.

This is how it will

always be. Keep living.”

This touched my heart.

TRANSLATED BY Jane hirshfield

The great sea

frees me, moves me,

as a strong river carries a weed.

Earth and her strong winds

move me, take me away,

and my soul is swept up in joy.
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I like this poem because it is about spiritual joy. When I read it, I feel like I am flowing with the water and the wind to the joy world.🍃

I like how the poet compares the word fire and ice with the destructive features of human emotions.

Fire refers to the emotion of desire, the fire is pure passion.

Ice refers to the emotion of hatred, the ice is pure reason.

This poem profoundly gave me the idea that how would the world end?

In my opinion, I think the world would end with fire because people have a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen such as the war that causes the loss of life's just because The king wants to be more powerful.

on little cat feet. 

It sits looking 

over harbor and city 

on silent haunches 

and then moves on.

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This poem is about nature.
I love this poem because the poet compares fog with a cat. When the cat comes around us with his feet it's silently and slowly the same in case the fog arrives and they don’t harm or damage anything.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
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I like this poem because it encourages readers to dare to dream, Don’t give up on your dreams or goals, and Be what you want to be. 

This poem is so easy to understand and picture all about the message that the poet conveyed. I like the comparison in this poem, it’s very easy to understand the point of this poem.

a fish hook
an open eye 
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This poem has so few words but convey so meaningful.

I like that the poet begins the first with a sweet sentiment to a lover, heart melting words, but later talks about the pain of love. This poem is a metaphor about a bad relationship.