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Nirat, derived from a Sanskrit word meaning “without”, is a genre of Thai poetry that involves travel and love-longing for a separated beloved. [1] Hariphunchai (Pali: Haribhuñjaya) was an ancient kingdom, centered at Lamphun , incorporated into the Lan Na kingdom by Mangrai in the late 13th century.
The Davidiad is an epic poem that details the ascension and deeds of David, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.. The Davidiad (also known as the Davidias [1]) is the name of an heroic epic poem in Renaissance Latin by the Croatian national poet and Renaissance humanist Marko Marulić (whose name is sometimes Latinized as "Marcus Marulus").
Poetry. 1993 Somebody Catch My Homework; 2003 The Mouse Was Out at Recess; 2004 Connecting Dots, Poems of My Journey; 2007 Bugs, poems about creeping things; 2008 Pirates; 2009 Vacation, We're Going to the Ocean! 2012 Cowboys; 2016 Now You See Them, Now You Don't; 2018 Crawly School for Bugs; 2018 A Place to Start a Family; 2020 After Dark
Variations on the Word Love is a poem about love by Margaret Atwood, who is regarded as one of Canada's greatest living writers. [1] The poem appears in True Stories ( Oxford University Press , 1981), her 9th poem collection, [ 2 ] which is dedicated to Carolyn Forche . [ 3 ]
1973:Clearing: Poems from a Journey; 1981:Mid-River; 1985:When the Stones Fly Up; 1991:The Weight of My Raggedy Skin; 1998:How I Joined Humanity at Last; 2001:Crows Do Not Have Retirement; 2002:The Education of Mr Whippoorwill: A Country Boyhood; 2006:The Village of Sliding Time; 2009:The Fly in Autumn
David Whyte (born 2 November 1955) is an Anglo-Irish poet. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on "the conversational nature of reality". [ 4 ] His book The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (1994) topped the best-seller charts in the United States.
The natural environment of the Pacific Northwest was the subject of much of David Wagoner's poetry. He cited his move from the Midwest as a defining moment: "[W]hen I came over the Cascades and down into the coastal rainforest for the first time in the fall of 1954, it was a big event for me, it was a real crossing of a threshold, a real change of consciousness.
He is the author of nine books of poetry, including Study for the World's Body: New and Selected Poems (1994), No Heaven (1985), and Hush (1976), as well as a volume of essays, interviews and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us. His most recent work is The Last Troubadour (Ecco, 2017).