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A Classical Example / c&c / PJR
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A Classical Example
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Speaking of Helen (not the girl we know
but she, the original resonant piece whose charms
burned topless towers) is stale.
Some her uniqueness lose; lose homeseek joy
when strong, lose valour nervous, lose long tombs
bothwise. Better her stab and hurl.... more »
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The Philosophy of Composition
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”...I asked myself--- 'of all melancholy topics, what, according to the universal understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy?' Death was the obvious reply. 'And when,' I said, 'is this most melancholy topic most poetical?' From what I have already explained at some length, the answer, here also, is obvious-- 'When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world--and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover." -Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Philosophy of Composition', 1846... more »
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The roots of folk song & the oral tradition of poetry
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The roots of folk song & the oral tradition of poetry
"...Traditional music is based on hexagrams. It comes about from legends, Bibles, plagues, and it revolves around vegetables and death. There's nobody that's going to kill traditional music. All these songs about roses growing out of people's brains and lovers who are really geese and swans that turn into angels - they're not going to die." -Bob Dylan... more »
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Memorial Day in Cranston Ct.
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Memorial Day in Cranston Ct. The trailers are not stacked so much in rows
as they are left like cars used in a heist,
abandoned in their dysfunction. The earth
is hard-packed in the heat, not rich enough to be brown - it’s gray, or sometimes the faded
dun of dust or a sickly olive where mold grew... more »
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Barbara Palvin
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always her eyes
this spring in blue
for love of a muse
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Asa Akira
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is first: she is
a soul spring absolution
my luminous revolution
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TPB: How true love is likened to summer / Thomas Malory
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Today on The Penny Blog:
How true love is likened to summer, by Thomas Malory
And thus it passed on from Candlemass until after Easter, that the month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in like wise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.... more »
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Loca
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Not savage eagle's prey nor hunter's meat,
A dreaming bird in a dark blue midnight sky,
A dwindling world below your weary feet,
A dreaming bird in a dark blue midnight sky,
Your life is small; the endless sky is vast,
Never give in to fate; don't compromise,
Better to flee your home than be outcast,... more »
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TPB: Barbara Allen's Cruelty
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Today on The Penny Blog: Barbara Allen's Cruelty
In Scarlet town where I was born,
There was a fair maid dwellin’,
Made every youth cry, "Well-away!"
Her name was Barbara Allen.
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