Poems about Literature

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Wooden Glass

The material is strong unlike that glass,
Yet it is just as delicate and just as soft

by paper-angel 43 lines, 11 comments, on May 7 7:09 PM. In contemporary, fantasy, nature, literature
Bewitched Immortal Love

A Vampiress' Love Story

by APoetessSylvia Leigh 54 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 28 6:34 PM. In Dark, Erotiva, Vampiress, Vampire, Moonlight, Love, Passion, Literature, Turn Me
Americana

to the masters of the pen
born of a mixing nation

by Everlasting-Fallout 38 lines, on Apr 28 7:34 AM. In Literature, Poetry, Society
Dusting Off Some Dear Old Things - Bronze

here is the whole of it, a book of simple words
rasping its scratchy throat that puts mild men to sleep

by CarolDesjarlais 25 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 27 4:54 PM. In Literature
Der andorranische Jude

by LittleAnn 16 lines, 10 comments, on Mar 4 4:44 PM. In National Socialism, but-not-really, Literature
Point of Decision

It was winter. It was the city. It was night.
It was bitter cold.

by MargaretG 37 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 1 2:31 PM. In Literature, Found, Contest
Tribute to Percy Bysshe Shelley

***

by Rose of Ireland 4 lines, 23 comments, on Feb 18 6:00 PM. In Literature, Philosophy, Poetry

Wolves - Based From Hamlet's Sililoquy

To be, or not to be- that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler to leave the pack

by Ivy-Lee-Ellas 43 lines, on Feb 10 10:05 PM. In Shakespear, Hamlet, Wolves, Literature, Thoughts
These Words Alive

I sit here in the dark of night
And let slip these words I love

by CaliOkie 49 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 31 11:54 AM. In Historical, Literature, Lost
Withered Majesty

With flicking tail the ethereal being
Is one with the surrounding aquamarine.

by Skuicide 33 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 25 11:13 PM. In metaphor, nature, mermaid, literature
The Death of Life

A leafy child,
Fetus bound to the ground,

by Skuicide 37 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 25 10:55 PM. In metaphor, blank verse, plant, death, literature
I mince no words...

"I was born liberated",
if you weren't then you need to try a rebirth.

by poetryality 51 lines, 13 comments, on Jan 18 1:31 PM. In Contest, Literature
The Kid Comes Back Mad

("this carry go bring come my dear, brings misery")

by polly filla 58 lines, 10 comments, on Jan 11 6:13 PM. In Literature, Art, Political, Anti-Capitalist, Freedom
Divine Justice

by CitrineSunrise 31 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 5 1:31 PM. In Spiritual, Thoughts, Literature

In a Distant Other-When

I might have liked to live in Milton’s day, Those years he dwelt beneath St. Peter’s shade;

by micol 17 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 5 12:59 AM. In Sonnet, History, Literature
Le Roi Ecossais

Ses mots snaked par mes lèvres, La glace eux avec le venin amer,

by demetrah10 9 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 3 12:36 AM 2007. In Literature, Personal, Theatre
It was a poisonous book.

With tendrils of ink it reaches out to ensnare you
You don’t see it coming, wouldn’t suspect

by Rhaine 21 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 22 5:44 PM 2007. In epigraph, literature, Oscar Wilde
The Ghosts of Literation

But oh, alas, we cannot speak
As we've no mouths to talk

by fur elise 37 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 1 5:57 AM 2007. In weird, books, literature, cool
Inferno

The violins playing in the back.
My mind is losing track

by Angel Wing Disease 52 lines, 20 comments, on Aug 27 12:29 AM 2007. In Weird, Thoughts, Literature
Mystical Words Lie

by Amaranthine Lover 21 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 26 11:26 PM 2007. In Fantasy, Hope, Literature, Contemporary, Contest, Abstract, Dark
Song for Septimus

Hands black in the lamp-light
sillhouetted and pointing at your muse-mother

by Cool Jew 28 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 28 6:24 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Other, Literature

Writer of Immortal Words

literary genius

by Haiku-bless-you 7 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 26 6:10 PM 2007. In tribute, literature, author
Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!

Tempted by Witches' prophecies
Thy murderous ambition and greed

by NooNiThEWitcH 86 lines, 37 comments, on Jul 7 7:59 PM 2007. In Ode, Drama, Literature. Reward
To My Friend Paul Bäumer

My friend Paul Bäumer, / are you still resting in the western frontier? / You were only nineteen and my youngest hero. / but you achieved more than other heroes. / Your life was destroyed by the war, / for generatio

by Sabir Abdus Samee 20 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 7 10:09 AM 2007. In Sad, Pain, War, Literature
a good read

i want to read you like a book / spine bent back / smelling the pages / savouring each line / skipping ahead to the ending / re-reading it from the beginning / translating into french / then italian / then spa

by Wild at Heart 12 lines, on May 3 8:11 AM 2007. In sex, literature, love, language and more sex
Jay Gatsby and the Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

*

by Simpatia 163 lines, on Mar 30 6:20 AM 2007. In Society, Literature
The Fall of the Literary Empire

And you thought Rome was the only empire once???

by BlackRabbit 38 lines, on Mar 15 3:07 AM 2007. In Word, Reading, Literature
Les Belles Lettres

There are many reasons for encouraging scholarly studies of poetry, literature and the humanities and social sciences in general. As Hele

by RonPrice 27 lines, on Mar 12 7:31 PM 2007. In poetry critic, autobiography, Vendler, patrimony, lecture, literature
In Skies Of Shadow

More phraseology poetry. Vaguely Phillip Pullman-inspired.

by Samflix 34 lines, on Feb 27 5:03 PM 2007. In Literature, Death, Funeral, Sad, Hope, Terror
Summer's Day

“A great while ago the world begun,
and we’ll strive to please you every one !”
Mist melted from the mountain grey

by Jonathan ROBIN 859 lines, 24 comments, on Feb 5 12:14 AM 2007. In Poetics, Writing, Humor, Literature, Nature, Parody, ad infinitum et ad vitam

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