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Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.


Billy Collins


#authority

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.


W.S. Merwin


#loneliness #loss #poetry #influence

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.


Osip Mandelstam


#poetry #growth

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.


Raymond Carver


#poetry #unexpected

Springwater grow so thick it gonna clot and the pleasing ladies cease. I figure, yup, you is bad powers.


John Berryman


#the-dream-songs #dreams

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.


J.M. Barrie


#barrie #children #grown-up-poetry #kesnington-gardens #london

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.


Aberjhani


#dreams #faith #inspiration #inspirational #metaphysics

When you were sleeping on the sofa I put my ear to your ear and listened to the echo of your dreams. That is the ocean I want to dive in, merge with the bright fish, plankton and pirate ships. I walk up to people on the street that kind of look like you and ask them the questions I would ask you. Can we sit on a rooftop and watch stars dissolve into smoke rising from a chimney? Can I swing like Tarzan in the jungle of your breathing? I don’t wish I was in your arms, I just wish I was peddling a bicycle toward your arms.


Jeffrey McDaniel


#the-secret #dreams

My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.


Andrea Gibson


#poetry #escape

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.


Aberjhani


#dignity #faith #haiku #heaven #human-mortality






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