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The things that make me different from you that you dislike, but I've grown to love. What ever it may be don't look at me and see the changes you would make, as though I am a rough draft or a ...
I am fighting against the cancer that has gotten ahold of me. I am in here, would you look, and see? I am more than a diagnosis of sickness and disease. I am in here, would you look, and see? It is ...
So I am not suggesting that you sit down and read poems for Poetry Month, but that you write your own poem for someone whom you dearly love. Love is never easy to express. Rage is simple ...
‘I Am the Bridge’: How a poem being presented at an African cultural event in Arvada was created by 50 people from different ethnicities and cultures. By Elaine Tassy · Aug. 4, 2023, 4:00 am.
It is now 13 years later, and now, I am married to a wonderful man. We have a modest life and two wonderful children, who adore their three step-siblings from my first marriage. This poem opened ...
Here are eight poems to help you celebrate the joy of running—and the joy of poetry. 1. “wish you were here you are” by Rachel Zucker “My life is pretty fragmented or piecemeal.
ALI: And as you lie on the floor while the ref counts 10, you pray that you won't have to fight me again. (LAUGHTER) ALI: For I am the man this poem is about, the next champ of the world, there ...
Some days, when I’m stuck for ideas, I read a poem or two to get me going. Billy Collins, Auden, Larkin, Ada Limon. This morning I took a collection of Les Murray’s poems off a high shelf at home.