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As promised in the comments of my most recent little bit, here are the three poems I used for my piece Put some original text here. Are they not so very beautiful.
Music, When Soft Voices Die
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory,
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
A Thunderstorm in Town
Thomas Hardy
She wore a terra-cotta dress,
And we stayed, because of the pelting storm,
Within the hansom's dry recess,
Though the horse had stopped; yea, motionless
We sat on, snug and warm.
Then the downpour ceased, to my sharp sad pain,
And the glass that had screened our forms before
Flew up, and out she sprang to her door:
I should have kissed her if the rain
Had lasted a minute more.
The Fury of Rainstorms
Anne Sexton
The rain drums down like red ants,
each bouncing off my window.
The ants are in great pain
and they cry out as they hit
as if their little legs were only
stitched on and their heads pasted.
And oh they bring to mind the grave,
so humble, so willing to be beat upon
with its awful lettering and
the body lying underneath
without an umbrella.
Depression is boring, I think
and I would do better to make
some soup and light up the cave.
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And a Delightful Valentines to You...
Bar Napkin Sonnet #11
By Moira Egan
Things happen when you drink too much mescal.
One night, with not enough food in my belly,
he kept on buying. I'm a girl who'll fall
damn near in love with gratitude and, well, he
was hot and generous and so the least
that I could do was let him kiss me, hard
and soft and any way you want it, beast
and beauty, lime and salt—sweet Bacchus' pards—
and when his friend showed up I felt so warm
and generous I let him kiss me too.
His buddy asked me if it was the worm
inside that makes me do the things I do.
I wasn't sure which worm he meant, the one
I ate? The one that eats at me alone?
Bar N
Walking Forward in that Light
There have been five inaugural poets; two of them have read at the inaugural ceremonies of Barack Obama. Can I just say, I very much appreciate having a President who makes a public space for poetry. And so:
"One Today"
by Richard Blanco
One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores,
peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces
of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth
across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies.
One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story
told by our silent gestures moving behind windows.
My face, your face, millions of faces in morning's mirrors,
each one yawning to life, crescendoi
Any fool can get into...
Holy is my cow - A Daily Deviation! Holy...
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coooooooooooooooooow!
What with work and cooking dinner and washing dishes and work and doing laundry and work, nearly my whole day went by before I had a chance to log in to dA today. And what do I find when I do? A poem has caught my eye in the DD section for the day. And it's mine! What a great and generous gesture of kindness that it is. What a joy it is to receive such an honor.
Lots and lots (and lots and lots and lots and lots) of thanks to ~leyghan (https://www.deviantart.com/leyghan) and :iconthorns: for the honor, to the thousand wonderful deviants who've been so gracious and supporti
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I finally answered the call of the links, and had some fun with one of my own works-in-progress.
It was helpful.
It was helpful.