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Ayyappan is well known for his heart touching poems and his bohemian lifestyle. Ayyappan, who got intoxicated by the creativity of turning the pain of the homeless into poetry, slept on shop verandas and wrote poems – which were untainted depiction of life. In his own words, destitution and insecurity transformed him into a poet.
"Ambri" (Punjabi: امبڑی) (also commonly known as "Mother") is a Punjabi language narrative poem by Anwar Masood. It was inspired by a real event that happened in 1950, in which teacher Anwar Masood himself had an incident in his class, when one of his students beat his mother to almost death, while he was appointed as a schoolmaster in the village near Kunjah. [1]
The poem demonstrates most of the controversial themes for which Swinburne became notorious. It conflates the cruel yet libidinous pagan goddess figure of Dolores, the Lady of Pain with Mary, Mother of Jesus and associates the poem itself, through its parenthetical titular text (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs, i.e.,
My heart feels like it’s going to burst at times simply due to how much I love you. 35. I’d climb even the snowiest of mountains and swim the deepest oceans just to be with you.
Teacher and poet Edward Hirsch explores the ennobling powers of poetry in his compendium of masterful works from the past 200 years. ... From "100 Poems to Break Your Heart" by Edward Hirsch ...
Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...
On Tuesday, Poet and activist Amanda Gorman shared a moving poem on Twitter in the wake of a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that has left at least 19 students and two adults dead.. The 2021 ...
Kansas native Clare Harner (1909–1977) first published "Immortality" in the December 1934 issue of poetry magazine The Gypsy [1] and was reprinted in their February 1935 issue. It was written shortly after the sudden death of her brother. Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri.