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Something Wonderful (2021), Something Necessary (2024)
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-Michael Longley
Sometimes the quilts were white for weddings, the design
Made of up stitches and shadows cast by stitches.
And the quilts for funerals? How do you sew the night?
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
-Michael Longley
Sometimes the quilts were white for weddings, the design
Made of up stitches and shadows cast by stitches.
And the quilts for funerals? How do you sew the night?
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
#askingforafriend
#askingforafriend
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-Asha Futterman
my job used to be teaching a machine
to recognize complaints filed against police officers
that contained allegations of sexual violence
it wasn’t very hard
all i had to do was read a lot of complaints
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
-Asha Futterman
my job used to be teaching a machine
to recognize complaints filed against police officers
that contained allegations of sexual violence
it wasn’t very hard
all i had to do was read a lot of complaints
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunitions
Police and thieves in the street (Oh, yeah)
Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunitions
From Genesis to Revelations, yeah
What the next generation will be, hear me
youtu.be/H01G7hYR45U
Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunitions
Police and thieves in the street (Oh, yeah)
Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunitions
From Genesis to Revelations, yeah
What the next generation will be, hear me
youtu.be/H01G7hYR45U
Say your piece and get out
Yes, I get the gist of it, but it's all right
Sorry that you feel that way
The only thing there is to say
Every silver lining's got a touch of grey
I will get by
I will get by
I will get by
I will survive
youtu.be/mzvk0fWtCs0
Say your piece and get out
Yes, I get the gist of it, but it's all right
Sorry that you feel that way
The only thing there is to say
Every silver lining's got a touch of grey
I will get by
I will get by
I will get by
I will survive
youtu.be/mzvk0fWtCs0
-Mary Ruefle
Beloved, men in thick green coats came crunching
through the snow, the insignia on their shoulders
of uncertain origin, a country I could not be sure of,
a salute so terrifying I heard myself lying to avoid
arrest, [...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54121/...
-Mary Ruefle
Beloved, men in thick green coats came crunching
through the snow, the insignia on their shoulders
of uncertain origin, a country I could not be sure of,
a salute so terrifying I heard myself lying to avoid
arrest, [...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54121/...
I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling
It seems like years since it's been clear
youtu.be/D8_GeDHg8WQ
I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling
It seems like years since it's been clear
youtu.be/D8_GeDHg8WQ
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-Robert Burns
O were my Love yon Lilack fair,
Wi' purple blossoms to the Spring;
And I, a bird to shelter there,
When wearied on my little wing.
How I wad mourn, when it was torn
By Autumn wild, and Winter rude!
[...]
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertb...
-Robert Burns
O were my Love yon Lilack fair,
Wi' purple blossoms to the Spring;
And I, a bird to shelter there,
When wearied on my little wing.
How I wad mourn, when it was torn
By Autumn wild, and Winter rude!
[...]
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertb...
As it should be!
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As it should be!
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He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me:
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
youtu.be/t365MuktYQs
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me:
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
youtu.be/t365MuktYQs
-HP Lovecraft
[...]
This is the hour when moonstruck poets know
What fungi sprout in Yuggoth, and what scents
And tints of flowers fill Nithon’s continents,
Such as in no poor earthly garden blow.
Yet for each dream these winds to me convey,
[...]
poets.org/poem/fungi-y...
-HP Lovecraft
[...]
This is the hour when moonstruck poets know
What fungi sprout in Yuggoth, and what scents
And tints of flowers fill Nithon’s continents,
Such as in no poor earthly garden blow.
Yet for each dream these winds to me convey,
[...]
poets.org/poem/fungi-y...
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- Carol Muske-Dukes
Yes, I wanted them to levitate.
Unfortunately, I hadn't a leg to stand on.
Cut-out camels plodded across the blackboard's high
sill. Yet the desert below refused to unfurl its
mica wings. When I asked [...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91065/...
- Carol Muske-Dukes
Yes, I wanted them to levitate.
Unfortunately, I hadn't a leg to stand on.
Cut-out camels plodded across the blackboard's high
sill. Yet the desert below refused to unfurl its
mica wings. When I asked [...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91065/...
And I'm feeling so electric, dance my arse off
And even if I wanted to, I can't stop
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
You want me, I want you, baby
My sugarboo, I'm levitating
The Milky Way, we're renegading
youtu.be/TUVcZfQe-Kw
And I'm feeling so electric, dance my arse off
And even if I wanted to, I can't stop
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
You want me, I want you, baby
My sugarboo, I'm levitating
The Milky Way, we're renegading
youtu.be/TUVcZfQe-Kw
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-Tony Hoagland
There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store
with a gallon jug of milk in a plastic sack
that should have been bagged in double layers
—so that before you are even out the door
[...]
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-Tony Hoagland
There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store
with a gallon jug of milk in a plastic sack
that should have been bagged in double layers
—so that before you are even out the door
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
You know how I feel
Scent of the pine
You know how I feel
Oh, freedom is mine
And I know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
youtu.be/oHRNrgDIJfo
You know how I feel
Scent of the pine
You know how I feel
Oh, freedom is mine
And I know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
youtu.be/oHRNrgDIJfo
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So he tried another lick
Iceman can't break his ice, Lord
So he tried another pick
An electric lights go out
Candle light will see you through
When you got a heartache
There ain't nothin' you can do
There ain't nothin' you can do
youtu.be/z7BkVqpf7P0
So he tried another lick
Iceman can't break his ice, Lord
So he tried another pick
An electric lights go out
Candle light will see you through
When you got a heartache
There ain't nothin' you can do
There ain't nothin' you can do
youtu.be/z7BkVqpf7P0
-James Tate
The clubhouse was bedecked with blue ribbons
perhaps symbolizing the simpler days of water
splashing everywhere. We were just out for a drive
when we saw it and thought it must mean something
or the boys were having a party
[...]
aprweb.org/poems/precio...
-James Tate
The clubhouse was bedecked with blue ribbons
perhaps symbolizing the simpler days of water
splashing everywhere. We were just out for a drive
when we saw it and thought it must mean something
or the boys were having a party
[...]
aprweb.org/poems/precio...
I know that I'll be living it in Canada
I know I said I'll share the rest of my days
But I was only going through a phase
Am I
Gonna settle down
Am I gonna be
Someone who has to take the rest of my life
To settle down
(thx Alex Maiolo)
youtu.be/iOIu3U0JdEU
I know that I'll be living it in Canada
I know I said I'll share the rest of my days
But I was only going through a phase
Am I
Gonna settle down
Am I gonna be
Someone who has to take the rest of my life
To settle down
(thx Alex Maiolo)
youtu.be/iOIu3U0JdEU
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