All of the Blog Poems Put Together: No Longer A Test: The Real Deal

joybragi84
Nov 24, 2022
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Updated: Nov 25, 2022

Yes, the headline is correct. In the PDF above are all the NEW poems that I have posted in this blog. It does not include any of the poems that I have posted from any of my other works. I decided to put them in a PDF this time instead of Dropbox because I use Dropbox so seldom. A few people tested the accessibility of the PDF and found it worked really well, even on their cellphones, perhaps even better on their cellphones. Let me know what you think. Enjoy!

The picture above was taken by Kellie on one of our walks at the city park and fairgrounds. As you can probably tell, I like the simplicity of the color arrangements found in leaves. If you look at all the pictures that I post, probably 10-15% are leaves. I guess that I love leaves. Go figure!

Hey! Thanks for being a reader! Please do let me know what you think about this collection. Should I publish it?

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I find that I cannot exist without Poetry--without eternal poetry--half the day will not do--the whole of it--I began with a little, but habit has made me a Leviathan.-John Keats

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value.-T. S. Eliot

A man may praise and praise, but no one recollects but that which pleases.-George Gordon, Lord Byron

The great beauty of poetry is that it makes everything in every place interesting.-John Keats

Our faulty elder poets sacrificed the passion and passionate flow of poetry to the subtleties of intellect and to the stars of wit; the moderns to the glare and glitter of a perpetual, yet broken and heterogeneous imagery, or rather to an amphibious something, made up, half of image, and half of abstract meaning. The one sacrificed the heart to the head; the other both heart and head to point and drapery.-S. T. Coleridge

The purpose of rhythm, it has always seemed to me, is to prolong the moment of contemplation, the moment when we are both asleep and awake, which is the one moment of creation.-W. B. Yeats

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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.-Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is when emotion has found its thought and thought has found words--Robert Frost

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance--Carl Sandburg

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry--John Cage

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you--Joseph Joubert

Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own. ~Dylan Thomas