A Soft Wind Blows Near
Rounding the Bend through the Trees
Whistling a Tune
- © MLD
Online poetry communities are the sites you join to share poems and to meet other poets who also share an interest in poetry. Finding an exceptional poetry site, dedicated to its poets, is not quite that simple. With so many poetry sites out there, how would one choose which one is best? ONE thing […]
Poetry is the manifestation of of thoughts, feelings and intellect. It is a way of communicating and creatively expressing ideas and perception. It is the science of versification.
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Thomas’s style of verse employs free association and musical concatenations. It sounds musical, but is this its sole effect as word music where sense is secondary to euphonic syntax? Philip Larkin disapproved of Thomas’s style because he felt the verse was too personalised and lacked communicative force
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Poetry to many is an art form that has survived the ages. To the internet, poetry is a cash cow.
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, dramatist and actor, bynamed Bard of Avon. He is considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time and is called the English national poet.
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James Elroy Flecker was almost exactly a contemporary of Rupert Brooke. Both died in 1915 Brooke on a troopship bound for the Dardanelles and Flecker in a Swiss sanatorium. Both of them fantasised about death, Flecker more so because he was diagnosed with consumption in 1910.
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Poetry is the language of love. For centuries, poems have expressed intimate feelings and emotions, and have been used to record significant thoughts and events in an artistic form. Naturally, a wedding ceremony is the perfect forum for a heartfelt poetry reading.Wedding poetry is a lovely gift for the bride and groom when it is […]
The War Poets did not come to treat war in the grand and glorious manner of Brooke, who was ignorant of the matter beyond the Iliad, and their verses gained more attention during the course of the war - in several cases after their deaths.
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One winged angels meet the lightbegging for forgiveness.Struggling toward the moonlit pathwaycharming snakesthat block my fragile resolve.
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It’s easier than you think. Just grab a piece of paper along with a working pen or a sharp pencil and begin writing your own genuine poem. While sitting on the couch or near the shore, regardless if you are alone or surrounded by strangers, poetry is one of those art forms you can explore […]
