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A few of my quotes over the years:

Listing A Personal View Of What Poetry Is

1. Poetry is a stone, turned to expose to searching winds of a once hidden earth.
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2. Poetry is art, mind painted, heart colored and fire risen.
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3. Poetry is a fruit, hanging on a bountiful tree, begging to fall.
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4. Poetry is an ever expanding ocean, begging ever more creatures to swim in its swirling depths.
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5. Poetry is cake on a golden platter, eaten with fork, spoon, butter knife or greedy hands.
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6. Poetry is cherry blossoms, crying for the soft, cool winds to wave their beauty to the awaiting sun and the gasping skies.
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7. Poetry is glistening dewdrops falling upon virgin ground to gift dawn's hope and night's desire to match brilliance of glistening moonbeams.
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8. Poetry is a poet's heart and soul uniting to bless others, while temporarily shielding searching souls against this dark world's poison tipped arrows.
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9. Poetry is brightly sent musical notes that heart sees, mind colors and spirit longs to record.
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10. Poetry is ink blotted, soul driven splashes that cry to be read, beg to be understood and unabashedly sing to give to its dear readers.
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11.Poetry is a colorful bird, in heavenly flight to a paradise that awaits man's sincere pleading heart and desirous spirit.
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12. Poetry is a child happily playing, a mother joyfully singing and a father blessed to have and so very dearly appreciate loving both.
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Robert J. Lindley, 7-17-2018
Subject, ( What Poetry Is)

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My biography will be very limited for now. Here , I can express myself in poetic form but in real life I much rather prefer to be far less forward I am a 60 year old American citizen , born and raised in the glorious South! A heritage that I am very proud of and thank God for as it is a blessing indeed ~

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I have truly lived a very wild life as a younger man but now find myself finally very happily settled down for the duration of my life~

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First Creation- A Poet's Blog - On Life, Love, Living, Death, Earth And Eternity

Blog Posted:5/15/2021 7:31:00 AM

First Creation- A Poet's Blog -

On Life, Love, Living, Death, Earth And Eternity

(Blog on poetry, its depths and man's search for eternity)

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FAMOUS QUOTES:

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Khalil Gibran

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

John Milton

The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.

Ellen G. White

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Madame de Stael

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

A. E. Housman

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Leo Buscaglia

Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It's a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.

John Cooper Clarke

A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.

Adoniram Judson

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(1A.)

https://oldenglishpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/the-gifts-of-men/

The Gifts of Men

There are many gifts of the youthful apparent

across the earth, those that the soul-bearing carry

in their brains, just as the God of Armies here,

the Measurer so powerfully, has doled out unto humanity

given as a unique present, sending them wide afield,

his own privileges, and every one of them

may be taken up by some of those living among the people. (ll. 1-7)

There are no men upon the earth so blessed with misery,

nor so moderate of prosperity, so craven of spirit,

nor so delayed of courage, that the granter of grace

should deprive them of every skill of the mind,

or mighty deed, wise in wit or in wordy statements,

lest they be hopeless in all matters—

those which God wrought in this worldly life,

all these gracious gifts—God would never deem

that any should become so wretched. (ll 8-17)…

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(1.B.)

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/eternity-2/

Robert Herrick

Eternity

O years! and age! farewell:

Behold I go,

Where I do know

Infinity to dwell.

And these mine eyes shall see

All times, how they

Are lost i' th' sea

Of vast eternity:--

Where never moon shall sway

The stars; but she,

And night, shall be

Drown'd in one endless day.

--- Robert Herrick

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(1.)

Earth, Mortal Life, Is It A Prelude To Eternity

The real challenge, the virgin path to take

Youth and its mysteries - things we forsake

As rising to greet dawn and feel its rays

Sense of peace, hope that it forever stays

That brief time just before golden sun sets

Those fleeting loves, with age one never forgets.

The real challenge, the virgin path to take.

Youth and its mysteries - things we forsake.

That first day, seeing a forever beach

Sweet new love, once thought so far beyond reach

Princess met me, holding my trembling hand

We both barely sixteen, walking white sands

That brief time just before golden sun sets

That first glowing love, that one never forgets.

The real challenge, the virgin path to take.

Youth and its mysteries - things we forsake.

And the now, when a billion years has flown

The in-between, ahead lies great unknown

When daylight yields to a powerful dark

To a bloody battle we must embark

That brief time just before golden sun sets

That first glowing love, that one never forgets.

The real challenge, the virgin path to take.

Youth and its mysteries - things we forsake.

As the path into a golden sunset

Life was not about, treasures one could get

It was the joy of love and being free

And promise of one day- eternity.

The real challenge, the virgin path to take.

Youth and its mysteries - things we forsake.

Robert J. Lindley,

Rhyme, ( A Look Well Beyond Life's Mere Fleeting Blink )

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(2.)

A Quest Finished, An Epic Truth Found

There in fertile green valley of contemplation

Yet lies those eager seeds of wicked damnation

Sprung from the dark-set and evil heart born of greed

Pleasures that lurk to strike, as a snake in the weeds

That which mankind embraces in its quest for more

Ever seeking to steal gold from paradise shores.

There in swollen streams yet awaits ready to pounce

Wanton greed that measures all by the golden ounce

And ravaging darkness born in a world of hate

Firm and loyal ally with wicked hands of Fate

That which mankind embraces in its quest for more

Ever seeking to steal gold from paradise shores.

Surely as truth weds divine handmaidens of light.

Faith and Love conquers terrors of the darkest night.

Robert J. Lindley,

Sonnet,

( Wherein Hope And Faith, Seeds Great Harvests Of Eternity )

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(3.)

A Winter Night At The Old Cabin

white banks, frozen stream

trees staring at naked limbs

full moon smiling down

Robert J. Lindley,

haiku,

( poetic thoughts from a scene never forgotten)

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Robert
Lindley

Date: 5/20/2021 7:45:00 PM

The other haiku- August Summer of 69 long winding clear stream Spring and soft jubilant greens hot concrete sidewalk Robert J. Lindley haiku Note- Etched in memory, oft served up as dessert .....

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/20/2021 7:49:00 PM

And the roses that grew to kiss the dew. The times that life promised love anew. Rewards for walking the true and straight path. Death that stalked to vent its blacken wrath.....

Robert
Lindley

Date: 5/16/2021 10:34:00 PM

https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/4gxzei/discussion_eternity_by_william_blake_whats_the/ Discussion Here's the poem: He who binds to himself a joy Does the wingéd life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Robert
Lindley

Date: 5/16/2021 10:32:00 PM

There rests the wonderment of true art. What heart and soul poets impart. Life, love and beauty in dear life. Countering world's razor sharp knife. Those wicked cuts destined to be. And dawn's rays, love's true blessing tree. Poetry, gems you and by me.....

Robert
Lindley

Date: 5/16/2021 10:17:00 PM

https://poets.org/text/poem-changed-my-life-hart-cranes-eternity The idea of choosing a single poem as one that has informed my poetry is both fascinating and absurd. I have never been asked to discuss one transformative poem before. The question traditionally has been "What writer, or writers, influenced you?," and the reference might be, in various ways, to the work and the life of that poet, a terrifying and confusing question, especially because, in my case, I always had to account for Whitman—his long walks, his death by water, and his biblical rhythms.

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/17/2021 8:11:00 AM

continued-- * In those golden dreams I recall. Your long auburn hair late that Fall. How sweetly you danced with me. Now tis your true beauty I see. And with bitter tears I bemoan. Sitting in this life all alone. * Darling, now I suffer the most. In midnight dreams begging your ghost. To re-flame love, fly here to me. Now I admit what I could not see. Those great sorrows I caused thee.....

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/16/2021 10:24:00 PM

In those waters, those flowing of past years. Dare one look back in gasping thought. Not afraid to shed weeping tears. Or regretting the pains thus brought. Aye, life its heartaches gives so free. As are waves splashing on the sea.

Robert
Lindley

Date: 5/16/2021 10:16:00 PM

1. http://bq.blakearchive.org/45.2.michael

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Theraven

Date: 5/16/2021 8:41:00 PM

Robert, I enjoyed reading from the links provided, though it may've been a mistake trying between three minute eggs. I saw Andrea's comment and must agree. Your Haiku 'A Winter Night At The Old Cabin' is wonderfully written. Took me back to my own childhood frozen creek behind the glow of houses in a clear cold winter's night. -Richard

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/16/2021 10:08:00 PM

Alexander Pope, ‘Eloisa to Abelard’. This poem by the neoclassical poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744) earns its place on this list partly because of its most famous line, ‘The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.’ The section of the poem in question runs: How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d; Labour and rest, that equal periods keep; ‘Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep …’

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/16/2021 10:07:00 PM

My eggs are usually scrambled and served with bacon, biscuit and a hot cup of coffee. I too can remember staring across the water into the cold frozen night and wondering how it was a couple hundred years before when they braved the elements without the modern conveniences we have today. God bless..

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/16/2021 10:03:00 PM

Thank you my friend. This blog was a hard task for me but a truly enjoyable endeavor as well. I let the memory lead me into the flow and the beauty of youth, the mystery that then lay ahead and the way life unfolded. Even how that time span affected my poetry. What I lost back then-- what I have since gained. God bless...

Rob
Carmack

Date: 5/16/2021 7:01:00 AM

Your "Earth, Mortal Life, Is It A Prelude To Eternity" resonates strongly with me. Reminds me of the Maryland summers I spent at the beach so long ago. Every season of my life has been good and blessed, but those summers are among my favorites. And those fleeting loves, so many different ways our lives could have gone.

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/16/2021 10:09:00 PM

William Blake, ‘Eternity’. This short poem by the Romantic visionary poet William Blake (1757-1827) is short enough to be quoted here in full: He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy He who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sunrise. The poem can be said to encapsulate Blake’s central moral tenets of freedom and selflessness, especially concerning the natural world.

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/16/2021 10:00:00 PM

Thank you my friend. Your comment inspires me to attempt to continue my bloggings. Youth is truly a most wonderful and magical time in our lives. And truth is- sometimes looking back can be a sad thing but other times it brings such epic joy and longings of that moment, that era , that being with family and friends. As you said, the beach, the summers there and the thought that such was a great blessing! God bless..

Gregory Richard
Barden

Date: 5/15/2021 6:25:00 PM

Wonderful work, Robert, as we have come to expect ... this will be a "Hot" thread in no time ...

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/16/2021 10:10:00 PM

John Clare, ‘An Invite to Eternity’. Like Blake and Wordsworth, Clare was a Romantic poet. This haunting poem draws on the natural world for its imagery, but it’s an unnerving address from a strange male speaker to a ‘sweet maid’. He seems to be beckoning her into death, that ‘one eternity’ in which they will both be joined: The land of shadows wilt thou trace And look – nor know each other’s face The present mixed with reasons gone And past, and present all as one Say maiden can thy life be led To join the living to the dead Then trace thy footsteps on with me We’re wed to one eternity …

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/16/2021 9:54:00 PM

Thank you my friend. Your comment is truly appreciated. The ideas for these blogs just come to me and I feel compelled to create the flow, the creation, and the original poems to match the idea , the thought and the poetic interpretation that seeks its release! God bless..

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 5/15/2021 4:45:00 PM

What great quotes. I think first one was my favorite. I really enjoyed your haiku, Robert. you should try more and more of them!

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/16/2021 10:11:00 PM

Emily Dickinson, ‘Forever – Is Composed of Nows’. Forever – is composed of Nows – ’Tis not a different time – Except for Infiniteness – And Latitude of Home – From this – experienced Here – Remove the Dates – to These – Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years … So begins this poem from Dickinson, which sees eternity as a succession of moments, which always form the present. It’s as if Dickinson is answering Stoppard’s question from the top of this blog post, before he’d even asked it, with the response: ‘eternity will never end because it never starts – it’s a continual process made up of the here and now’.

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/16/2021 9:52:00 PM

Thank you my friend. I couldn't resist including the quotes- as each is a gem, a truth and a brilliant observation. The haiku form is rapidly becoming a new fav for me. And that even tho' so oft now the blues enter my soul and my poetry suffers. God bless..

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8/7/2023	Blinded By Life and Praying To Truly See	Free verse	art,surreal,vanity,vision
8/7/2023	Hold Firm Your Immovable Sacred Heart	Sonnet	art,creation,deep,lost lo
8/6/2023	The Untruth of a Lone and Erroneous Prophecy	Sonnet	art,fate,girlfriend,life,
8/6/2023	Than the Grand Illusions of Those Paradise Shores	Sonnet	art,courage,hope,identity
8/5/2023	There In Morning Sun, Hope Circled Enticing Dreams	Sonnet	art,dark,fantasy,imaginat
8/5/2023	The Old Farmer Rests Warm In His Snug House	Sonnet	deep,environment,home,nat
8/4/2023	The Amazing Tale the Old Stone Sphinx Never Told	Rhyme	art,confusion,humanity,im
8/3/2023	And Then Remember Faith and Truth Brought About This	Sonnet	angel,forgiveness,god,hea
8/3/2023	In Our Feasts, We Both Drank Lover's Wine	Rhyme	betrayal,dark,deep,imagin
8/2/2023	With Gypsie Luck, My Own Weaken Steps Retrace	Sonnet	art,creation,deep,feeling
8/1/2023	Evolution Is Man-Made, Lying Fairy Tale	Sonnet	art,earth,faith,god,human
7/31/2023	Co-Exist, Neither of Us Fear the Knife	Sonnet	care,courage,friendship,h
7/29/2023	The Saddest Truth of Love and Its Deep Darker Side	Sonnet	dark,love,love hurts,mean
7/28/2023	As a Poet, the Importance of Truth	Sonnet	character,courage,deep,id
7/27/2023	Of Homer, Iliad and the Fall of the Mighty Greeks	Rhyme	courage,history,mythology
7/27/2023	Life, and Trekking Across Wild Wilderness	Rhyme	art,beauty,bird,deep,eart
7/24/2023	Life Now Cries Out, This Truth, There Is No Holy Grail	Rhyme	creation,death,deep,histo
7/24/2023	Comment On Decency and Morality	Quatrain	art,best friend,car,death
7/24/2023	There Beyond the Purple Veil, I Hear Her Calling	Rhyme	creation,imagination,life
7/23/2023	A Cowboy and His Thoughts On Dodge City	Verse	character,conflict,histor
7/23/2023	Concepts From the Thoughts of the Old Beggar	Imagism	art,assonance,character,d
7/22/2023	I Walk Midnight Arena All Alone	Sonnet	art,life,perspective,phil

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Fav Poems

PoemTitle	Form	Categories
Mountain Drop	Rhyme	death,depression,
To a Despondent Friend	Quatrain	depression,
Beauty Exposed	Rhyme	life,
Beautiful Day	Free verse	seasons,
What the Angels Whisper	Free verse	god,hope,youth,
A Letter To Emily Dickinson	Rhyme	poetess,
His Song and Mine	I do not know?	bird,life,poems,prison,,L
White Lace	Sonnet	life,seasons
Echoes In the Stone	Epic	adventure,death,hero,hist
Black Diamond Night	Epic	body,death,history,lonely
In An Old Cathedral	Rhyme	loneliness,love,
If Walls Could Speak	Narrative	feelings,for him,joy,toge
The Tree of Life	Rhyme	age,child,death,mystery,t
Spring On the Wind	Rhyme	change,nature,spring,
Sweet Memories	Rhyme	lost love,
Our Little Haven	Rhyme	cousin,fairy,fantasy,gree
Crying River	Ballad	beautiful,cry,deep,freedo
Stairway To the Stars	Free verse	farewell,kiss,
Colours In Our Lives	Rhyme	beauty,color,
Oak	Rhyme	tree,
Her Hidden Gem	Rhyme	mother,voice,
Daddy	Free verse	blue,dad,depression,fathe
Midnight Poet	Free verse	addiction,character,devot
Indian Ink	Dramatic Verse	abuse,autumn,death,deep,f
Eyes of Blue	Rhyme	freedom,hero,memorial day
Bobcat Moon	Rhyme	autumn,friendship,loss,mo
A New Love Found	Free verse	inspirational,
Contest Consternation	Free verse	community,poetry,words,
Amidst the Fallen Petals	Free verse	longing,love,
Autumn's Gown	Rhyme	color,inspiration,
A New Bird	Rhyme	birth,
Write You Out	Free verse	goodbye,how i feel,
The Clock It Mocks	Free verse	break up,heartbroken,jeal
The Evil Eye	Rhyme	evil,
My Day Is Coming	Rhyme	friendship,journey,life,
Kresge's Five and Dime Stores	Rhyme	nostalgia,
Hey You	Free verse	anger,conflict,forgivenes
When Love Found Me	Rhyme	blessing,love,
Sometimes	Rhyme	blessing,thanks,
My Fallen Brother	Rhyme	angst,brother,history,los
Mist Song	Rhyme	beauty,music,nature,
Aquarius	Couplet	imagery,water,
Eccentric Eyes	Sonnet	pain,
The Lords Sweet Morning	Rhyme	music,nature,
Mother's Garden	Rhyme	flower,garden,nature,
O the Grieving	Free verse	death,funeral,grief,
The Sowing	Free verse	devotion,
Intolerable	Rhyme	abuse,betrayal,racism,
Holding a Wilting Red Rose	Verse	death,mother,mothers day,
Letting Go	Rhyme	son,
Neverland	Narrative	childhood,nostalgia,place
Wild Love	Narrative	garden,love,rose,sweet,
Sunset Tableau	Verse	pain,
Wild Pure and Free Love	Free verse	beautiful,love,romance,
I Walk On Water	Free verse	introspection,life,
Heaven Or Hell	Free verse	dark,heaven,light,love,
Starstruck In Your Deep Beauty	Free verse	beautiful,beauty,flower,l
The Blackberry and the Rose	Personification	imagination
Eccentricity In Love	Sonnet	love,universe,
Strong Point	Sonnet	love,
The Ripping	Free verse	abuse,addiction,anger,ang
I Hate You All	Light Verse	dark,death,philosophy,sad
What Is Love	Sonnet	love,
Releasing Me	Sonnet	happiness,peace,
So She Broke Your Heart	Free verse	analogy,betrayal,hope,lov
As We Walk Hand In Hand	Rhyme	happiness,how i feel,love
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier	Light Verse	soldier,violence,war,
Rain Over Vietnam	Quatern	rain,war,
Ancient Warrior	Iambic Pentameter	angst,culture,native amer
Simply Time To Go, a Little Brother's Lamentation	Rhyme	brother,conflict,confusio
December Magic	Quintain (English)	nature,
Angel Tears	Light Verse	angel,
Fragment	Triolet	light
New World Order	Rhyme	drug,society,
Put Your Head On My Shoulder	Light Verse	dance,romantic,
Approaching Storm	Rhyme	weather,
Long Distance Dreamer	Light Verse	beautiful,i miss you,long
Autumn's Dreams of a Country Road	Rhyme	nature,seasons,
On Blood's Own Sand	Free verse	death,desire,emotions,pas
I Am the Mighty Mountain	Personification	earth,mountains,
To Him Who Loves Me	Sonnet	love,relationship,romanti
The Perfect Painting	Rhyme	art,beauty,
Whilst Walking Through the Woods	Sonnet	animal,beauty,bird,nature
When Shadows Fall	Rhyme	life,music,nature,seasons
For Nineteen Years	Lyric	bereavement,
Shoreline	Rhyme	sea,wind,
Yellow Shoes In the Darkness	Quatrain	me,metaphor,places,yellow
What Use Have I For Words	Sonnet	words,
Sonnet For Statues	Sonnet	art,poems,poetry,
Through the Dust	Pantoum	childhood,memory,
But I Must Stay	Villanelle	sad,
The Enemy's Child : Collab With Carolyn D	Rhyme	baby,social,war,
Before and Beyond the Bed	Free verse	hope,
Tear Drops	Free verse	allegory,desire,devotion,
Seat of Kings	Free verse	beautiful,green,inspirati
Invitation	Rhyme	lost love,
The Jilted Spring	Rhyme	birth,nature,spring,
A Little Touch of Rubaiyat	Rubaiyat	sexy,
Don'T Censor Me	Sonnet	poetry,
Star Gazer	Free verse	allegory,beauty,metaphor,