Forum: Creative Expression
02-21-2013, 07:24 AM
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Forum: Creative Expression
02-20-2013, 02:55 PM
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Forum: Creative Expression
10-19-2012, 06:23 AM
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Poppies in October
Even the sun-clouds this...
Poppies in October
Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.
Nor the woman in the ambulance
Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly ----
A gift, a love gift...
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Forum: Creative Expression
10-14-2012, 09:04 AM
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God's Grandeur
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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God's Grandeur
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil...
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Forum: Creative Expression
11-21-2011, 06:56 AM
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How I am feeling today:
Moonlight
by...
How I am feeling today:
Moonlight
by Sara Teasdale
It will not hurt me when I am old,
A running tide where moonlight burned
Will not sting me like silver snakes;
The years...
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Forum: Creative Expression
11-17-2011, 06:53 AM
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Forum: Creative Expression
07-23-2011, 10:21 AM
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Oooo! Love it, Sundae!
and here is a...
Oooo! Love it, Sundae!
and here is a summer song from the Bard:
Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I]
by William Shakespeare
Ariel sings
Where the bee sucks,...
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Forum: Creative Expression
06-02-2011, 12:37 PM
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Short History of the Apple
The crunch is the...
Short History of the Apple
The crunch is the thing, a certain joy in crashing through
living tissue, a memory of Neanderthal days.
—Edward Bunyard, The Anatomy of Dessert, 1929
Teeth at...
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Forum: Creative Expression
05-14-2011, 09:52 AM
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Dream where I meet myself
Lynn Emanuel
...
Dream where I meet myself
Lynn Emanuel
Even the butter's a block of sleazy light. I see that first,
as though I am a dreary guest come to a dreary supper.
On her table, its scrubbed deal trim...
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Forum: Creative Expression
05-04-2011, 09:48 AM
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Replies: 353
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Samurai Song
by Robert Pinsky
When I had...
Samurai Song
by Robert Pinsky
When I had no roof I made
Audacity my roof. When I had
No supper my eyes dined.
When I had no eyes I listened.
When I had no ears I thought.
When I had no...
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Forum: Creative Expression
04-20-2011, 08:29 AM
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Forum: Creative Expression
04-19-2011, 06:40 PM
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Replies: 353
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MOAR Edna St. Vincent Millay!!
Well, I have...
MOAR Edna St. Vincent Millay!!
Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely
Went to their deaths more...
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Forum: Creative Expression
04-18-2011, 07:44 AM
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MOAR DYLAN!!!
In my craft or sullen art ...
MOAR DYLAN!!!
In my craft or sullen art
Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms,
I labor by singing light
Not for...
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Forum: Creative Expression
03-16-2011, 07:48 PM
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Replies: 353
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I stood upon a high place,
And saw, below, many...
I stood upon a high place,
And saw, below, many devils
Running, leaping, and carousing in sin.
One looked up, grinning,
And said, "Comrade! Brother!"
-Stephen Crane I Stood Upon a High Place
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Forum: Creative Expression
03-16-2011, 07:45 PM
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I just love Stephen Crane:
In the...
I just love Stephen Crane:
In the Desert
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
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Forum: Creative Expression
02-20-2011, 07:50 AM
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Replies: 353
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Maya
Still I Rise
You may write...
Maya
Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
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Forum: Creative Expression
12-08-2010, 05:25 AM
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Replies: 353
Views: 161,393
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Forum: Creative Expression
08-07-2009, 04:40 PM
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Replies: 353
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Forum: Creative Expression
08-07-2009, 10:29 AM
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Replies: 353
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I'm feeling all nostalgic-like.
DULCE ET...
I'm feeling all nostalgic-like.
DULCE ET DECORUM EST
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares...
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Forum: Creative Expression
06-05-2009, 09:43 AM
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Replies: 353
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Witch - Jean Tepperman
They told me
I...
Witch - Jean Tepperman
They told me
I smile prettier with my mouth closed.
They said--
better cut your hair--
long, it's all frizzy,
looks Jewish.
They hushed me in restaurants
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Forum: Creative Expression
04-22-2009, 03:27 PM
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Replies: 353
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Crow Blacker Than Ever: Ted Hughes
When...
Crow Blacker Than Ever: Ted Hughes
When God, disgusted with man,
Turned towards heaven,
And man, disgusted with God,
Turned towards Eve,
Things looked like falling apart.
But Crow...
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Forum: Creative Expression
01-11-2009, 02:50 PM
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Replies: 353
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Forum: Creative Expression
12-01-2008, 11:59 AM
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Replies: 353
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A counterspell:
How do I love thee? Let me...
A counterspell:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I...
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Forum: Creative Expression
12-01-2008, 11:58 AM
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Replies: 353
Views: 161,393
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Forum: Creative Expression
09-19-2008, 04:07 PM
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Replies: 353
Views: 161,393
Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver
You do not have...
Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body...
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