Best Amherst Poems

There was a young poet from Amherst,
Who planned to marry Vince Pankwurst.
They made vows to wed,
But soon Vince was dead,
For the bell of the town hit him head first....

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Alone, You lived, my dearest friend--
all the days were seldom kind,
the world, to you seemed blind
yet in your works I do find,
sincerity end to end.

You gave us pauses--stresses too--
lines that questioned a callous life,
verses, unfinished, that are rife
with similes like a sharpened knife,
even your lies...

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Emily, you stitched the world into small, precise syllables,
tucking eternity into lines so brief,
they might be mistaken for whispers.
But in your whispers, there were earthquakes,
the kind that only the soul could feel.

You walked the garden paths of Amherst,
where bees hummed their sermons
and the wind brushed...

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