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68Inspirational Poetry, Art and Quotes for 2010
Another New Year is upon us and with it the chance for new beginnings. Most of us start the New Year filled with excitement and resolve to change our lives for the better and most of us end the year having...
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73International Society of Poets' Annual Convention and Syposium
So what was the outcome? Who were the winners? Were they even announced ? Did this Event really take place ? I almost missed this International Poets' Society & it's 'Annual Convention', luckily my random...
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73Poetry: Come Home
I just finished this one. Thoughtful comments are always welcome. Come Home As sure as the sun comes rising up into the sky so blue That's how long my love will last that I have for you When autumn...
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67Love Poetry: Come Back to Me
Come back to me! Make me live again, make me loose this pain and let our love reign Remove this strain that make my tears fall like rain Heal it for me! This broken heart, feel this dreadful void...
11 comments74How To Analyze Poetry
Today we distinguish between poetry and song, yet for the ancient Greeks, a "lyrical" poem meant a song—words accompanied by a lyre. Sound, then, has always been fundamental to poetry. The word...
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71Shi Poetry and Hummingbirds
The earliest Chinese poetry is found in the Shijing or Book of Poetry, and contains poems written as early as 1027 B.C.E. These poems fall into four categories: airs standardized from the folk songs of the...
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64Australian Desert Art - 2 - "Dark shapes are real people" - Lake Ballard, Western Australia (with a dash of poetry)
In Western Australia, north of Kalgoorlie, near the 1890's goldfields "ghost" town of Menzies, stand 51 black steel figures; eerie silhouettes on the soft glow of desert dawns and blood red sunsets. UK artist, Antony Gormley, created the statues on Lake Ballard in 2003.
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80The Attempted Murder of Sijo Poetry
"I will go up into the Mountains and you will not stop me." Traditional Sijo poetry of Korea has suffered under revisionist history. It is an art form like no other. Korean Poets are often taught as apprentices under a National Living Treasure. I hope you enjoy this presentation.
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60Atwood's "Siren Song"
Margaret Atwood's "Siren Song" is a short poem that takes Homer's original Sirens from the myth and gives one of them a modern voice. Recall that Odysseus's men tie him to the ship preventing his hearing the...
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60Friendspoem
FRIENDS Friends come and go as they please, True friends are rare indeed, The ones that show up when you are in need. The rest are all acquaintances to say, In order to make time pass away. ...
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