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Poetry DailyThe Ballad Of Rum by Peter R WolveridgeA story based on a real dog who still watches over the poet's yard in his own way.2021-09-1203 minPoetry DailyPulsing Pain by Jazmin Hall poemJazmin Hall : "My mom always promises an open ear and a helping hand but when it comes down to it, she accuses, assumes, and judges me. She takes everyone else's word before she listens to what I have to say. Today, she went off on me about something that never happened and suddenly I was fed up. I couldn't take it no more. Before I did something I was SERIOUSLY going to regret, I grabbed a pen and paper and wrote. This poem only took me 5 mins and it was pure free-write. It helped a little."2021-09-1102 minPoetry DailyLife is Tough by Ellie FinchThe poet's words : "This poem is very personal to me because it conveys the feelings I felt during high school. I think other teenagers can relate to this because schools nowadays have such high expectations that people can so easily feel like they have disappointed people."2021-09-1003 minPoetry DailyI feel lost by AlexsysI feel lost by Alexsys2021-09-0902 minPoetry DailyThe Invitation by Oriah Mountain DreamerThe Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer2021-09-0803 minPoetry DailyDeath is Nothing At All by Henry Scott-Holland‘Death is Nothing at All’ by Henry Scott Holland speaks thoughtfully about the nature of death. The speaker explains that it’s not a real separation.2021-09-0702 minPoetry DailyThe Second Coming by William Butler YeatsThe poem's first stanza describes a world of chaos, confusion, and pain. The second, longer stanza imagines the speaker receiving a vision of the future, but this vision replaces Jesus's heroic return with what seems to be the arrival of a grotesque beast. 2021-09-0602 minPoetry DailyBirches by Robert FrostWhen the speaker sees bent birch trees, he likes to think that they are bent because boys have been “swinging” them. He knows that they are, in fact, bent by ice storms. Yet he prefers his vision of a boy climbing a tree carefully and then swinging at the tree’s crest to the ground. He used to do this himself and dreams of going back to those days. He likens birch swinging to getting “away from the earth awhile” and then coming back.2021-09-0504 minPoetry DailyI wandered lonely as a cloud by William WordsworthThe poem is based on one of Wordsworth's own walks in the countryside of England's Lake District. During this walk, he and his sister encountered a long strip of daffodils.2021-09-0401 minPoetry DailySympathy by Paul Laurence DunbarThe focus of much analysis of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy” is on the symbolism of the bird trapped in the caged and how it serves as metaphor.A bird in a cage—no matter what its song may sound like—is a creature denied the natural state of freedom. When the poet says that he knows why the caged bird sings and how it feels he is saying that he is privy to this intuition through experience. The experience of denial of the natural state of freedom is not a state of being limited to racial boundaries or the lif...2021-09-0301 minPoetry DailySnow by Vijay NambisanSnow by Vijay Nambisan. Vijay Nambisan was a poet, writer, critic and journalist from India writing in English2021-09-0201 minPoetry DailyThe Way my mother speaks by Carol Ann Duffy‘The Way My Mother Speaks’ by Carol Ann Duffy describes a speaker’s developing connection to her mother’s way of speaking.2021-09-0101 min
Poetry DailyAlone by Maya AngelouMaya Angelou's "Alone" is a poem that deals with togetherness by placing emphasis on being alone; quite an irony. It is a lyrical "thinking out loud", a reflection on what it is to be a human and 'out here' in the big wide world.2021-08-3101 minPoetry DailyIf- by Rudyard Kipling"‘If—‘ is an inspirational poem that provides advice on how one should live one’s life. The poem takes the reader through various ways in which the reader can rise above adversity that will almost certainly be thrown one’s way at some point."2021-08-3002 minPoetry DailyIf you forget me by Pablo Neruda"The poem depicts a person’s selfless and pure love for another. It is about two choices a boy has given to a girl, whether the girl will forget him or will come to him. He has designed the two alternatives by the way of various fancy consequences which are under stated."2021-08-2902 minPoetry DailyMultiple Sclerosis By Cynthia HuntingtonHuntington does not gloss over the tough stuff. Her choice of words is amazing, capturing the helplessness of the narrators. In addition to abuse, she writes about sickness, experience stemming from her Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis. Huntington’s poetry is not meant to soothe. It does not have flowery visuals or happy scenarios. The tales she weaves are dark and gritty, but at the same time defiant and inspiring. The narrators in her poems suffer, but there is strength in their pain.2021-08-2801 minPoetry DailyCaged Bird by Maya Angelou"The poem describes a "caged bird"—a bird that is trapped in a “narrow cage” with limited mobility, only able to sing about the freedom it has never had and cannot attain. This caged bird is an extended metaphor for the African American community’s past and on-going experience of race-based oppression in the United States in particular, and can also be read as portraying the experience of any oppressed group. The metaphor captures the overwhelming agony and cruelty of the oppression of marginalized communities by relating it to the emotional suffering of the caged bird."2021-08-2701 minPoetry DailyA letter by Amrita Pritam"In “A Letter,” the word for the police's stamp sounds like the word for an attack or ambush, and so elegantly we have the police raiding the revolutionaries even as they mark their documents. Pritam seems determined in the last stanza to go off the rails of the conceit, with the book suddenly capable of smell."2021-08-2602 minPoetry DailyThe Uninvited by Daniel AbseAlthough best known as a poet, Daniel Abse worked in the medical field, and was a physician in a chest clinic for over thirty years. He received numerous literary awards and fellowships for his writing. 2021-08-2501 minPoetry DailyOne Art by Elizabeth BishopThe main theme of the poem One Art by Elizabeth Bennet is the inevitability and pain of loss. "One Art" displays the idea of loss while relating it to life changes that are inevitable with the passage of time. 2021-08-2401 minPoetry DailyThe Road not Taken by Robert FrostRobert Frost wrote “The Road Not Taken” as a joke for a friend, the poet Edward Thomas. When they went walking together, Thomas was chronically indecisive about which road they ought to take and—in retrospect—often lamented that they should, in fact, have taken the other one.2021-08-2301 min