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Birthday Wish Amanda East	A Hallmark greeting For a birthday Dear Ought to be pleasing Not a swordplay...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
The House with Nobody in It Joyce Kilmer	And somebody ought to weed the walk and take a scythe to the...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
The Strident Chant of Freedom Karl Constantine FOLKES	Beckoning us to love each other, even as we ought to love...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
'Monstre' Balloon Richard Harris Barham	They ought to have put off their journey till June; Sure none but a donkey, a goose, or baboon, Would go...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
365 Rishabh Rana	It is ought to be blood & sweat, no place for tears, Strong as the voice of fate, no man with...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Christ Our Advocate Richard Newton Sherrer	If they say they abide, Ought to walk the same way; Having Christ as their guide, Never to go...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Confessions of a Sleep Rights Activist P. Augustine	A song for repose that inspires But I ought to work In a dystopian murk And have to get up against my...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Dad Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Sez 'e, 'Yeh want to, an' yeh ought to...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
IN THE CONFINE Norbert Tasev	I ought to become silent as a pill, like tears in tired and empty eye-sockets, and disappear into...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Letter IX. From The Dunghill-Cock To The Chaffinch. (The Bird And Insects' Post-Office.) Robert Bloomfield	fair, and that you conducted yourself as you ought to...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Meditations Upon A Candle John Bunyan	Thus none like burning candles in the night, Nor ought to holy living for...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
My Hat! William Henry Ogilvie	When it ought to have gone to the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou Naomi Buote	When you see me passing It ought to make you...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Song Of Summer Paul Laurence Dunbar	Jes' lak youngsters ought...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Show Missy	I'd attempt to capture what ought to be but no man ever had before Not even God himself was quick enough to outwit father...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Thought That Lingers: Part Eleven Karl Constantine FOLKES	Who see the world as what it really ought to be Instead of how we often fashion it Let there dwell within our hearts a Secret Annex of...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot	You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Tragedy of a Clown. Elizabeth Groth	This ‘what it is,’ And ‘what it ought to be,’ The Ringmaster takes folly in running out her...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Twilight Charles Fields II	Restlessly exploring where It ought to be … leading to Life journeys Not yet recognized Much less …our families Must...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Warning Jenny Joseph (Jennifer Ruth Joseph)	But maybe I ought to practise a little...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
We Are Wounded Healers Karl Constantine FOLKES	Deep within ourselves Are the things we ought to do Before it’s too...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Hello Rubber Room Louise Sanchez	That's the way it ought to...	Rate it (4.50 / 2 votes)
The Muse and the Whim Jimbssa V Abraham	A swordsman ought to treasure his focus As calmness cloaks the drumbeats retreating A shade of poise, paints...	Rate it (4.50 / 2 votes)
The Angler Marvin D. Maslen	A fish that big sure ought to be...	Rate it (4.33 / 6 votes)
Ode to Acceptance Santino Maulucci	Voices ought to...	Rate it (4.00 / 2 votes)