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#poetry #ThePoetryFoundation #Uncouplings #craigarnold
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Great Birthday Wishes to all Authors Born November 16 Adventurous Miriam Anne Holt Peter Viertel (1920-2007) Tony Geiss (1924-2011) Joan Lindsay (1896-1984) George S. Kaufman (1889-1961) Paula Vogel Jean Fritz (1915-2017) Michael Arlen (1895-1956) Juozas Grusas (1901-1986) Colin Thiele (1920-2006) Jessica Quinn Hugo Dittberner Aoife Cooksey Corey Lupton Tahir Shah Jamie Babbit Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) Craig Arnold (1967-2009) William Marsden (1754-1836) Bonnie Greer Jose Saramago (1922-2010) Nikolai Erdman (1900-1970) Dennis Kelly Allison Anders Nicholas Moore (1918-1986) Andrea Barrett Sheryl Wudunn Guo Moruo (1892-1978) Robin McKinley #AdventurousMiriam #AnneHolt #PeterViertel (1920-2007) #TonyGeiss (1924-2011) #JoanLindsay (1896-1984) #GeorgeSKaufman (1889-1961) #PaulaVogel #JeanFritz (1915-2017) #MichaelArlen (1895-1956) #JuozasGrusas (1901-1986) #ColinThiele (1920-2006) #JessicaQuinn #HugoDittberner #AoifeCooksey #CoreyLupton #TahirShah #JamieBabbit #ChinuaAchebe (1930-2013) #CraigArnold (1967-2009) #WilliamMarsden (1754-1836) #BonnieGreer #JoseSaramago (1922-2010) #NikolaiErdman (1900-1970) #DennisKelly #AllisonAnders #NicholasMoore (1918-1986) #AndreaBarrett #SherylWudunn #GuoMoruo (1892-1978) #RobinMcKinley
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Truth and Pleasure
“Occasionally, in the broad current of contemporary poetry and of writing about it, it seems as though an essential element of the condition of poetry--overflowing in its origin, I believe, and crucial to its survival--is in danger of being overlooked. It is the fact that poetry begins with pleasure (with “delight,” as Sir Philip Sidney says), and if it continues as poetry in our time, our memories, our minds, it does so as pleasure. The uneasy certainty that this is so has led the recurring waves of puritanism which our species has evolved in one repressive ideology after another (including the bottom-line puritanism of the modern world, with its gross devotion) to disparage or outlaw poetry as an undesirable and potentially hazardous substance, unprofitable and likely to encourage the notion that truth and pleasure might somewhere be related.” -W.S. Merlin in his foreword to SHELLS by Craig Arnold.
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Please hold me the forgotten way the wall pleads
spray-paint face and voice of a damned poet
the darling damned poets save them from themselves
maybe it is us they need saving from
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#maddiehasson #twisted#isawthelight #thefinder#willamonday #Henry #henrettacoles#henrycoles #impulse #youtube#stevengould #jumper#jennafaithhope #annahulce#lucasboone #clayboon#michaelpearce #cleocoles#sarahdesjardins #craigarnold#tannerstine #missipyle #teleport#teleportation #digitalart #art#drawing #tvshow #fanart#digitalartist
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"Bird-Understander", by Craig Arnold
Of many reasons I love you here is one
the way you write me from the gate at the airport
so I can tell you everything will be alright
so you can tell me there is a bird
trapped in the terminal all the people
ignoring it because they do not know
what do with it except to leave it alone
until it scares itself to death
it makes you terribly terribly sad
You wish you could take the bird outside
and set it free or (failing that)
call a bird-understander
to come help the bird
All you can do is notice the bird
and feel for the bird and write
to tell me how language feels
impossibly useless
but you are wrong
You are a bird-understander
better than I could ever be
who make so many noises
and call them song
These are your own words
your way of noticing
and saying plainly
of not turning away
from hurt
you have offered them
to me I am only
giving them back
if only I could show you
how very useless
they are not
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Your pencil eraser wears down long before the point
for every word you write you rub out two
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