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My mom recently found a bunch of papers and crafts I created while in elementary school. One of the things she found was a “report” I wrote on poet Emma Lazarus. I remember being fascinated with her when I was a kid. I loved that this woman wrote words that were bold and strong ( Read more... )

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The Details

I can’t help but wonder
at the beauty of this life
The complexity of design
and the care and love
drawn into every single cell
of every single being
And I try and find the
beauty in the ugly
The so-called undesirables
and the just-not-quite-rights
But there is something ( Read more... )

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Last Tuesday I was able to preview a new movie called Bright Star. I was unfamiliar with the movie, only knowing that it was about Keats. I knew the basic story of his life and his death at an early age, but nothing about the premise of the movie, which ( Read more... )

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As a preview for this Sunday’s poetry post, I wanted to share a poem by John Keats. This Sunday I will be writing about Keats’ poetry, and the new movie about his fated romance with Fanny Braun, Bright Star, which I saw this evening.

MY heart aches, and a ( Read more... )

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Now that I will be blogging regularly again, I wanted to revive my weekly themed posts. So today, I’d like to again talk about some of my favorite poetry, and this week I’ll be discussing the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. I first learned of this poet ( Read more... )

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A few years ago I discovered the poetry of Mairead Byrne, an Irish poet. I’m not a student of poetry, although I love to read and write it, so I can’t name her style, if you could even categorize it, but her poems are very current, but have a lyrical ( Read more... )

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In the summer I always remember some of my fondest traveling experiences. In college, I was fortunate enough to travel to many cities in the US and also Europe during many of my summers off from school. I tried to write wherever I went, even if just a log ( Read more... )

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This Sunday I have been thinking a lot about how I have changed over the past 10 years (since I began high school). In some ways, I think I am much the same person, but lately I’ve begun to realize how much I have really changed. If I asked my friends ( Read more... )

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I’m currently reading Crank by Ellen Hopkins, and wanted to briefly touch on it for my weekly poetry post, and I thought to myself: Who else can I bring to the table that can even touch the edge of the power of this book? It’s raw and real and I can even ( Read more... )

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I’m planning on posting some poetry every Sunday-a day I usually spend relaxing, bouncing around the Internet, and occasionally at the library-a combination of my own and others that I have found. I’m very into novels-in-verse at the moment, so I’ll most ( Read more... )