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Ha! Poetry doesn't have to be so snooty, does it? Both my parents loved and could recite poems from Goethe, Burns, Frost or Longfellow and I grew up thinking poetry was approachable and musical.

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Lucky you!

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Sonnets are the best. Only 14 lines, a shade more than Haiku. I chose to memorize some Gerard Manley Hopkins and every Fall and Spring on the golf course I say out loud the words to SPRING AND FALL TO A YOUNG CHILD.......and grieve each time I come to the last line....

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I like Hopkins a lot. Great line of his from "The Wreck of the Deutschland": "Hope had grown grey hairs."

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Musical like Dorothy Parker’s “The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk”. Helps make my day sweeter!

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I love Dorothy, but don't know that one!

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I read it...liked it and later realized that it is a song. Live and (to) learn!

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Oh, I feel this veiled anger in her poems all the time. For a cause as well.

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I have never “heard” you being so angry, Richard. The only poet I like and “understand” is Alexander Pushkin. (smile) I hope no one will name me . . . Well, you wrote the “appropriate words.”

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Angry for a cause, Marina!

What about Anna Akhmatova?

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"Si la société évacue la poésie comme mode d'expression non productif, c'est peut-être que la poésie est un foyer de contestation, un acte de résistance, une incompatibilité fondamentale avec le système dominant ?" (Jean Rouaud)

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Political! How did you find that?!?

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Yes! Just reading about Rouaud, this morning, one article had this quote. :)

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