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  The Book of Poems

  Denisse Molina Fisher

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  In this charming Book of Poems, you will find poems that allows you to self-examine your own perceptions, inner-most feelings and choices. You will gain wisdom as your invited to ponder topics such as Empowerment, Resiliency, Compassion, Imperfection, Change, Self-Forgiveness, Storytelling, Boundaries, Conflict, Communication and Virtues. 
  Contemplate for the true message your soul needs to hear and harness your own unique ability to interpret poetry and symbolic imagery.

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  Columbus

  Joaquin Miller

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  This week, to celebrate Columbus Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six recordings of Columbus by Joaquin Miller.  This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 8th, 2006.

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  The Comedies Volume One - The...

  William Shakespeare

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  Love, enchantment, and misadventure abound in four timeless comedies by the great Bard of Elizabethan England.The Taming of the Shrew: After a battle of wits, the suitor Petruchio marries the headstrong lady Katherina and brings her to his home in Verona, where he sets about “taming” his willful bride into an obedient wife.The Merchant of Venice: In the most dramatic of Shakespeare’s comedies, a wealthy Venetian merchant is unable to repay a loan from the moneylender Shylock—who demands a pound of the borrower’s flesh.Twelfth Night: In this comedy of unrequited love and mistaken identity, Viola disguises herself as a man in the service of the lovesick Duke Orsino—whom she adores. The duke sends Viola to woo Countess Olivia who, in turn, falls in love with Viola’s male persona.A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The mischievous wood sprite Puck wreaks havoc on the romantic pursuits of four young lovers while a hapless actor is transformed into a fairy queen’s monstrous consort in this beloved comic fantasia.

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  Poetic tides

  Adrian Morton

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  I will listen I will look 
  Then it winds up in a book 
  Time and observation's all it took 
  Life is like a drawing board 
  On the wall my thoughts are stored 
  Nothing is forgotten or ignored 
  Joining dots, threading string 
  Puzzled pieces time will bring 
  Emerging then this thing 
  I write it down before its lost 
  Memory is all it cost 
  Onto a paper then its tossed

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  Ode An

  Edward Granville Browne

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of An Ode by Táhirih (Fátimih Baraghání) (1814/1817 – 1852), Translated by Edward Granville Browne (1862 – 1926). This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 7th, 2010.Fátimih Baraghání (1814/1817 – 1852), also known by the titles of Táhirih (Arabic for “The Pure One”) and Qurratu’l-‘Ayn (Arabic for “Consolation of the Eyes”) was an influential Iranian poet and Bábí heroine from the town of Qazvín. Her legacy is important to Bahá’ís, as well as supporters of women’s rights in Iran. In 1844, she became the seventeenth disciple or “Letter of the Living” of the Báb (1819-1850). As the only woman in this initial group of disciples, she is often compared to Mary Magdalene. From June-July 1848, she attended the Conference of Badasht where she appeared without a veil in public (a shocking statement of women’s rights) and declared that a new religious dispensation had been inaugurated. Coincidentally, shortly after this, the Seneca Falls Convention (an important women’s rights convention) was held in New York on the 19th-20th of July, 1848. She was executed in Tehran in 1852. Before her death, she said that although she would be killed, they could not stop the emancipation of women. Edward Granville Browne described her thus: “The appearance of such a woman as Qurratu’l-‘Ayn is in any country and any age a rare phenomenon, but in such a country as Persia it is a prodigy—nay, almost a miracle. Alike in virtue of her marvellous beauty, her rare intellectual gifts, her fervid eloquence her fearless devotion, and her glorious martyrdom, she stands forth incomparable and immortal amidst her countrywomen.” This poem is a ghazal composed in the Kámil metre. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. Browne notes that this poem appears to be addressed to the Báb. Browne made a versified translation of the poem, which first appeared in the J.R.A.S. in 1899. (Summary by Nicholas James Bridgewater)

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― Fathers - 12...

  William Wordsworth, Elizabeth...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Fathers - An Introduction 
  2 - Anecdote for Fathers by William Wordsworth 
  3 - Any Father to Any Son by F B Money-Coutts 
  4 - Come Home Father by Henry Clay Work 
  5 - To Her Father with Some Verses by Anne Bradstreet 
  6 - Our Fathers Also by Rudyard Kipling 
  7 - Portrait of My Father as a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  8 - The Sins of the Fathers by Stephen Crane 
  9 - To My Father on His Birthday by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  10 - The Father by Katharine Tynan 
  11 - Sonnet 37 - As a Decrepit Father Takes Delight by William Shakespeare 
  12 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce 
  13 - Epitaph on My Ever Honoured Father by Robert Burns

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