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BOLLYVERSES
The poet Joie Bose is also a professor. But she writes like—a poet. The American 2016 presidential election, which, thanks to both major party candidates, is a mud wrestle, has not yet become amateur....
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SCARRIET POETRY HOT 100 IS HERE AGAIN!!!
1. Matthew Zapruder: Hurricane Matthew. Hired by the Times to write regular poetry column. Toilet papered the house of number 41. 2. Edward Hirsch: Best American Poetry 2106 Guest Editor. 3....
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HOW TO WRITE A POEM
Write a love poem. That way Your voice will be heard across the bay; The elements air and water will conspire To carry the quick, insane fire Of love and secrets; your readers Walk on the day; they...
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WISHES
“Some of you sitting there with your cock in your hand/Don’t get you nowhere Don’t make you a man” —John Lennon, “I Found Out” Women never fall in love with men. They fall in love with wishes. Sure...
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DIGNITY LIVES FAR APART
“And in other news…Bill Clinton’s private locker room talk was made public today. And Donald Trump will now be your leader.” Dignity lives far apart From matters of the heart. I would be anxious in a...
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I AM PROBABLY LONELIER THAN YOU
I am confused by the TV news. It seems to choose to show me what is real. I know enough that in my heart I feel You and I can’t quite agree on what we feel. So we sometimes have an argument, or two. I...
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I CAN LOVE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS
I can love for a thousand years— But not for a day. I am sick with a fever, A fever that interferes with work and play. I think of the universe— Stars, and the singing gale. When I attempt to love the...
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DON’T THANK ME
Don’t thank me; I gave you a good time Because I wanted you forever; You left me. Now, hearing bird songs and holding a feather, I do the one thing I know how to do: write rhyme. Pathetic, I know, but...
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I AM TODAY
I am, today, a god To myself. If a god made me, That god, too, is a god, and if a god is a god by what he makes, He is not a god by what he takes, But a fortunate god who fashions, invents, gives, and...
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BOBBY Z!
Robert Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan, has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. The great critic, Christopher Ricks, is happy. But many people are objecting to Dylan’s literature Nobel because Dylan “is...
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I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW
I want the world to know I love you. The world must know. Knowing causes love, as love, to grow. Love can be a secret appetite And think itself love, but secrecy, And all that crawls inside the night...
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I THOUGHT LOVE HAD TO DO (A SCARRIET SONNET)
I thought love had to do With all the intricate things I found in you. I thought love was the only time You could be the single reason for my rhyme. But now I find love is waiting by a door, Saying...
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BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST WON’T BE QUIET
When you and I were together, we rarely made a sound. We didn’t like it when others were around. We went into the quiet car and quietly held hands. We knew touch goes beyond what thought understands....
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WE HATE OURSELVES THE MOST
We hate ourselves the most, And love others, in despair: Who sing to our shadow as it lies on the ground: There, our misshapen head, here, our ungainly hair, A warped silhouette stretched across the...
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THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF TALK
There has been a lot of talk on equality and identity politics, But what will always be true Is no identity can possibly approach the presence of you. The ego is bigger than anything. You may like...
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ZOMBIES
In the third debate, Hillary Clinton promised she would not increase America’s national debt by “one penny.” Under Obama, the national debt increased from 10 to 20 trillion dollars. Hillary has...
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HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE
How beautiful you are Beneath this beautiful star, Beneath this fateful sky, Which turned, and made you cry. Priestess! how well you listen! Beneath these stars, which glisten, In the valley of the...
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SEXUAL ELEGANCE
Let us take our jackets off and dance, In a video, which portrays sexual elegance. You can almost smell the perfume, but no. Perfumes of every kind will have to go. Music is the master. The wan...
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THE BEST SONGS INVOKE THE MOON
The best songs invoke the moon: Moonlight Sonata. Clair de Lune. The best poems? Ode to a Nightingale. The Raven. A bird in the dark cannot fail. See where the Skylark flies? The best poems hide birds...
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AESTHETIC DREAM
There is no in between: You are a misanthrope, Pleased by life’s aesthetic dream, Or, you put your hope In vehicles, lots of talk, a favorite team. Who I am, I have no doubt. Yesterday evening, as I...
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