Category: Poetry
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Cranberry Spungold Wine
Bronze and azure rays of sunlight peered up over the Atlantic, in the distance the seagulls sweep low to the glassy water. I breath the salty mist, shivering in the dawn. Waiting and hoping to work. A shrimp boat casts nets away from its hull. Tinsel and evergreen lie in the streets, fallen…
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Poetic Sestina
1969 The year was 1969 Robin Stone was the handsome Love Machine Amanda, one of the Beautiful People At nine in cold winter morning She stood out in front of the Plaza Hotel Across the avenue, the snowy banks of Central Park All but one gray pigeon had left the Park…
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Narrative Poetry Fragment
Bronze and azure rays of sunlight peered up over the Atlantic, in the distance the seagulls sweep low to the glassy water. I breath the salty mist, shivering in the dawn. Waiting and hoping to work. A shrimp boat casts nets away from its hull. Tinsel and evergreen lie in the streets, fallen from their…
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Poetry Essay
Multiple Voices and Shared Identities: Defining Contemporary American Poetry The exercise of describing poetry can be daunting, or in some cases even impossible. While there are rules, traditions, and precedents regarding poetry, there are as many examples of such rules being broken and precedents being ignored as there are examples of them being followed. In…
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All the While
The Wayfarer’s Elegy All the while, others walk in the shadows outside the cities along the gantlet. Beseeched in the gas lamps and cobblestone streets sequestered between the rivers. Life follows blistering, laid-back, and mellifluous by the shores resting abreast harbor. Thither in the salt marshes sweet grass baskets weaving are the…
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Poetry of the Five Senses
Sight or Visual Imagery Creamy, yellow butter melting on croissants Clean, white tablecloths in a candlelit dining room Crisp, green lettuce leaves on a round, china plate Brown, bourbon whisky in a pristine crystal glass Fluffy, white chocolate mousse in a pretty, blue dish Taste or Gustatory Imagery Blackberry Beaujolais Toasted almond and coconut…
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Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica Xanadu “You know a poem not far but near, cultivated, Technicolor, particular. Of a pipe dream, like roaming city streets before dawn, steam rollers, sweepers, sanitation workhorses puff and blow and scrape the concrete, air reeks of diesel fuel and refuse,” Ian’s hands moved viciously in circles as he spoke. “Ian, I…
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Contemporary Poetry
“Cranberry Spungold Wine Sent Home to Okinawa for Christmas.” Standing outside the tiny fish shop In the mist In the dawn Waiting to work Wanting to see the beach Little boats on the horizon Pulling in the catch nets full of shrimp Quiet in the Christmas morning Feel the nip in the air Busy…
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Sonnets
Traditional Sonnet By Janet Ridout And you in every sacred silhouette we discern. Lilies that embitter, smell far worse than a weed. For that which longer harbored the concern; Who leaves unsaid the likeness of a need, By haze the image thou be denied! Or if it were, it bore not beauty’s name;…
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The Morning after the Soiree
The dizzy gossamer randomness of the soiree Left us reeling in the streets until dawn Swirling madly in the district Insouciant and blotto That was last year’s Valentines Blinding lights in the cellar when morning came to soon Copacetic and casual Cunning and complete Crumbling and colorful Mending and bending Lending and sending Paperboys…
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Rita Dove’s “Parsley”
Choose one or two poems from this week’s readings and discuss both their subject matter and their themes. Quote from the poem to prove your points. After you have done that, briefly reflect on what you found to be both common subject matters and themes in the poems we have read for this week. Rita…
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The Big Apple
This used to be Times Square Radio City Music Hall The Great White Way Julian Eltinge‘s Broadway Theatre Girls, Girls, Girls Watching movies at the Empire Peep Shows and Madame Tussaud’s Liberty Theatre on 41st Street The Hudson on 44th The Paramount Concert Venue The Ed Sullivan Theatre Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe The Century The…