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TABLETS TRANSLATED BY KAREEM JAMES ABU-ZEID1She pressed her ear against the shell:she wanted to hear everythinghe never told her.2A single...

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29 April 2025

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Public Poetry. Romeo.

Romeo and Juliet by Richard Brautigan If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like...

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29 March 2025

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Public Poems . EE. Cummings.

All in green went my love Riding. All in green went my love ridingon a great horse of goldinto the...

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15 March 2025

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Public Poetry. Amy Lowell.

A Winter Ride by Amy Lowell. Who shall declare the joy of the running!Who shall tell of the pleasures of flight!Springing...

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11 February 2025

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Public Poetry. Eavan Boland.

Anorexic Flesh is heretic.My body is a witch.I am burning it.Yes I am torchingber curves and paps and wiles.They scorch...

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16 January 2025

2024

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Public Poetry. Li-Young Lee.

The Gift. To pull the metal splinter from my palmmy father recited a story in a low voice.I watched his...

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28 October 2024

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Public Poetry. Forage.

In the night, a black bear climbs a pear tree,snaps branches, feasts on pears in the grass;one night you turned...

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17 October 2024

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Public Poetry. Mathew Arnold.

Worldly Place. Even in a palace, life may be led well! So spake the imperial sage, purest of men, Marcus...

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7 August 2024

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Public Poetry. Lewis Carrol

Jaberwocky. ‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and...

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20 July 2024

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Public Poetry. Rudyard Kipling.

If. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If...

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2 July 2024

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Public Poetry. Emily Dickenson.

Because I could not stop for Death. Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The...

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21 June 2024

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Public Poetry. Henry Scott Holland.

Death is nothing at all. Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into...

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12 June 2024

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Public Poetry. What is the point?

When things go wrong as they sometimes will When the road you‘re trudging seems all uphill When funds are low...

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26 May 2024

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Public Poetry. Dylan Thomas

Light breaks were no sun shines. Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the...

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13 May 2024

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Public Poetry. Robert Burns.

To a Mouse. 0n Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough,November, 1785 Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie, O,...

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19 April 2024

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Public Poetry. Emily Dickinson.

I heard a fly Buzz. Emily Dickinson, 1830 – 1886 I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – The...

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6 April 2024

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Public Poetry. Lord Byron.

She walks in Beauty. She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s...

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7 March 2024

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Public Poetry. Anna Akhmatova.

I Wrung My Hands by Anna Akhmatova I wrung my hands under my dark veil. . .“Why are you pale, what...

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19 February 2024

2023

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Public Poetry. Theodore Roethke.

My Papas Waltz. The whiskey on your breathCould make a small boy dizzy;But I hung on like death:Such waltzing was...

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5 December 2023

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Public Poetry.(Rabindranath Tagore)

Babys Way. If baby only wanted to, he could fly up to heaven this moment.It is not for nothing that...

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15 November 2023

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Public Poetry. Robert Frost.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I...

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19 August 2023

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Public Poetry. T.S ELIOT.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. T. S. Eliot – 1888-1965 S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai...

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22 January 2023

2022

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Public Poetry. Depression-viola tabor

Dear friends, a very good and close friend of mine, who wrote this poem sadly passed away a few days...

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12 September 2022

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Public Poetry. Sara Teasdale.

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30 August 2022

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Public Poetry. Robert Burns.

Address to the Devil. O Prince, O chief of many throned pow’rs!That led th’ embattled seraphim to war!(Milton, Paradise Lost)O thou!...

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23 August 2022

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Public Poetry. Shel Silverstein.

Dirty Face. Where did you get such a dirty face, My darling dirty-faced child? I got it from crawling along...

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13 August 2022

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Public Poetry. Charles Bukowski.

About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI he lives in a house with a swimming pool and says the...

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1 August 2022

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Public Poetry.(Margaret Atwood)

Siren Song by Margaret Atwood This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible:...

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28 June 2022

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Public Poetry. E.B. Browning.

Aurora Leigh, First Book. In those days, though, I never analysed Myself even. All analysis comes late. You catch a...

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12 May 2022

2021

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Public Poetry. Jack Prelutsky.

The Bogeyman. In the desolate depths of a perilous placethe bogeyman lurks, with a snarl on his face.Never dare, never...

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3 August 2021

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Public Poetry. Wanda Coleman.

About God and things. 1 i want to have your child cuz upon losing you i’ll have more than...

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12 April 2021

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Public Poetry. Sylvia Plath.

Ariel. Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue Pour of tor and distances. God’s lioness, How one we grow, Pivot...

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23 February 2021

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