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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A dose of laughter
- I'm not well. Can't you tell? Kinda low, so, give me a dose of laughter.Mirth will heal my every ill and give me rest from my distress. Now, give me a dose of laughter.Glee can revive, keep me alive and give me chance to happy dance. So, give me a dose of laughter.I'd crawl a mile for a smile; but to get relief from my grief...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Opposites do attract quite well
- When I am climbing up, you are stepping down. When I wear a smile, you wear a frown. When I am very happy, you are feeling sad. When I am doing well, you are faring bad.When I am awfully hot, you are terribly cold. When I am rather shy, you are extremely bold. When I am sweet and nice, you are tough and mean. When I am upset, you are serene.Whe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Article on poetry and two poems
- Writing Poetry for TomorrowWhat does a man need to be a poet, or tomorrow's literary giant? Questions many a student has asked, from Harvard all the way to the community college in one's hometown. What is the answer? Well, I can give you mine, and I'm sure if you asked a hundred writers, or a hundred scholars, you'd get two hundred different answers.I'm sure some would say: hard work...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Robert burns love poem: a red, red rose
- Robert Burns, a poor man, an educated man, and a ladies' man, is representative of Scotland, much like whisky, haggis, bagpipes, and kilts. He lived a life shortened by rheumatic heart disease, 1759-1796, but his life journey through poverty, informal education, disappointed love, nationalism, and literary and financial success can be identified by all Scots and common men the world over. He has b...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Eight poems
- Out of the eight poems provided here [all previously unpublished], four are Poetic Prose, a few Visionary [what I call Vsionary anyhow], a few Free Verse, and a few with more form and structure, more closely to the Auden style of: stanza, metrical rhythm, and rhyme. In saying that, I do believe all the poems are conveying a rich network of meaning, some of them painfully close bond between pleasur...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Five poems
- Poems have different cores, or so I believe, and can only be structured well for certain figurative language-heart beats; like all counselors are not made for all clients, so all poems are not made for the same person, or purpose; when we read we all have our likes and dislikes; I do not necessarily know what poetry is per se, but I do know what the greatness of poetry has, and great poetry is clo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Eds poem
- Ed Gallagher Dec. 11, 1907 - Sept. 5, 2004This poem was written for Ed Gallagher, a good friend and neighbour on the day his wife called me to let me know that he was in the hospital and wasn't expected to live. I was asked by the family to read this at the gathering after the funeral service and copies were given to all his family members.It is important to recognize that we will mi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Because of you
- You are to me my lifeline my security. That scares me. I never wanted to trust again that much I got hurt too badly the last time. I swore I'd never do it again, never let the trust out of my hands into someone elses.And yet I've done it and now I'm afraid of what you will do with it, of what I'll do because of it.My first instinct is, as always, to run, to hide, to protect myself fr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Wondering
- How I wonder what he's doing as I sit alone at night. How I wonder who he's seeing How I wonder if I'm right. How I wonder if he's ever thought of coming home again, and I wonder if he doesn't can my heart mend yet again.Lord, I know that You have told me one for love - that one for life, but that one he doesn't want me doesn't care about his wife, and You know how that part hurts me how it...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anne bradstreet, to my dear and loving husband, a discussion
- "To My Dear and Loving Husband" was written by America's first female poet, the Puritan, Anne Bradstreet. In fact, Anne Bradstreet is one of only a handful of female American poets during the first 200 years of America's history. After Bradstreet, one can list only Phillis Wheatley, the 18th century black female poet, Emma Lazarus, the 19th century poet whose famous words appear on the S...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Let your feelings be your guide
- The light of all eternity shines with me now / My feelings light up my life / How I find my way is determined by them / They illumine my path and show me who I amWhen I was young, I felt so many things / Then came the day when I could not stand the pain / My world was chaos then, filled with sorrow and grief / So I closed up to protect that fragile Self withinYears would go by before...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Beautiful dreamer, stephen foster, americas first folk song writer
- "Beautiful Dreamer" was written by Stephen Foster just before his death in 1864 at age 37. The song became one of his most famous and most popular. However, as with the approximately 200 other songs that Foster wrote during his brief lifetime, he did not receive the recognition or financial reward that he deserved.Stephen Foster was America's first great songwriter, yet he ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Satirical poetry about tony blair
- All Hail.Is your hospital full of aliens, despite new cleaning firms, Antenna waving buggies, And creepy crawly germs, Then dont waste another second, now were into election spin, Just complain, over and again, and up pops smiley smiley grin. You just have to critiscise, or mention cancellation lists, And smiley smiley grin appears, always eager to assist, He doesnt ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Walt whitman, romance with a stranger
- The concept of brief encounters, even romantic encounters, with a stranger recurs often in the verses of Walt Whitman.Take, for example, these lines from one of the inscriptions that Whitman wrote to his 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. "Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"Clearly, ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The monster mash, a graveyard smash (short story i wrote when i was 11)
- The Monster Mash The Graveyard SmashHave you heard of the Monster Mash? I suppose you know the story of how it came to be, right? Well, I'm here to tell the TRUE story to you.It sarted out late one night, when all monsters where out of human sight. Then a tune started playing and I jumped from fright! The monsters appeared! What an eerie sight!They were movin' and a grovin'! R...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Banana republic
- Like a cat I slumber, blissfully unencumbered, Through eighty per cent of my allotted span, Occasionally awoken, when dissent is spoken, And I invent another cunning five year plan, Lately it was pensions, that were being mentioned, So I borrowed from the French and Robespierre, Scrap all that went before, saved by tooth and claw, And let my all equal Citizens appear,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Elizabeth barrett browning: a discussion of how do i love thee?
- "How Do I Love Thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning was written in 1845 while she was being courted by the English poet, Robert Browning. The poem is also titled Sonnet XLIII from Sonnets From the Portuguese.Early ExperiencesElizabeth Barrett was born in Durham England in 1806, the first daughter of affluent parents who owned sugar plantations in Jamaica. She was hom...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Publishing your poetry
- If you are serious about seeing your work published by reputable publishers, there are a few points you should consider. Firstly and most obviously, you need to determine if you have poetry worth publishing. This assessment can be done by doing something that will not only help you gauge the competitiveness of your poetry, but will give you some viable options for publishing it. Subscribe to liter...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The valley of pain
- We were exiled from the Garden of Eden. Its sinless wonders nevermore to regain. So every man on life's toilsome journey, Must enter the valley of pain.We don't enter because of desire And it's certainly not a voluntary fare. But, rather, it's a matter of destiny Compelling and forcing us there.Eden's garden; its beauty so magnificent, Can't be reclaimed;...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Looking out the rear window
- The funeral rite concluded With the pastor shaking hands, Offering words of comfort I didn't quite understand.The undertakers came forth And summoned pallbearers' four. They marched beside the coffin Carrying it steady toward the door.I didn't cry or whimper As I followed right behind. But deep within I screamed Don't leave O Mother of mine....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Writing innovative poetry
- Writing innovative poetry, the kind of poetry that reputable literary journals publish, entails knowing exactly what each word of a poem does to the reader. A good poem should be evocative, skillful, and cohesive, but before attempting to hone these attributes, a potential poet should be knowledgeable of the various forms and attributes of contemporary poetry. A good way to become familiar with th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The power of eating disorders
- I want to get closeI am afraid.Afraid of what you might see.My eyes.My thoughts.My dreams.My heart.My soul.Everything that makes me who I am.My feelings.My emotions.The truth of my own reality.The reality that I am scared.Every second.Every minute.Every hour.Every day.Scared of no...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Passion and poetry, and life
- Ironically, the passion that can neutralize the repulsion for difficulties depends on the effort to overcome these difficulties. The irony resides in the circularity of this principle ? which applies to all areas of activity, including poetry: One must make the effort to overcome difficulties to achieve success and feel capable, and one needs this achievement and feeling to have a passion for maki...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tsunami -a poem dedicated to help aid and awareness and encourage future harmony. make peace not war
- Real Power.One Tsunami, and all our armies, Seem belittled by their wars, What Animals fled, and tribesmen read, Finally Arrives with crushing roar, Wholesale slaughter, purely by water, Makes us seem an irrelevance, Concepts of power, change by the hour, Faced with primal elements. Natures dice, thrown in a trice, In a grotesque game of craps, Whose ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Kafka re-trial
- Kafka lands resurrected in Crewe deposited by a silvery alien craft, And whilst he is wondering what to do He is asked to show his pass Or pay an instant one off fine At a cash dispenser of his choice And they are checking all the time On his irises face and voice.And of course they find that he is not, They discover he just cannot be there, Although he seems as if he is visible, And has ha...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Caught in the arms of ed
- YOU MIGHT THINK I AM STRONGI THINK YOU GOT IT WRONGI LIVE LIFE DAY TO DAYHOPING IT WILL GO MY WAYI HAVE MY FRIENDS AND MY FOOD PLANMY THERAPIST AND MY THOUGHTSMY EXERCISE AND MY EXCITEMENTTHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS AND I GET CAUGHTCAUGHT IN THE ARMS OF EDTURNING MY EYES AWAYFROM MY FOCUS TO WIN THE FIGHTTHAT I THOUGHT WAS GOI...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tsunami day
- A Poem - By Lorraine KemberIt was a day like any other and mother, father, sister, brother, were carrying out the customs of their land. When suddenly without warning, Mother Nature came calling, shook the earth and stole the ocean from the sand.Many gazed in wonder before their world was torn asunder, when the massive wall of water reached the shore. They, uncomprehending that the l...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Poetry ?reborn? emerges in thriller mystery novel
- Since Mohamed Ali?then Cassius Clay?announced that he had written "The world's shortest poem," I have known that I would be a poet. "ME? WHEE!" His triumphant proclamation evoking shivers within my troubled teenaged identity, for I reasoned in rhyme.Everyday, hundreds-of-thousands of seemingly sane souls satisfy some innate need to bare their concealed character via atro...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Catherine daly reviews antidotes for an alibi
- Amy King Antidotes for an Alibi BlazeVox Books ISBN 0-9759227-5-0 2005These poems read to me like poetry versions of flash fiction. Now, I like flash fiction very much, but I like the more fabulistic kind. Amy King is writing the fabulistic kind of flash fiction -- I want to say, "the good kind" -- in poetry. What does this mean? Well, when lineated, the line breaks in the poems point to th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Antidotes for an alibi
- Amy King's first full-length collection, Antidotes for an Alibi, insists that we examine the deceptive clarity of our actions and the goals that motivate us. How does one actually get from "A" to "B"-and is there ever really a "B"? What color is the white space between "A" and "B"? Upon closer inspection, surface realities reveal themselves to be porous and fragi...