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The Age of Innocence (David Hamilton)

Accompanied by lyrical poetry, this collection showcases the nude portrait photography David Hamilton is known for.
  • peterek2 published this 11 / 21 / 2009
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Metaphorically Speaking: A Dictionary of 3,800 Picturesque Idiomatic Expressions

Aristotle said it best: "The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphors." Rich with historical lore that takes us from bygone trades and traditions to the computer age, these wonderful...
  • peterek2 published this 11 / 13 / 2009
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How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry

Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of con...
  • peterek2 published this 11 / 08 / 2009
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Rhythm Maverick

I wrote this after being told by some fool that "real" poetry had to ryhme...
  • June A published this 11 / 02 / 2009
  • 168 reads
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T.S. Eliot - Collected Poems 1909-1962

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888–4 January 1965), was a poet, playwright, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are The Love ...
  • peterek2 published this 10 / 29 / 2009
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Last Train to Crouch End

I wrote this many moons ago for a couple of young relatives at Halloween (yes, I know). Inspired by a short story by Stephen King that (as usual) scared the bejesus out of me.
  • June A published this 10 / 27 / 2009
  • 213 reads
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Copyright Hell

A train journey on the London Underground whose delay turns out to be a little bit too long. Inspired by my recent run-in with bobo the copyright robot.
  • June A published this 10 / 27 / 2009
  • 222 reads
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One Hundred & Seventy Chinese Poems

First published by Alfred Knopf in 1919, this is the book that alerted the West to the richness and variety of Chinese literature. Arthur Waley (1889-1966), a shy reclusive scholar, was one of the ...
  • peterek2 published this 10 / 27 / 2009
  • 1,424 reads
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The Brightest Jewel

A poem about deep and abiding love.
  • June A published this 10 / 16 / 2009
  • 254 reads
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A Drifting Boat: An Anthology of Chinese Zen Poetry

Scholar translators of holy Sanskrit texts, ragged mountain wild-men, nuns and monks, retired civil servants, scholar-officials of the Emperor of China, residents of humble mountain monasteries, Bu...
  • peterek2 published this 10 / 16 / 2009
  • 1,127 reads
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In Xanadu Did Kubla Khan Zzz Zzz……

This is a teasing dig at Coleridge, although I do think that Kubla Khan is a great piece of poetry!
  • June A published this 10 / 07 / 2009
  • 271 reads
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Courage of the convictions

I wrote this because in germany a man died because he help some children against criminel young people. he was the only who helped and all the others only look. I think we must think about this.
  • KBFStyle published this 09 / 17 / 2009
  • 95 reads
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Questionable Controversy

Another very simple poem about flowers, I don't believe there's too much of a metaphorical meaning here but if there is do tell me
  • rhysdenovan published this 07 / 19 / 2009
  • 88 reads
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Of Roads and Paths

A simple poem about the potential for life to be different, I must confess I stole the line 'less travelled by' from Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
  • rhysdenovan published this 07 / 13 / 2009
  • 102 reads
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Escape

Escape Amid times of trouble and pain, There is but one escape, For her to have a grain, Of something without hate. Upstairs she goes, Out of sight and observation, A place only she knows, With the...
  • rhysdenovan published this 07 / 13 / 2009
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Usefulness

Usefulness There were always differences, Between others and I, They made constant inferences, That were nothing but lies. And so they distinguished me, From all of the rest, Saying it’s what I nee...
  • rhysdenovan published this 06 / 14 / 2009
  • 78 reads
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Kiss the Rain

Kiss the Rain There is a place, Far and away, Lost beyond trace, For many a day. Somewhere only dreams may live, And thoughts of incredulity, A place one might give, To escape the norm of reality. ...
  • rhysdenovan published this 06 / 14 / 2009
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Wisława Szymborska - Nothing Twice. Selected Poems

Polish-English edition of 120 poems by Wisława Szymborska. The most complete presentation available of the work of the 1996 Nobel Prize winner In literature - Wisława Szymborska. The translation by...
  • peterek2 published this 06 / 12 / 2009
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Japanese Haiku

The hokku - or more properly haiku - is a tiny verse-form in which Japanese poets have been working for hundreds of years. Originally it was the first part of the tanka, a fiveline poem, often writ...
  • peterek2 published this 11 / 13 / 2008
  • 1,682 reads
  • 1 comment

Art

Art, A love poem...
  • brandonfan published this 05 / 28 / 2009
  • 217 reads
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