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John Skelton, Laureate
Womanhood, wanton, ye want:
Your meddling, mistress, is mannerless;
Plenty of ill, of goodness scant,
Ye rail at riot, reckless:
To praise your port it is needless;
For all your draff yet and your dregs
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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50389/...
John Skelton, Laureate
Womanhood, wanton, ye want:
Your meddling, mistress, is mannerless;
Plenty of ill, of goodness scant,
Ye rail at riot, reckless:
To praise your port it is needless;
For all your draff yet and your dregs
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50389/...
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I call this number
For a data date
For a data date
I don't know what to do
I don't know what to do
I need a rendezvous
I need a rendezvous
Computer love
Computer love
Computer love
Computer love
youtu.be/wFoToZ9caDg
I call this number
For a data date
For a data date
I don't know what to do
I don't know what to do
I need a rendezvous
I need a rendezvous
Computer love
Computer love
Computer love
Computer love
youtu.be/wFoToZ9caDg
-Kyle Dargan
with clear-cased woofers for heads,
no eyes. They see us as a bat sees
a mosquito—a fleshy echo,
a morsel of sound. You've heard
their intergalactic tour busses
purring at our stratosphere's curb.
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58202/...
-Kyle Dargan
with clear-cased woofers for heads,
no eyes. They see us as a bat sees
a mosquito—a fleshy echo,
a morsel of sound. You've heard
their intergalactic tour busses
purring at our stratosphere's curb.
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58202/...
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The spirit of this world would heal and rise
Vast are the shadows that straddle and strafe
And struggle in the darkness troubling my eyes
Shaped like a lion, it has the head of a man
With a gaze as blank and pitiless as the sun
youtu.be/D9hVOsuKuMY
The spirit of this world would heal and rise
Vast are the shadows that straddle and strafe
And struggle in the darkness troubling my eyes
Shaped like a lion, it has the head of a man
With a gaze as blank and pitiless as the sun
youtu.be/D9hVOsuKuMY
-WB Yeats
[...]
somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...
-WB Yeats
[...]
somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...
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-Charles Simic
There's a book called
"A Dictionary of Angels."
No one has opened it in fifty years,
I know, because when I did,
The covers creaked, the pages
Crumbled. There I discovered
The angels were once as plentiful
As species of flies.
[...]
poets.org/poem/library
-Charles Simic
There's a book called
"A Dictionary of Angels."
No one has opened it in fifty years,
I know, because when I did,
The covers creaked, the pages
Crumbled. There I discovered
The angels were once as plentiful
As species of flies.
[...]
poets.org/poem/library
Stumbling through the barrio
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women
She's perfect for you
Man, there's got to be somebody for me
I wanna be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone
Just a little more funky
When everybody loves you
youtu.be/-oqAU5VxFWs
Stumbling through the barrio
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women
She's perfect for you
Man, there's got to be somebody for me
I wanna be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone
Just a little more funky
When everybody loves you
youtu.be/-oqAU5VxFWs
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-Philip Larkin
[...]
Since someone will forever be surprising
A hunger in himself to be more serious,
And gravitating with it to this ground,
Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in,
If only that so many dead lie round.
thepoetryhour.com/poems/church...
-Philip Larkin
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Since someone will forever be surprising
A hunger in himself to be more serious,
And gravitating with it to this ground,
Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in,
If only that so many dead lie round.
thepoetryhour.com/poems/church...
Maybe one day we'll be strong enough To build it back again
Build the peaceable kingdom Back again
The People have the power to redeem the work of fools
youtu.be/SUlNixgSQIA
Maybe one day we'll be strong enough To build it back again
Build the peaceable kingdom Back again
The People have the power to redeem the work of fools
youtu.be/SUlNixgSQIA
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-Stanley Plumly
The end, I think, will be a little like looking down as far as I can see to where the wind has kicked up the tide and turned it all the same—sea, spume, the air. There might even be someone walking toward me, [...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
-Stanley Plumly
The end, I think, will be a little like looking down as far as I can see to where the wind has kicked up the tide and turned it all the same—sea, spume, the air. There might even be someone walking toward me, [...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Strike the street, quicksilver moon
Carriage across the fog
Two-step to lamp lights cellar tune
The laughs come hard in "Auld Lang Syne"
The glass was raised, the fired rose
The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting
youtu.be/9DRtMBowKRs
Strike the street, quicksilver moon
Carriage across the fog
Two-step to lamp lights cellar tune
The laughs come hard in "Auld Lang Syne"
The glass was raised, the fired rose
The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting
youtu.be/9DRtMBowKRs
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-Richard Jones
“Poetry not rest,” is trouble’s answer,
rising before the sun, setting out
in a gray light to the dull grumble
of thunder to balance the words
bottle or old wooden chair or bluebird
on a line’s life-or-death tightrope,
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154343...
-Richard Jones
“Poetry not rest,” is trouble’s answer,
rising before the sun, setting out
in a gray light to the dull grumble
of thunder to balance the words
bottle or old wooden chair or bluebird
on a line’s life-or-death tightrope,
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154343...
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Time has come today
Young hearts can go their way
Can't put it off another day
I don't care what others say
They think we don't listen anyway
Time has come today
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Time has come today
Young hearts can go their way
Can't put it off another day
I don't care what others say
They think we don't listen anyway
Time has come today
youtu.be/_I4S61Do-Qs
Time to take cover
While others just talk and talk
Somebody`s watching where the others don`t walk
Clowntime is over
A voice in the shadows
Says that his men know
He don`t step back as expected
He`s otherwise and unprotected
Almost too good to be true
youtube.com/watch?v=0R9K...
Time to take cover
While others just talk and talk
Somebody`s watching where the others don`t walk
Clowntime is over
A voice in the shadows
Says that his men know
He don`t step back as expected
He`s otherwise and unprotected
Almost too good to be true
youtube.com/watch?v=0R9K...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
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