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Incredible Crisis in Burma
Burma. I'll ride with the nations and organizations that don't call it Myanmar. Myanmar was a name given to Burma in 1989 by the illegal, oppressive military dictatorship that currently rules the demolished country. Calling the country Burma is a refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the current regime ( Read more... ) -
Pennies Dissolve Into a Fountain (a Villanelle)
Roads unravel a nearby mountain ( Read more... ) -
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Last night I was messing around with copying poet's forms from specific poems they've written...They all ended up more like parodies than anything. Here is my Edna St Vincent Millay. (If you don't recognize it, this links to the poem that it parodies)
Memory
in the style of Edna St Vincent MillayWe were very wired; we’d drunk lots of sherry ( Read more... ) -
Can anyone help me find something??
Can anyone help me ( Read more... ) -
2007 - The W[a]nder[ing] Years
Last Year ( Read more... ) -
Ghazal (of sorts)
(1st line by e.e. cummings ( Read more... ) -
In Mississippi, Poor Lag in Hurricane Aid (NY Times)
GULFPORT, Miss., Nov. 14 - Like the other Gulf Coast states battered by Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi was required by Congress to spend half of its billions in federal grant money to help low-income citizens trying to recover from the storm ( Read more... ) -
Ghazal for a Northern Summer
a ghazal. it has lots of rules.. repeating end words and rhyme word, no enjambment between couplets or lines, a sense of longing. you can read about them here: http://members.aol.com/poetrynet/ghazals/
Ghazal for a Northern SummerI went to the edge of the world to see if I ( Read more... ) -
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As we approach the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, yet another preventable disaster occurs. The collapse of the Minnesota bridge was predictable, and preventable, but not deemed profitable...
"How large a challenge the country is facing can be seen in a report by the American Society of Civil Engineers, grading the nation’s infrastructure. The ( Read more... )
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