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  2. Boots (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1] "Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War. It has been suggested for the first four words of each line to be read ...

  3. Antigonish (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem is used in Stan Dane's book, Prayer Man: The Exoneration of Lee Harvey Oswald, to allude to research that Lee Harvey Oswald was the man standing on the front steps of the Texas School Book Depository and termed the "prayer man", as filmed by Dave Wiegman of NBC-TV and Jimmy Darnell of WBAP-TV during the assassination of United States ...

  4. John Ciardi - Wikipedia

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    John Anthony Ciardi (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr d i / CHAR-dee; Italian:; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf ...

  5. Nikki Giovanni, revolutionary poet and voice of Black ...

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    Her versatility as a writer was reflected in works such as “Spin a Soft Black Song” (1971) and “Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People” (1973), which showed Giovanni could write for ...

  6. Trip the light fantastic - Wikipedia

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    One can therefore claim that for these expressions, the literal-scene only exists as a highly schematic mental representation: ... trip the light fantastic is a form of tripping." [14] An idiom is considered opaque when the idiom's individual words do not reveal the meaning of the expression. For example the word "trip" has not retained its ...

  7. Falling Up (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...

  8. The Unicorn (song) - Wikipedia

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    The lyrics to the song also appear, printed as a poem, based on the biblical tale, Noah's Ark, in Shel Silverstein's book Where the Sidewalk Ends.In the original version of the song, the Irish Rovers speak half of the lyrics, as well as the part of the fourth chorus.

  9. Whoopi Goldberg trips while walking out to start “The View ...

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    Goldberg nearly took a tumble while making her way to the Hot Topics table. Whoopi Goldberg nearly took a little time to enjoy the view of The View's stage floor after she tripped while walking ...