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Merwin Poems - Poems about Merwin


December Woman
...In the inner courtyard of the December night Love is cultivating endlessly in the heart of the lover The land of attraction is awakening with the immortal attraction of the prayer He is not a man ......

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Categories: merwin, love,
Form: Free verse
Astute Nifty Litterateur
...W-riter I-s L-etting L-ine I-mplement A-crostic M-use S-o T-he A-stute N-ifty L-itterateur E-rases Y-our M-ind's E-motional R-egret W-ith I-nspiring N-ote Topic: Birthday of......

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Categories: merwin, birthday, poets,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Old Dead Poets
... I admire great poets old, perusing the tragic ends. Researching their writing styles and patterns their layouts, rhyming, punctuation, moods, in dark solitude they penned dreadful words......

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Categories: merwin, old, poets,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Bittersweet
...so this is the way the night tastes... looking back I couldn't tell, in pencil at the beginning worn flights of steps, from before the war smaller, until they were gone but in the mirror,......

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Categories: merwin, grandmother, image, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member W.S. Merwin
...W.S. Merwin, Our Poet Laureate, Lives on Maui, A 30$ plane ticket from me. He spoke on NPR today Of poetry, and writing, and the "unknown." He spoke like a man with an award. I've never read......

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Categories: merwin, on writing and words
Form: Free verse




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