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Martín & Meditations on the South Valley is a semiautobiographical poetry collection or "novel in verse" [1] written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published in 1987. [2] Contents of the book include an introduction by Denise Levertov, (poetry editor at Mother Jones to whom Baca sent his early poems while in prison [3]), Martín, an epic poem in nine parts, Meditations on the South Valley, a ...
Thank you for the ears to hear your message of hope loud and clear. Thank you for the hands to serve and far more blessings than I deserve Thank you for the legs to run the race of life until it's ...
Some poets chose to write poems specifically for children, often to teach moral lessons. Many poems from that era, like "Toiling Farmers", are still taught to children today. [3] In Europe, written poetry was uncommon before the invention of the printing press. [4] Most children's poetry was still passed down through the oral tradition.
Celebrate Thanksgiving with one of these poems about home, family, food, blessings and other meaningful (and sometimes funny) Turkey Day verses and rhymes.
Silly Verse for Kids is a collection of humorous poems, limericks and drawings for children by Spike Milligan, first published by Dennis Dobson in 1959. [1] [2] [3] Silly Verse for Kids was Milligan's first book. Many of the pieces had been written to entertain his children, who inspired some of the poems.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day offers a chance for moms and dads to teach children ... Judging someone by their wrapping paper tells you nothing at all.” (“My kids will be re-enacting the Alabama ...
Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in which everyday things and human behaviour are described in a strange way, as if by a visiting Martian who does not understand them. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig Raine and Christopher Reid.
In poetry, a hendecasyllable (sometimes hendecasyllabic) is a line of eleven syllables.The term may refer to several different poetic meters, the older of which are quantitative and used chiefly in classical (Ancient Greek and Latin) poetry, and the newer of which are syllabic or accentual-syllabic and used in medieval and modern poetry.