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Write a poem about the picture you see above. Be sure to post it to the category Challenge-Picture. Have fun!
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| American Life In Poetry |
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Camping Out |
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In this fine poem about camping by Washington poet E. G. Burrows, vivid memories of the speaker's father, set down one after another, move gracefully toward speculation about how experiences cling to us despite any efforts to put them aside.
And then, quite suddenly, the father is gone, forever. But life goes on, the coffee is hot, and the bird that opens the poem is still there at its close, singing for life.
I watched the nesting redstart
when we camped by Lake Winnepesaukee.
The tent pegs pulled out in soft soil.
Rain made pawprints on the canvas.
So much clings to the shoes,
the old shoes must be discarded,
but we're fools to think that does it:
burning the scraps.
I listened for the rain at Mt. Monadnock,
for the barred owl on a tent peak
among scrub pines in Michigan.
I can hear my father stir
and the cot creak. The flap opens.
He goes out and never returns
though the coffee steams on the grill
and the redstart sings in the alders.
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| Poetry Site: Featured Tool |
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Poetry Book Previews |
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We have worked hard to bring you yet another great feature to our website: Poetry Book Previews.
The link for Poetry Book Previews has been added to our Poetry Bookstore page." This will bring you to a section of our site that will allow you to preview over 200 poetry titles!
Using the new Google Book Search technology, you can actually preview some of the contents of a book BEFORE you purchase it! If you have a fascination for poetry, then you can simply enjoy checking out all the titles we have listed, without ever going to the library.
We have created ten bookstore categories for your enjoyment. Remember, the actual link will become permanent within our POETRY BOOKSTORE section, but for now you can click on the link below to check it out.
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| About Poetry |
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Some Quotes About Poetry |
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling......A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too- but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.
Muriel Rukeyser
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G.K. Chesterton
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
W.S. Merwin
Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.
Fleur Adcock
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Robert Fitzgerald
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.....says heaven and earth in one word.....speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.
Christopher Fry
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
Mary Oliver
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Robert Frost
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| Poetry Writing |
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Foreign Object Exercise |
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Many poems arise out of everyday life - something you may have walked or driven by a hundred times and suddenly noticed for the first time. Part of learning to write poetry is learning to look around and observe both the ordinary and the unusual.
Exercise: Spend half an hour walking around outside. Pay attention to the objects you see. Make a list of five "foreign objects" (such as a Band-aid stuck to a stop sign or a scarf hanging from a tree).
Once you've made your list, try to imagine the story behind the object - how it ended up where you found it. Build a narrative poem around the object. Or you can describe the scene in great detail - the landscape surrounding the object, then the object itself. Build a lyric poem around the object.
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| Site Challenge |
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Write A Whitney |
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This titled syllabic form, created by Betty Ann Whitney, has exactly seven lines.
Syllable Pattern: 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 7
Example:
In the Garden Year
Voted best
Among the months
May and June
Sprout root and grow.
Soon will dance
On wiry stems
A blend of upturned blossoms.
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| Famous Poets |
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Sylvia Plath |
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American writer whose best-known poems are noted for their personal imagery and intense focus. Plath wrote only two books before her suicide at the age of 31. Her posthumous ARIEL (1965) astonished the literary world with its power, and has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry published in England and America in the 20th century. Plath was married to the poet Ted Hughes.
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| Random Poetry |
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Holidays |
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The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows;--
The happy days unclouded to their close;
The sudden joys that out of darkness start
As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart
Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!
White as the gleam of a receding sail,
White as a cloud that floats and fades in air,
White as the whitest lily on a stream,
These tender memories are;--a fairy tale
Of some enchanted land we know not where,
But lovely as a landscape in a dream.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| About Our Poetry Site |
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