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If you love poetry, come share with us some of your favorite poems and explain to us the meaning you find in them. This is NOT a group for sharing your attempts at writing poetry. This IS a group for sharing your appreciation of published poetry.

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Welcome to "Loving Poetry"

The purpose of this group is to share poems that speak to us. Each separate thread should start with a poem and then the first reply should be a description of what you like (or don't like) about ... | posted by searching1

1 reply - last reply: "Thanks search. I'd like to also... more" ~ MisterScience

The Birthing

by Deborah Digges Call out the names in the procession of the loved. Call from the blood the ancestors here to bear witness to the day he stopped the car, we on our way to a great banquet in his h... | posted by MisterScience

1 reply - last reply: "wow. " ~ MisterScience

Does marriage end love?

by William Matthews "Perhaps you'll tire of me," muses my love, although she's like a great city to me, or a park that finds new ways to wear each flounce of light and investiture of weather. Soil... | posted by crestofwaves

4 replies - last reply: "I love the metaphors in this poem!... more" ~ AintNoNinny

Hibernate - L.L. Barkat

I have recently discovered a poet named L.L. Barkat through a poem of hers from her book "Inside/Out" that was published in an online ezine. I then went to her blog and read more from her. Her poem... | posted by AintNoNinny

3 replies - last reply: "Yes. A good way to look at... more" ~ AintNoNinny

Caresses and Cuffs - Jim Culleny

Silence thick as her stews sometimes filled my grandmother’s house but for the cars on 15 hissing toward Picatinny on a wet night big black Packards or Buicks heavy as a hard life, Chevy’s wide whi... read more | posted by MartiInMexico

3 replies - last reply: "Yes, it has a certain rhythm, not... more" ~ MartiInMexico

Haiku traffic signs

At the risk of not following the rules and getting pulled over by our loving traffic cop Marty, here is a link to some loving poetry used to keep folks safe in New York City... view link Oh, and ... | posted by MisterScience

4 replies - last reply: "Isn't possession 9/10's of the law?... more" ~ MisterScience

Now I Become Myself May Sarton

Now I Become Myself Now I become myself. It's taken Time, many years and places, I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people's faces, Run madly, as if Time were there, Terribly old, crying... | posted by MartiInMexico

2 replies - last reply: "I'm happy to see this poem by May... more" ~ walkinlady

50-50 BY LANGSTON HUGHES

I’m all alone in this world, she said, Ain’t got nobody to share my bed, Ain’t got nobody to hold my hand— The truth of the matter’s I ain’t got no man. Big Boy opened his mouth and said, Troub... read more | posted by MisterScience

4 replies - last reply: "It immediately reminded me of the... more" ~ crestofwaves

Snowbound

I'm from New England and my favorite NE poet is John Greenleaf Whittier. I heard that NE is getting snow this weekend, so I thought it appropriate to post this lovely poem that so aptly describes a... | posted by walkinlady

3 replies - last reply: "The trouble with October snowfall in... more" ~ MartiInMexico

Shoveling Snow With Buddha -- Billy Collins

In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok you would never see him doing such a thing, tossing the dry snow over a mountain of his bare, round shoulder, his hair tied in a knot, a mode... | posted by MartiInMexico

5 replies - last reply: "I used to say about needing to... more" ~ MartiInMexico

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