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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

BODY OF POEM formatted as poet wanted it or its closest facsimile

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.

Formatting help: two blank spaces at the end of a line will force a new line;

most certainly learning the Unicode markdown labels for spacing

 

 

 

and how to use the & and ; sigils to activate them for your or someone else's poetry spacing.

if a poem's language settings make it at all difficult to mod i'm deleting it.

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Well In Ruined Courtyard

Down this old well
what leaves have fallen,
what cores of eaten apples,
what scraps of paper!
An old trash barrel.
November, no one comes.

But I come, trying
to breathe that word
which should make the leaves fly up
like a green jet
to clothe the naked tree,
the whole fruit leap to the bough,
the scraps like fleets of letters
sail up into my hands.

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