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THE POST-MODERN BRACKET BEGINS PLAY IN THE SUBLIME MARCH MADNESS
This is always exciting, Marla. We now have play between living poets, as we’ve reached the so-called post-modern age (for a lack of a better word for it). Marla Muse: All poets are living to me. The...
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MORE POST-MODERN BRACKET PLAY IN SUBLIME MARCH MADNESS!!!
Celebs are everywhere for this first round match up! We feature a Hollywood film—as it takes on a mere poem! Marla Muse: I influence the movies too, but not nearly as much as I would like. Aww, Marla,...
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DEREK WALCOTT, STEPHEN COLE, PHILIP NIKOLAYEV, CAMILLE RANKINE, AS MARCH...
Poems can be anything. The crowd milling outside the March Madness arena tucked between mountains on the island know this. From the Classical “I’m going to tell you a story, children, listen!” to...
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LAST TWO FIRST ROUND MATCHES IN SUBLIME MARCH MADNESS!
We love the hum of crowds, their jostling, anonymous company, when, with friends, we climb the stairs, joking with each other, on the way to our seats in the Poetry Arena, for Poetry March Madness....
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MADNESS PLAY IN ALL THE BRACKETS!
We present the field narrowed down to 32 after first round play. The Sublime March Madness Tournament was bent in a certain direction when Homer advanced in the Classical bracket and Plato did not....
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THE FINAL FOUR AS MARCH MADNESS CONCLUDES!
Scarriet finishes its March Madness Poetry Tournament (the Sublime) for the year 2020 in this post. Congratulations to all the participants, in this our 10th anniversary season. The crowds are...
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NOW THAT WE ARE SHUT DOWN
Now that we are shut down, we discover who we are; Not the ego-driven star; We are parts To all innocent, stay-at-home, hearts Who venture out, anyway, Because not staying is how we stay. We are gone...
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TO PUT ALL POEMS OF NOTE IN ONE
“old magazines piled up against the hours” -Ben Mazer To put all poems of note in one, Sacrificial cries watched by Italians, Exemplifying hills and small lakes, Cold, held by higher mountains,...
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SINCE EVERY IDEA BEGINS AND ENDS IN A DREAM
Since every idea begins and ends in a dream, And each poem begins with no introduction, As you look for a title or a mother in vain, This is a dream. Forgetting in a dream is real, Even though you...
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MY MIND ALWAYS DEFEATS ITSELF
My mind always defeats itself. This is not because I’m a smart person, For then my mind would always win, But my mind loses—to itself! This is because I’m a quiet person; Quiet is the worst trait of...
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ATTRACTION DOESN’T WANT TO ATTRACT
Attraction doesn’t want to attract At four thirty in the morning. In fact, Attraction never wants to attract. It just wants to be attractive. You would like to choose, sure. But the attractive can’t...
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IS SCARRIET BASEBALL BACK?
When Scarriet was young and the Scarriet editors more ambitious, an entire 154 game poetry baseball season happened: two leagues, 20 teams, and a world series in which the Philadelphia Poe defeated...
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THE MOON HAS LOST HER WOE
The moon has lost her woe, And I have, too. She was right: It would hurt but I would live. It took time. The moon serenaded me every night; The sonnets of the moon, sweet when she was low In the...
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I DID THE RIGHT THING BUT SHE SAYS I DID NOT
I did the right thing, but she says I did not; I spoke the truth, but to her it was a sinister plot Glorifying me, at the expense of her, And so our love ended forever. No more shall we travel to...
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SQUIRT
Squirt wrote a poem he thought was pretty good. It said little, and was vaguely understood. It mentioned breakfast, and how women are bad. Its glimmering horizon was full of Baudelaire. It was modern....
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NOW THAT WE KNOW
Now that we know the opposite can be true: Your spouse can be a stranger— You know someone you never talk to— What are we to say? And what are we to do? We laugh, but we meant to cry. We see what we...
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MY LOVE GETS NERVOUS
My love gets nervous when I compare. I love her here. But what of that one over there? Does comparison have anything to do with love? I hid during the Red Scare. In my heart I hoped: what if she...
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SCARRIET POETRY BASEBALL—HERE WE GO!
George Byron in a pensive mood, before taking part in the opening day Scarriet baseball ceremonies. Happy Easter! Scarriet has expanded and restructured its baseball league!! Gone the 2 leagues of 20...
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THE GREATER GENIUS
The greater genius in a smaller boat Has a difficult time staying afloat. He falls in love with poetry— But not this century’s, hopefully. Into the fire the flagging patriarch Throws log after log;...
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WHO LOVES LITERATURE?
Who loves literature? Most people do not, especially those who work in it. Why? Because literature is too big. There is too much of it—too many writers, too many countries, too many languages, too...
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