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A goal of this community is to create a clear text library of copy & paste-able poems.

It is to make it easier to add more poetry and poets and their publications visible to our digital world. So please format it accordingly.

title could be even if it is duplicated by your username:

TITLE OF POEM by AUTHOR OF POEM

body of post could have:

TITLE OF POEM IN ITALIC

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that is why i haven't taken on ee cumming yet because i want to use only markdown

List any translators please put as a first comment.

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The Way Through the Woods

They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.

Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate
(They fear not men in the woods,
Because there are so few),
You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods …
But there is no road through the woods!

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