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    Sorrowful poem...

    "NEGLIGIBLE Old Star." - Gertrude Stein Negligible Old Star...
    https://www.poetry-archive.com/s/neg..._old_star.html
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    who am I but a stitch in time
    what if I were to bare my soul
    would you see me origami

    7-8-2015

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    Strange poem, but interesting images.

    "Our mother gave us a sack of weed killer". Weed Killer by Fiona Tinwei Lam
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
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    Tragic poem ! Shades of getting dusted by DDT.

    "Pythagoras planned it. Why did the people stare?" - W.B. Yeats The Statues... https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/the-statues
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    who am I but a stitch in time
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    would you see me origami

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    Yeats, The Statues: "Empty eyeballs knew/That knowledge increases unreality,/ that/ Mirror on mirror mirrored is all the show."
    "Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither, Quicksand years by Walt Whitman
    https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...and-years-1093
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Awesome poem ! Very brief for a master... Especially liked this:
    Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes not,/One's-self must never give way, that is the final substance, that out of all is sure
    Hoping this is not true... "Remorse is memory awake," - Emily Dickinson LXIX / or Remorse is memory awake... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/remo...-memory-awake/
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    who am I but a stitch in time
    what if I were to bare my soul
    would you see me origami

    7-8-2015

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    Always enjoy Dickinson

    Into the silver night - Revelation by Sir Edmund Gosse

    https://englishverse.com/poems/revelation

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    Loved this line: "With food for furry friends"

    "Jack and Jill went down the hill" - Jay Scott Jack and Jill
    ... http://satirist.org/poetry/text/me/jack-and-jill.html
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    who am I but a stitch in time
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    Jack and Jill rung a bell with me, so I looked it up:https://allnurseryrhymes.com/jack-and-jill/

    "King and Queen of the Pelicans we;"The Pelican Chorus. by Edward Lear
    https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...n-chorus-23385
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danik 2016 View Post
    [I]"King and Queen of the Pelicans we;"The Pelican Chorus. by Edward Lear
    https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...n-chorus-23385
    Quite delightful

    Ok when I saw this I just could not resist:

    Lingerie - Godiva by Paul Cameron Brown

    https://internetpoem.com/paul-camero...n/godiva-poem/

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    King & Queen... enjoyed

    Godiva... incredible use of language.

    Matsuo Basho -

    Moonlight slanting
    through the bamboo grove;
    a cuckoo crying.


    Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
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    who am I but a stitch in time
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    "Lingerie-Godiva"-original. Moonlight-lovely!
    An (for me) unexpected side of a known poet.
    "Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes" Oscar Wilde, Sonnet to Liberty
    https://englishverse.com/poems/sonnet_to_liberty
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danik 2016 View Post
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    "Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes" Oscar Wilde, Sonnet to Liberty
    https://englishverse.com/poems/sonnet_to_liberty
    A powerful and interesting poem.

    Only a line in the paper - Only A Line by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    http://www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/poems/ponlyali.htm
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    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    Sonnet to Liberty: "in some things" an interesting way to end the poem.

    Only...: "But it meant such desolate years"... so sad.

    "Poems are heavenly things," - Susan Coolidge Prelude... https://www.poetrycat.com/susan-coolidge/prelude
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    Both preceding poems speaking about the power of the written words.
    Preludeis a good hands up for distinguishing verses from poems.

    Some good questions:

    "Quoth the thief to the dog, let me into your door"

    The Dog And Thief by Jonathan Swift

    https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...nd-thief-36081
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danik 2016 View Post
    Both preceding poems speaking about the power of the written words.
    Preludeis a good hands up for distinguishing verses from poems.

    Some good questions:

    "Quoth the thief to the dog, let me into your door"

    The Dog And Thief by Jonathan Swift

    https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...nd-thief-36081
    Both rather enjoyable and rather apt

    Rebellion is my theme all day - The Modern Patriot by William Cowper

    https://internetpoem.com/william-cow...-patriot-poem/

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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