Professor Kyle
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Thanks to @apfel_sarah I know it's World Poetry Day! How about sharing some of your favorite poems? You could link, thread, or screenshot (if the latter, please use alt text! 🙂).
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AprilG Xn+2 = Xn+1 + Xn
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In response to Professor Kyle.
https://spoutible.com/thre...
From Collected Poems 1930 – 1993 by May Sarton
06:22 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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Meg Smythe
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In response to Professor Kyle.
Roses are blue
Violets are red
Don’t tell me… it’s time for bed.
03:59 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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Professor Kyle
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In response to Meg Smythe.
🤣
08:16 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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hmmwrites (Heather's version)
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In response to Professor Kyle.
The the Impotence of Proofreading by Taylor Mali makes my inner English teacher twitch, but it's an absolutely hilarious read.
01:23 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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Professor Kyle
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In response to hmmwrites (Heather's version).
🤣🤣🤣
08:19 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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Just Frank
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In response to Professor Kyle.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I can't write poetry
How about you
12:58 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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Professor Kyle
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In response to Just Frank.
Ha!
12:58 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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Thee NW Mankiller Magpie
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In response to Professor Kyle.
When my mother died, one of my dearest friends emailed this to me, and it moves me to tears every time I read it.

From "The Farewell," by Kahlil Gibran.
12:38 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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Professor Kyle
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In response to Thee NW Mankiller Magpie.
💔❤️
12:42 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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Thee NW Mankiller Magpie
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In response to Professor Kyle.
Siegfried Sassoon was a war hero *and* an anti-war poet of World War I - this poem and others nearly got him court-martialed, but friends argued he was suffering from shell shock, and he was released to medical care instead.

I try to post this every Veterans' Day.
12:34 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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Professor Kyle
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In response to Thee NW Mankiller Magpie.
Wow. Powerful.
12:36 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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Thee NW Mankiller Magpie
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In response to Professor Kyle.
He was a traitor, a racist, an anti-Semite and a fascist, but "The Pisan Cantos" by Ezra Pound are amazing, and this bit is my favorite.
12:28 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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hmmwrites (Heather's version)
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In response to Thee NW Mankiller Magpie.
Yeah, I kind of hate-read his poems at this point. Because he was awful, but damn, some of his writing was so good...
12:32 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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RA
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In response to Professor Kyle.
I will never not share Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg. I think about it even more often since Ukraine was invaded.

"The darkness crumbles away..."

https://www.poetryfoundati...
11:49 PM - Mar 20, 2024
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Kettlecorn
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In response to Professor Kyle.
Take care, young ladies, and value your wine
Be watchful of young men in their velvet prime
Deeply they'll swallow from your finest kegs,
Then swiftly be gone, leaving bitter dregs
Ahh-ah-ah-ah, bitter dregs

from Star Trek season 3, episode 10, “Plato’s Stepchildren”

Happy World Poetry Day
11:48 PM - Mar 20, 2024
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Jeanne Davies
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In response to Professor Kyle.
Introductionto Poetry by Billy Collins https://www.poetryfoundati...
11:36 PM - Mar 20, 2024 (Edited)
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Camara Reed she/her/we/us
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In response to Professor Kyle.
As a young child, Harlem by Langston Hughes is one of the poems my mother (an English teacher) taught me to recite. I have reflected on its meaning quite often at various stages in my life.
11:31 PM - Mar 20, 2024
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Kirk Taylor
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In response to Professor Kyle.
Hug me, mother of noise.
Find me a hiding place.
I am afraid of my voice.
I do not like my face.

"Television" by Anne Stevenson, 1963
11:26 PM - Mar 20, 2024
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Drew Milroy
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In response to Professor Kyle.
A Caution to Everybody

Consider the auk;
Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.
Consider man, who may well become extinct
Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.

Ogden Nash
11:05 PM - Mar 20, 2024
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Professor Kyle
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In response to Drew Milroy.
Ha!
11:09 PM - Mar 20, 2024
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Isa-Lee Wolf
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In response to Professor Kyle.
Too long for a screenshot, but for some reason, Snake by DH Lawrence always pops into my head.

The sounds of the consonants, so snake-like, and those last two lines.

https://www.poetryfoundati...
10:48 PM - Mar 20, 2024
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Professor Kyle
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In response to Isa-Lee Wolf.
Wow. Love it.
10:55 PM - Mar 20, 2024
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Bren
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In response to Professor Kyle.
For poetry day I was watching Dante's Inferno. Heavy business going on in Florence in 1302. Greed, ego, power, monarchy, murder, politics. I'm so glad I'm voting for Biden/Harris in 2024
10:39 PM - Mar 20, 2024
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Sarah Apfel
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In response to Professor Kyle.
You got it, Prof. Here are a few, listed in the order in which I first read/heard them. Your turn!
10:36 PM - Mar 20, 2024
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Professor Kyle
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In response to Sarah Apfel.
Ooh, love all these!
10:37 PM - Mar 20, 2024
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T. Naught
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In response to Sarah Apfel.
i’m glad you got the larkin in there.
and the dorothy parker, too.
ok these are all great. 😂
10:56 PM - Mar 20, 2024
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