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The Disappearing Volcanic Islands, Paper & Garagula

Paper was a volcanic island close to the French protectorate, Car de Bord, in the South Pacific. The 1779 eruption was cataclysmic. The island, with its small populace, was wholly obliterated and would have passed from human ken had it not been for...

18 comments    poetry history humour
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How to Deal With Poetry

Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash did an MTV special about songs they had written. They would sing the song and then tell the story of how it came to be. Willie Nelson had sung the song “Crazy” that had...

8 comments    advice how poetry
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Paradise

There's a solitary Island in the sea Where no one can go but me, Forsaken in the impure brown beaches thirsting for fresh calm waters but only receiving incessantly sodium rich spray. As the waves constantly...

3 comments    poetry nature beach
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Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist, so-called "father of English tragedy", the "inventor" of dramatic blank verse, possibly died in a tavern fight, possibly was a spy... and possibly wrote the works of William Shakespeare too!

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We Are Naked Under the Duvet

We are naked under the duvet The night is hot The window, uncurtained A galaxy of stars wink and twinkle on a blue, velvet canopy Beams of moonlight gently Tease shapes from the shadows Limbs entwined - he...

33 comments    love poetry romance
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