This poem has political and racial messages. Although the poem “Dream” is a delicate poem it contains the harsh reality of racial issues that existed and to some degree still exists in America.
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They sleep who know a regulated place
or pulse or tide or changing sky
according to some universal
stage direction obvious
like shorewashed shells
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There is only cartilage, only bones.
I must stitch together gashes that I did not produce.
I must put together the pieces of a cranium.
I am too human to live in peace.
Listening to father’s rhythmic movement around the house
I could hear the softness of his black leather shoes
As he put them on, and holding
A white china bowl painted with red roses
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The Costa Rican writer and poet Felipe Granados passed away in August 2009 at the age of 33.
"I want them to know that I felt calm on the night that I killed god, I slept like a baby"
Poem: Je t’aime from the collection Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard translated by Marilyn Kallet Eluard’s poetry is measured, planned, almost like a mathematical calculation that has the correction sum
'Anthology of Protest Poetry "(Summer 2009 Iran) which will be available in Farsi soon, with English/Italian/Spanish translations shortly. This Project is a joint effort between Dr. Mahnaz Badihian (poet, educator and activist) and Azadeh Davachi (poet and translator). For any ideas, suggestions or questions please contact publisher@mahmag.org. Below is a poem from that Anthology titled 'Tango in Evin' by Azadeh Davachi.
Guantanamo or Evin
They are only words
That pass through the
Incomplete understanding of geraniums
As a reader of poetry you always find poets that you can emotionally connect with and feel a specific excitement reading the feelings the poets put down on paper.
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Raymond Queneau (1903-1976), mathematician, poet and novelist, published in 1961 his monumental work Cent Mille Milliards de poèmes (One Hundred Thousand Billion Sonnets). This herculean work consists of 14 groups of 10 lines of poetry.
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