Read a love poem to a black woman titled One Enamour'd On A Black-Moor (link below). By Eldred Revett. Circa 1657. "What a strange love doth me invade..."

Side Note: There are about 72 masques and plays with black characters written between the 16th and 17th century. But this doesn't include poems like the ones below.

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something beginning with why

I spy
with my little eye
the tower of cry

oh hi!

the sight from a sigh
the might of a may
the nigh of away

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slow dance

i don’t know
the ifs and thens
the chance
the firsts and lasts
congrats
i’m slow

i see lacks
and scraps
the straw
the traps

and the grass
laughs
and the trees
dance

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quo vadis

press to distress
express disdain
dismay
say if I may
dis is in vain

but there’s rain in my veins
and through the pain
is where we gain
the whys and the eyes
for I’s and the lies

I guess I got caught in the rot
but hey why not
leave like a leaf
live and relieve
weave and retrieve
humus is us and whatnot

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'Invictus' by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,   
  Black as the Pit from pole to pole,   
I thank whatever gods may be   
  For my unconquerable soul....

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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

T. S. Eliot - 'Morning at the Window'

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Tinnitus

I wish someone had told me
There'd be so much noise
It bothers me night and day
Distracts me from my thoughts

I wish someone had told me
There was a racket in my future
I'd have said goodbye to silence.

Please join Poets Corner this Wednesday 16 November at 7:30 pm (Pacific) featuring Stephen Collis and @garthmartens

This is a HYBRID event & open to the public. We'd love to see you in person at Fairleigh Dickinson University auditorium (842 Cambie St) or online via Zoom (register here): https://tinyurl.com/2jzxk6mx 📘🖊

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Please join Poets Corner this Wednesday 16 November at 7:30 pm (Pacific) featuring Stephen Collis and @garthmartens

This is a HYBRID event & open to the public. We'd love to see you in person at Fairleigh Dickinson University auditorium (842 Cambie St) or online via Zoom (register here): https://tinyurl.com/2jzxk6mx 📘🖊

open mic!!! 🎙

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From "scent of orange blossoms: haiku/senryu,” by Teresa Mei Chuc.

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'The Tyger’ by William Blake

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry...

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“oh god it’s wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke too many cigarettes
and love you so much”

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@melissastuddard looking for #poetry prompts. #poetry4all #poetrytoots

Hey, Garth Martens is here! @garthmartens And he’s a dad now!!! 🤩 #canlit #poetrytoots #poetsofmastadon #poet

Hey, Garth Martens is here! @garthmartens And he’s a dad now!!! 🤩 #canlit #poetrytoots #poetsofmastadon #poet

@adambeyoncelowe You’re a poet, for sure.

“I will unearth
your stories, find the ships that
discarded you, and sink them all.”

https://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem-Of-The-Week-Bone-Railroad-By-Adam-Lowe

Gotta follow you. Welcome! I mean I’ve been here a whole day already so I can welcome you. 👋

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Think Halloween was scary? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Today is “Election Day” and @NewVerseNews has Howie Good’s prose poem. Trick or treat?
https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2022/11/election-day.html #poetrytoots #electionday2022

Shu Cai (Chen Shucai) 树才, b. 1965

慢慢的，一切都滑向另一切……
一个人也必将让位给另一个……

慢慢的。一切的
一切：空空如也！

Slowly, everything slips toward another everything . . .
and everyone will surely make way for another.

Slowly. The everything
of everything: is nothingness!

[From The Everything of Everything]

Begins:

Slowly. The everything of everything
in the drawers of memory

will find its own place.
After lightning ends, the sky is empty again.

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@ChristineSwint hashtags are great for connecting on here (please excuse the mansplain / mastodonsplain). #poet #poetrytoots #poetry #bookstodon #litodons