Keywords: Poem
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Healey and Grant Fraser
- 31 August 2010
He is Gabriel, delicately boned, familiar, .. he has turned towards the Virgin .. who stands in her long solemnity, .. amongst the sober prophets, .. and the proper saints.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Fraser
- 24 August 2010
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Soundless as snow .. the leopard comes, .. all of his weight .. is in the gold of his predatory eyes ... behind the heavy, protecting glass ... eternally deprived of prey.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mark Carkeet and Graham Kershaw
- 17 August 2010
They're elderly, unstable, probably a couple, their cheerful eyes sprung like steel against the cold, their hands arthritic, resigned; their grip carrying no conviction. Concentration lapses. People fail to see. This has never been a Labour town.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Ben Coleridge
- 16 August 2010
2 Comments
Flicking the frisbee with a well practised arm, Jimmy told me about his former
home in Sri Lanka. 'Last time I was
there, I was carrying bodies to their graves in my arms, even the bodies
of friends.'
Homer's Iliad is a poem of force in
which, at all times, the human spirit is shown modified by its relations
with force.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Diane Fahey
- 10 August 2010
3 Comments
After I'd reached the Top .. why didn't they save me .. from Boardroom Rivals .. plotting to bring me down?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anne M. Carson
- 03 August 2010
Two poems from a series about Heinrich Himmler's personal masseur, Felix Kersten. He used his influence over Himmler to secure the release of many prisoners — much like Oscar Schindler.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Cecilia Condon
- 27 July 2010
3 Comments
Your profile .. Your pics, updated .. Your 746 Friends .. Fend off the texture of the universe. F***book will f*** You.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Susan Fealy and Jamie King-Holden
- 06 July 2010
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A cracked grey angel .. shadows a snatch of brown weeds .. in a Coke bottle. .. A marble stone reads: .. 'our loving son, died too young' .. he sleeps, snug in clay.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
He pushed the bulges of his shoulder blades .. into the worn padding and realised how stooped he was — too much sitting, hunching forward in expectation? .. No crane would admit to a neck like that! .. But skin still smooth, like his father's, in his nineties what's more.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Does anybody think we'll go away from here
just because they've sanctioned us and breached us, preached at us,
acquired our country, stolen our yesterdays, the silk and hardy timbers
of them ..
Do they really think they've crushed our silvers and our souls by
managing our sturdy little incomes?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Mitchell and Kathryn Hamann
- 15 June 2010
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she migrates the long, thin pole around the recycling dumpster. Beer bottles clink, aluminium cans become metal kebabs ... on the road: her set eyes read the worlds of nature — the sky as upturned colander, shaking droplets of rain.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P. S. Cottier and Jeff Klooger
- 08 June 2010
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Since furniture regained its proper size .. and animals ceased to speak .. since teapots evicted rodents .. and the Queen became so very nice .. I find myself looking back ... Everything now is normaler and normaler
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