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It might as well be spring . . .

so many love poems keep appearing in the blogs. Love poems are some of the hardest poems to write, or so claimed W. H. Auden. Here are a few classics that have inspired poets and lovers over the years:

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Ralegh
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond by e. e. cummings
Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell

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Poetry in Motion Contest

Dakota Wixom of the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics has started a new contest called "Poetry in Motion." The idea of the contest is that people will submit poems under 100 words, and the winning submission will be turned into an animation.

Submissions welcome: http://www.allthingsmotion.net/contests/

Poem #7: Tap Your Inner Language

For this poem, begin with a freewrite. Freewriting means just what it says: writing freely, without regard to spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or whether it makes any sense. For ten minutes, just write freely, in prose, whatever enters your mind. Your blog would be a great place to do this.

Our best poems . . .

are authentic.

They come from a place inside of us that is real. They are spoken in our own voices and touch on matters that genuinely concern us.
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A Sense of Form

A poem's form is partly visual: its look on the page. George Herbert's "Easter Wings" is an example of striking visual form, as is e. e. cummings' "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r." But visual form also works in less obvious ways. The lean, spare look of most Emily Dickinson poems complements her terse style, while the long, sweeping lines of Walt Whitman accentuate his bold, expansive message.

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