World Poetry Day

Listen to the presences inside poems,
Let them take you where they will.

Follow those private hints,
and never leave the premises.
-Rumi

Let's begin with ee cummings.  My favorite love poem.

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And move on to several stanzas of Rumi because World Poetry Day requires an ounce of bliss.

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And a short Pushkin because, though I'm tempted, it would be difficult (illegal?) to copy/paste the entirety of  Eugene Onegin.

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World Poetry Day II

Because these lines are without a doubt, my favorite lines of poetry ever written:

Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer-

"The Hollow Men"
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-T.S. Elliot