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All the bells and whistles along with the candy spots do not cause one to read. There one may pause but for a second in the blah, and then move on for content. News, views, and adds do not sell themselves. What they need is the story. People need people as much as the dawn needs day and in the night the words that touch the world touch all. ...
Posted to The Browser by Stephen Craig Rowe on June 23, 2008
Le vers libre est morte. Vive le vers libre!
I was just thinking today about the long afterlife if this echt-lyric motif of fin amor--courtly love, the love so perfect one is ennobled by it, lives for it, would die for it--that is mostly now alive in narrative, vis-a-vis the many modern retellings of one late manifestation in English, Romeo and Juliet. And here it is on Slate, in the ...
Posted to Poems by zbigley on March 19, 2008
[Your Name Here], a love poem
Your Name Here The fiery hues of a cool sunrise, The placid blue of a baby’s eyes, Ocean waves with frosted tips, The softness of a lover’s lips, In my heart each has a name, And in my heart the name’s the same: [Your Name Here]. The soft caress of short, blond hair, A taste of perfume in the air, The songs of birds in morning ...
Posted to Bad Poetry Contest by Alyn on August 15, 2007