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[running late] 'Beginning of November' by Franz Wright
Beginning of NovemberThe light is winter light ( Read more... ) -
'A Thought' by May Sarton
A Thought
The steamroller
That crushes a butterfly
In its path has not won
Anything
Only destroyed something.
Brute power
Is not superior
To a flower.
by May Sarton
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'I am the People, the Mob' by Carl Sandburg
I am the People, the MobI am the people-the mob-the crowd-the mass ( Read more... ) -
John Clare, Autumn, and Writing Without Fear of Repetition
A few days ago Reddit user u/Rare_Entertainment92 posted Autumn by John Clare. The post was an image of a page from a book and I, preferring to get easily copyable text, searched "john clare autumn" on DuckDuckGo and Google ( Read more... ) -
'Hand' by Wisława Szymborska
Hand
Twenty-seven bones,
thirty-five muscles,
around two thousand nerve cells
in every tip of all five fingers.
It's more than enough
to write Mein Kampf
or Pooh Corner.
by Wisława Szymborska
from Map: Collected and Last Poems
translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak
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Things to remember as this world dies ~ by Chris Taylor.
Things to remember as this world dies You did not come here to pay bills and die ( Read more... ) -
A.R. Ammons, 'Still'
StillI said I will find what is lowly ( Read more... ) -
His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell, by A.D. Hope
His Coy Mistress to Mr. MarvellSince you have world enough and time ( Read more... ) -
A. Loudermilk, 'Daring Love'
Daring Love ( Read more... )