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Martin A. Ramos Poems
- Lineman A simple pleasure composing one good line
- The Fall Of Icarus Icarus fell. The farmer in the field saw
- Near Walden Pond A poet lurked for poems in the woods near ...
- Black Woman black woman woman black sing to me sing to me
- Poem At The Window Tonight the beach is calm, tide pregnant...
- Ratz In The Suflé Der were ratz in the suflé again. My moder...
- Letter To Jane Dear Jane: I thought with all the protests ...
I began writing poetry, and creative
writing in general, one night my freshman year in college. I woke about two in the morning with an
urge to compose a poem-an ode-about some topic
then pre-eminent in the news. I wrote the poem,
about 30 stanzas, in one sitting at fever pitch. Since then I've written poetry and short stories
and have been published in small ... more »
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Comments about Martin A. Ramos
Lineman
A simple pleasure
composing one good line
and counting
Not always
you can get the words
to fall just right
Summer heat
writing three good lines,
counting
This thought:
how many different ways
to express it?
What of
the sounds in these lines,
their meaning?
Looks easy
when the final syllables
just jell
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