Poem Poems

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
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I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."
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I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."
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A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit

Dumb
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I will give you a poem when you wake tomorrow.
It will be a peaceful poem.
It won’t make you sad.
It won’t make you miserable.
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She asks me
What is a poem?

Her shapely nose,
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The distance, laden with terminal disease
Counting the days to eternal abyss

Fragile, a vein ruptures
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Take a newspaper.
Take some scissors.
Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
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I wrote a long poem
for you this morning
in the pure light
of an untouched day.
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Below the water surface
I put down my foundations
to build a house
with a tiny room
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Beauty is seen daily in poetic duty every day,
Cutie is our Poem Hunter Family all here say.

Far across the globe poets unite here to write,
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your heart beats shaped in a sorrowful poem..

filled by the heat of a hot ZONE, ..
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One night a poem came up to a poet
From now on, it said, you must wear a mask.
What kind of mask? asked the poet.
A rose mask, said the poem.
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The light along the hills in the morning
comes down slowly, naming the trees
white, then coasting the ground for stones to nominate.
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Dear Dr. Pintu Mahakul,

Heartiest CongratulationsTo You!
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(This is a composition in Pilipino Language the first one I did, the only one, and hope some of the Filipinos will get this funny poem in this site. The poem is updated with English translation)


Noong taong otsenta dekada
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The first poem was a wonder
The second was a surprise.
The third poem made me a poet,
The fourth gave me a name and fame.
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His death poem:

A bath when you're born,
a bath when you die,
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(a simple cheerful poem..changing the dusty wheather.) ..............
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Confessions of Krishna - 10


Oh, golden twilight clouds,
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just notes about poetry: .

not poetry poetry
not poet poet
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For October 2022, A Poem Showcase From Bri Edwards, To Share With You …..[ Includes Authors, Titles, Bri's Notes On Poems ]

Bri's introductory poem to the ‘showcase':
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It's only August [a month named after royalty], ... but I have
the time to compose,
so I'll write my introductory poem to this showcase. Some
may read; who knows?
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Tell me a poem Tell me a poem Tell me a poem
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THE RUIN in a Modern English Translation

'The Ruin' is one of the great poems of English antiquity. This modern English translation of one of the very best Old English/Anglo-Saxon poems is followed by footnotes, a summary and analysis, a discussion of the theme, and the translator's comments.
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Introductory poem, by Bri:


Here's yet another sharing showcase of poems; they come from MyPoemList.
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Intro poem ….

My body's getting old, my mind has ALWAYS been weak,
so I hope, from me, no great "intro poem" you'll seek.
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Father poem
Mother poem
Brother poem
Sister poem
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November 2020's " List Of Showcase Poems "….[ Sharing; Poem Titles; Poet Names; NOT*** All Poems New To My Poem List Have Been Used This Time ]


" List of Showcase poems ":
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Zen Death Haiku & Related Oriental Poems

Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
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