poetry – Page 5 – Meaghan Walsh Gerard

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POEM – April 16

April 16, 2014

RESUMÉ BY DOROTHY PARKER Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.

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POEM – April 15

April 15, 2014

CELERY BY OGDEN NASH Celery, raw Develops the jaw, But celery, stewed, Is more quietly chewed.

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EXCERPTED FROM THE LADY OF SHALOTT BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Heard a carol, mournful, holy, Chanted loudly, chanted lowly, Till her blood was frozen slowly, And her eyes were darken’d wholly, Turn’d to tower’d Camelot; For ere she reach’d upon the tide The first house by the water-side, Singing in her song she died, The…

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POEM – April 13

April 13, 2014

THE RED WHEELBARROW BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

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POEM – April 12

April 12, 2014

Excerpt from Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we…