Short Auden Poems

English playright W H Auden
also poetized with his pen
Famed for his 'Stop the clock'
his.Funeral blues gave many a shock...

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As we to enter into any relationship
I wonder how beautiful our world would be
If everyone entered echoing the words of W. H Auden:
‘Let the most loving one…be me’...

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WH AUDEN night mail

    ____________
   |               ==  |
   |               ==  |
   |   mr auden     |
   |    London       |
   |     EC1           |
   |____________|...

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W H Auden 'CHRISTMAS ORATORIO'


                {((({}(((}
            {(([(•)(•} ]{)))
            {)}[  ||   ] {(((
             {)}\(==) /{))))}
              {))}\_ _/  })))}
                J  S Bach...

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"Let your last thinks be thanks"
 W.H. Auden famously wrote
    Making Wystan Hugh
    My favorite male poet






Note: I have excluded all
         of my favorite male
         poets on Poetry Soup,
         of course! :-)...

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I the lonely poet whose words 
spill out onto the page 
like blood spatter at a crime scene
will knock at your door
books in my eyes hoping 
you'll want to critique them

while others partake of tradition
I will bring cheese
summer sausage, and wine
quote Auden, Ginsberg, and Dove 
'til the aurora strums the horizon
this rhythm inspires the wren
that melody signaling the dawn...

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A.R. Ammons on the mound
Auden on the mound
Ginsberg on 1st
Frost on second
Carl Sandburg on third
Ferlinghetti at short
Right Field - Wordsworth
Left field - Shelly 
Blake - Center field
Shakespeare  - Catcher
Have I dropped enough 
names for you?
What's so bad about
being a name dropper?
The game is on 
Unfortunately my team 
is losing
But with poetic talent
They may yet
Eke out a victory
Postscript  - They just won!...

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