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Whitman's 

'A noiseless Patient spider' *[a very topical subject in the Northern hemisphere at this time of year] (September) *https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45473/a-noiseless-patient-spider ( A 10 line free verse)

 

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STRAND POETIC REVIEW sept 20

Walt Whitman raised by Quakers in Brooklyn
with typographical poetics did begin
'Leaves of Grass&Song of Myself'
devoted to the US commonwealth

Walt Whitman junior,so sensual
with poems&essays so influential
Transcendental writer&realist
with verse libre did insist
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