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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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Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom)

Speaking to you
this hour
these days when
I have lost the feather of poetry
and the rains
of separation
surround us tock
tock like Go tablets

Everyone has learned
to move carefully

'Dancing' 'laughing' 'bad taste'
is a memory
a tableau behind trees of law

In the midst of love for you
my wife's suffering
anger in every direction and the children wise
as tough shrubs
but they are not tough --so I fear
how anything can grow from this

all the wise blood
poured from little cuts
down into the sink

this hour it is not your body I want
but your quiet company

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