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Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow; I am the diamond glints on the snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain; I am the gentle autumn's rain. When you awaken in the morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft star that shines at night.
[A poem about sitting] [Dear Friedrich] [Tropical luxuriance] [The clouds told him] [Are Russian cannibals] [An actor pretending] [The dead man] [My guardian angel] [The dog went] [Things were not] [A hen larger] [The old farmer] [The rat kept] [O witches, O poverty] [Once I knew] [The ideal spectator] [Thousands of old men] [My thumb is ...
Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name.
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Missouri Poet Laureate David L. Harrison describes something unexpected he found after checking into a room with a fly in it.
The poems were long, ragged lines, they had a much more conversational tone than the poems I'd been writing. Most importantly, the new poems, while having a much more narrative structure than the older ones, also had much more direct mechanisms for tracing thoughts, perceptions and emotions; they gave me a way to deal more inclusively and ...
On 30 June 1882, the day of the execution of Guiteau for the assassination of President James Garfield, Guiteau announced, after famously dancing his way to the gallows, that he would read a poem that he had written. Guiteau said that he had written the poem, entitled "I Am Going to the Lordy", at about 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time that day ...
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