Looking For A Poem
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Lucy Palladino
(5/10/2013 7:58:00 PM)
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I can't seem to find this poem. I've seen it on a picture online but I have no idea where it has come from and who the author is. Here is the poem:
A bed;
Where most teenagers find themselves for 16 hours of the day,
because they'd rather be asleep than
deal with their problems
And if sleep is for the weak,
then teenagers are the weakest group
It's a drug
You close your eyes and just like that,
you're gone and reality cannot touch you
And if nothing was a priority,
most of us wouldn't bother waking up. -
Bonnie Tavernia
(5/10/2013 4:30:00 PM)
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I'm trying to piece together a poem that my mother performed(I think) in school, or at least had to memorize and was wondering if anyone can remember this
The old cooked stopped in sheer surprise
for on the cellar floor,
Were vegetables huddled, here and there
in groups of three or four...
We'll miss her so, we'll miss her so
the little sweet beet wailed
the onion cried,
the cabbage hung her head...
for the vinegar's mother was dead...
Anyone???????
We used to beg her to recite it to us and I've been trying for years to piece it together. -
Mthoko Mpofana
(5/10/2013 11:05:00 AM)
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Does anyone know where I can get Antjie Krog poems. I'm looking for two in particular, one about a cold winter with snow(kapok) & one called " 'n kaalvoet gedig" . Your help would be appreciated.
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Laura Burns
(5/11/2013 8:22:00 AM)
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I googled her name and got a huge number of sites, some containing poems. These were in English, but I did not look at all of them.
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Laura Burns
(5/11/2013 8:22:00 AM)
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Michael Vann
(5/8/2013 1:32:00 AM)
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Some fifty years ago in high school I heard a poem that seemed to be an older woman telling how she would do things differently if she could do it all again.
I am pretty sure the last line was " I would pick more flowers" and earlier in the poem the woman said she would do something like ignoring a " Keep of the Grass" sign and she would walk on the grass.
I saw " Warning" by Jenny Joseph and that is not the poem - - -unless my memory has changed the poem so much I hardly recognize the original.
The poet probably had a well known name - well enough that an English teacher exposed us students to this woman's poems.
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Laura Burns
(5/8/2013 1:39:00 PM)
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This one, maybe?: I'd Pick More Daisies By Nadine Stair If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I would limber up. ... more
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Laura Burns
(5/8/2013 1:39:00 PM)
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Nic Hatch
(5/2/2013 4:07:00 AM)
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Hi
wondering if anyone has an idea on a poem that my Mother would like to find that she remembers from childhood - 70 yrs ago!
the line I know is " what good is doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late."
Features schoolchildren and a tramp (I think) called Old Grundy?
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Laura Burns
(5/2/2013 10:32:00 AM)
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The poem is " A Day Too Late" by Clement Nugent Jackson Kind frinds this is my Berth day i ham seventy five yers old this day and i have Been verey ill a Long time and can scerce get abou ... more
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Laura Burns
(5/2/2013 10:32:00 AM)
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Chigbu Uzor
(5/1/2013 11:13:00 AM)
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xup
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Sherry Polanski
(4/30/2013 12:32:00 PM)
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Looking for Author and Title of a poem from childhood that includes: " Lock up your happy hours, store them in your heart. They will be a comfort if your world falls apart..." Unable to locate anything via Google or Bing.
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Martin Cook
(4/27/2013 11:16:00 AM)
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When I was a boy I'm sure my Mother used to read me a Poem about a
The Jailer and the Jaguar were walking in the rain
the Jaguar with a swaguar the Jailer with a pain
Can anyone tell me the author or where it came from?Please as I can't find it any where61421Replies for this message:-
Laura Burns
(4/28/2013 2:55:00 PM)
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The poem is by Mervyn Peake and found in his book Rhymes Without Reason.
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Laura Burns
(4/28/2013 2:55:00 PM)
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Sophia Engel
(4/26/2013 8:29:00 PM)
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I read in a book a poem about A boy in Australia, the start goes something like this:
There was a wild colonial boy
Jack Doolan was his name
Of poor but honest parents
He was born in Castlemaine
He was his fathers only hope
His mothers pride and joy
And dearly did his parents love
The wild colonial boy
Please Please Please answer! ! ! ! ! !
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Laura Burns
(4/27/2013 10:22:00 AM)
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There are several versions of this folk ballad. Here is one: There was a wild colonial boy Jack Doolan was his name, Of poor but honest parents he was born in Castlemaine. He was his father's o ... more
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Laura Burns
(4/27/2013 10:22:00 AM)
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Stephanie Mason
(4/24/2013 12:06:00 PM)
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I'm looking for a poem about a person (or possibly a kid and father, I can't remember) , who lights an orange (or it's peelings) on fire to stay warm. It's older. I'm looking for it for my boyfriend's birthday. He's 25 and said he read it as a kid, so it's fairly old. He also thought it was a Robert Frost poem, but I haven't heard of a Robert Frost poem like that before. Perhaps he got the poets wrong. Sound familiar to anyone?
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Laura Burns
(4/25/2013 2:35:00 PM)
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Look for the poem " Oranges" by Gary Soto, might be the one you want.
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Laura Burns
(4/25/2013 2:35:00 PM)
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