Best Excerpted Poems

Scientists claim the big bang was the first sound ever, not knowing how hard milkyway had to beg forever so they could team up to...

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Gusts upon the green blades buzzing with synergy
While morning sun rays placed its striped bee patterns
Cast upon my face like some radiant Zebra energy
From across...

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The Parrot and the Woodpecker may turn...
    [Sung by TEnicayccal Cellappa]        Translated by T.Wignesan
 
mAnkiliyum...

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Two Aloha-shirted Hawaiians 
of generous girth were strumming 
their ukuleles 
on a small stage in front of the hotel’s poolside bar
in the late afternoon, 
rehearsing...

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excerpted from "For an album";
Adrienne Rich (1987)
...
Our story is of moments
when even slow motion moved too fast
for the shutter of the camera:
words that blew our...

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(for those in Kwangju: May 18, 1980)*
after Dante

Taking this peach within the mouth, the tongue 
hovers around its sunset skin like a lover
and its Sappho...

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May 29, 1957: …have to think about getting a thesis director…know no professor yet in the department…someone suggested i get hold of Derek Fogg for...

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Truth, Falsehood, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : Verdad, Mentira

Note: I've tried in vain to upload, since November 2, 2013, the following poem: "Words uttered...

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IF ever I had a country : XXI - XXII

" I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I...

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Three Sisters

Three sisters sitting on a stoop 
Like Autumn Summer and Spring
Reflective Introspective and Serene
Contemplating the past present and beyond
Givers of life from the womb...

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Patty Cat, Patty Cat, 
Sheath your claw;
Rat-girl and Cat-girl
Rollin' in the straw.






Excerpted from Wisewomen and Boggy-boos: A Dictionary of Lesbian Fairy Lore (Austin: Banned Books,...

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Your teeth, locked in steel jaw force,
         sink further into my skin, I wince.
You release.
  ...

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Merry Mary Blackberry fairy
	will you marry me
Cows that play the live-long day
	have come to sample thee.







Excerpted from Wisewomen and Boggy-boos: A Dictionary of Lesbian Fairy...

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Top notch legal scholar Erin Go Braw
     (less concerned about being fair versus
     abominable, irrevocable, and execrable
...

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Breathe elegance
of gray green
lessons in simplicity
blue heron waits

I watch your
minor shifts in moving
I’ve already squiggled
a dozen times
while you peer tall
on your barnacled stage

I’d never seen
stillness...

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