on losing stuff

One Art
Elizabeth Bishop
 

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
 
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
 
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it [...]

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Poetry about….Poetry

Who is a Poet
by Tadeusz Rosewicz
translated from the Polish by Magnus Krynski and Robert Maguire
a poet is one who writes verses
and one who does not write verses
a poet is one who throws off fetters
and one who puts fetters on himself
a poet is one who believes
and one who cannot bring himself to believe [...]

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Frank Bidart

If  See No End In Is
By Frank Bidart
 
What none knows is when, not if.
Now that your life nears its end
when you turn back what you see
is ruin. You think, It is a prison. No,
it is a vast resonating chamber in
which each thing you say or do is
 
new, but [...]

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Prospective Immigrants by Adrienne Rich

Prospective Immigrants Please Note
 
Either you will
go through this door
or you will not go through.
 
If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name.
 
Things look at you doubly
and you must look back
and let them happen.
 
If you do not go through
it is possible
to live worthily
 
to maintain your attitudes
to hold your position
to die bravely
 
but much will blind [...]

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Inaction

I haven’t written in a while; my life is busy. Poetry analysis to come!

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Looking at women in advertising

Sneaker Or Sex? Object or Subject?
What do we have here? This advertisement ran in every teen magazine from Cosmogirl to Seventeen. There are two images of Christina Aguilera, pop princess of the nineties, one of her as a nurse and the other as an injured patient. Looking at this ad, we can start with the [...]

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Going to the movies….

Ave Maria
by Frank O’Hara
 Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won’t know what you’re up to it’s true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the soul that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images and when you grow [...]

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Life sucks and then you die…Or is there a better outlook?

SONGS OF INNOCENCE by William Blake
PIPING down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of peasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he, laughing, said to me:  
 ‘Pipe a song about a lamb!’
So I piped with merry cheer.
 ‘Piper, pipe that song again;’
So I piped: he wept to hear.  
‘Drop thy pipe, thy happy [...]

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Idealistic Change and Cervantes

Idealistic Change 

“Emplumada” by Lorna Dee Cervantes

When summer ended the leaves of snapdragons withered taking their shrill-colored mouths with them. They were still, so quiet. They were violet where umber now is. She hated and she hated to see them go. Flowers  born when the weather was good – this she thinks of, watching the branch [...]

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Plight of Darfur=Yusef Komunyakaa Poetry?

A Poem by Yusef Komunyakaa, a professor at NYU
You and I are Disappearing
The cry I bring down from the hills
belongs to a girl still burning
inside my head. At daybreakshe burns like a piece of paper. She burns like foxfire
in a thigh-shaped valley.
A skirt of flames
dances around her
at dusk.
We stand with our hands hanging at our [...]

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The Existence of God

God’s Grandeur 
THE world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with [...]

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Would you like to be my husband?

The Applicant
First, are you our sort of a person?
Do you wear
A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch,
A brace or a hook,
Rubber breasts or a rubber crotch,
Stitches to show something’s missing? No, no? Then
How can we give you a thing?
Stop crying.
Open your hand.
Empty? Empty. Here is a hand
To fill it and willing
To bring teacups and [...]

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Walt Whitman- As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days

 

As I walk these broad majestic days of peace,

(For the war, the struggle of blood finish’d, wherein, O terrific Ideal,

Against vast odds erewhile having gloriously won,

Now thou stridest on, yet perhaps in time toward denser wars,

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Perhaps to engage in time in still more dreadful contests, dangers,

Longer campaigns and crises, [...]

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Caroline Kennedy Endorses Obama

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/27/caroline-kennedy-endorses-obama/
I am very proud to call myself an Obama supporter! Congratulations on S.C., Senator!
Fired up, ready to go.

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What does it mean to be human?

What does it mean to be human? 
Everyday we are exposed to scandal. Britney, Heath Ledger, the assassination of Bhutto. What does it all mean? What does it mean to be human? This has formally been a poetry blog, but today it’s a human blog. What did the United States experience right after 9/11? Besides a [...]

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