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Grandpa Of Cayuga Street-Dedicated To: Anton Siluk-A Poem
-/p>Grandpa of Cayuga Street
(Back in the mid-?60s; St. Paul, Minnesota)-//p>
-/p>Dedicated to Anton Siluk-//p>
-/p>Who was he? I kind of misplaced him when I was young, his rustic voice, and broken English comes back to me now and then (the old Rus ... read full article | Rock Me to Sleep (A Poem on Death and Suicide, With Commentary)
-/p>Suicide is an invitation for death, there are many reasons for it, a fatalistic attitude is good enough for suicide, or rejection of life per se, claiming death is nothing more than a charming quietness thereafter (therefore, a wishful desire; ho ... read full article |
To Whom Does This Poem Belong The ?Don't Quit? poem is a beautiful, inspirational, motivational poem and has always been one of my favorite poems. But who is the real author of the poem?
-/p>I have a keychain from the C.M. Paula Company with this poem on it, sadly there is no aut ... read full article | A Happiness Poem If a happiness poem could bring forth a smile,
-/br>Then my face would always dress in style.
-/p>If my ears could hear my computer screen,
-/br>From one to another, they, too, would grin.
-/p>My keyboard types for my eyes not my tongue
-/br>T ... read full article |
You Don't Have To Be A Genius To Write A Love Poem Love poems are a wonderfully romantic gesture and can often express your thoughts far more eloquently than verbal communication.
-/p>If you have some talent with words, why not take a few moments and try your hand at writing a poem for your lover? Ju ... read full article | The Lure Of The Limerick No-one knows for certain how the name of an Irish Mid-Western city came to be associated with the short, irreverent, often bawdy verses of the limerick.
-/p>Some people believe that it came from the school of poets who lived in Croom, Co. Limerick i ... read full article |
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Learn About Love From Poet Rumi Learn about love by reading poetry by a long dead poet named Rumi. No need to look for ancient texts hidden in caves...Search the Net.
-/p>In this modern age of technology, busy lifestyles, and obsession with consumerism have taken a lot of the roman ... read full article | The Road to Haiku
?Haiku shows us what we knew all the time, but did not know we knew; it shows us that we are poets in so far as we live at all.?
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~R.H. Blyth Haiku, Volume 1
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?A real haiku?s gotta be as simple as porridge and yet make you see the re ... read full article |
Where There Is a Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes one thing, concept, or action in terms of another one. A metaphor interacts with language intimately, creating relationships between things and ideas not recognized before. When a metaphor is the exac ... read full article | Poetry Critique - Critique The Poem - Not The Poet
The act of writing poetry is something that is very personal to us poets, and sharing it for the first time can be a very frightening experience. The first experience of having your work criticized can boggle your mind and set you back a step in yo ... read full article |