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Tag Archives: adulthood
Not So Simple: heroic sonnet
How simple it seems to be born again: to never reach the stage of an adult, but each time that you feel a growing pain, to plead no contest and avoid the fault, accepting being only just a child with … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged #BookofForms, adulthood, childhood, heroic sonnet, heroic stanza, poetic forms, redemption, responsibility, Sicilian octave, Sicilian quatrain
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Coming of Age … an ongoing diatribe … LOL
In the most recent issue of American Poet, the journal of the American Academy of Poets, there is an advertisement for a book, Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath, written by Helen Vendler, who seems to … Continue reading
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Tagged adulthood, books, Coming of Age as a Poet, Gene Scott, Helen Vendler, maturity, poetry, Poetry, responsibility, writing
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The Parable of the Sower
Sometimes, I think that I have borne a lot of resentment, and fought against the world believing to lead with your fist uncurled meant weakness, and what you deserved, you got. I lived as if my troubles were the most … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged adulthood, childhood, daily poems, learning, maturity, parables, paradox
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