MTB — Variations on the Rubaiyat
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Hello, this is Frank Hubeny. Today’s challenge involves the rubaiyat. It is
to write a poem that uses the rubai …
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Spying the Spy (1918)
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*Starring:*
- Samuel 'Sambo' Jacks
- Sam Robinson
*Storyline*
Amateur detective Sambo Sam sets out to round up German spies, ...
Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Summer
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*“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy” —
Anton Chekov*
SOURCE
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on t...
modern monks
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hands swishing
through rosary smart phone beads
head bowed low
moving through city crowds
eyes unseen
hidden hoodie deep
one wandering mass
of modern monks
Are You Dick Whipped?
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Black Girls Are Easy
Categories:
- Basic B*tch
- We Gotta Do Better
Why do you let guys play games with your heart? Oh, that’s right, you don’t...
Digital Humanities Club: Week 12
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On April 18, we experimented with audio recordings, and we continued
working on graphic design imaging for what will be our "great escape"
project visua...
Heirloom (Old Poem / New Poem)
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People sometimes ask how to know when a poem is "Done." I resist that term,
actually; I think of poems as ideas and insights gathered to the
consciousness...
Erica Dawson
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Erica Dawson is the author of two award-winning collections of poetry: *The
Small Blades Hurt* (Measure Press, 2014) and *Big-Eyed Afraid* (Waywiser,
2007...
This is the Country We Live In
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On Valentine’s Day, more than a dozen children attending a perfectly normal
day at a perfectly normal high school in a perfectly normal town in Florida
w...
hold me to this
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becoming softer after every compromise
brittled and self-destructive, we were charring
into sharper malicious states of being
compressing ourselves into mo...
Life happens...
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My baby boy is 12...
My baby girl almost 1...
Life happened so i did not post anything in forever.
Well Same moonlight for our Dreams is coming back.
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THE JEM MOVIE'S SHANA AND COLORISM
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from a decidedly brown-skinned black girl with a big bouncy purple fro to a
beige biracial "safely black" girl with straight hair
This strikes close to hom...
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Hey there, fighter
it will get brighter.
Take a breath, a little deeper
and bring your faith a little higher.
Remember, you are a leader
not a follower..
M...