Poetasters Poems - Poems about Poetasters

...PROFESSOR POETS These are poems about professor poets and other “intellectuals” who miss the main point of poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of emo......

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...His lines he always wanted to shine With éclat and style mingled fine To bedazzle and strike with awe Those who bothered to read a line For hours on end, would he ponder On how he could rive y......

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...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXXII for Carlos Bousoño, the eminent Spanish critic, poet and professor who maintained that if you don't like the "humorist", you're not likel......

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...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVII - Tongue Twisters If you want to « have » your cake and « eat » it at one and the same time, simple enough, just split it into two equal parts like an isosceles triangl......

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...The newest reality show, on Imagination Response Operations Network or (IRON)and it is called Reclamations and is broadcasted daily ......

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...Unquotable quotes: Poets, Poetasters and Platos – XXXVI For James McAuley – in remembrance of a memorable week in Cardiff 1965 The greatest poet ever is NOT Homer, Lao Tse, Ovid, Dante......

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...Villanelle : Bequeath not an image which is not wholly your own Bequeath not an image which is not wholly your own No not all the tasters of Isphaha can patch it back whole Living did you yo......

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...Now that I have gotten that over with, Being straightforward as a piss-ant on fire, Telling you it just is what it is, That behind all the frizz, Is a beardless fake whose heraldic bearings Are ......

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...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Seven The balding weeping willow by the Prefecture Gate’s railings There where on drowsy summer’s day gather swan and goslings To unfurl and let fan the crisp en......

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