The Word "No".(Poem)

New Orleans Review;  December 1, 2007 ;   Crespo, Angel;   534 words ......the havoc of the word Yes. The word No is shaped by two emptinesses...negational. On the other hand, the word No has the ability to awaken...that of the eventuality of the poem--the face of the word No is almost affirmative. Since...the interior emptiness of the poem: and since poems ...

You say: Your Poem That Word.(Features)

Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  July 23, 2008 ;     84 words ...Byline: by Joe Cowley, Old S He came out with that word to me A word I had never heard before A word so powerful That it broke his lower jaw. I felt the power of that word As it knocked me to the ground...

Lennon poem peppered with f-word fetches 3,000 pounds

The Scotsman;  October 12, 1998 ;   JOHN INNES;   317 words ...A PROFANE poem by John Lennon which mentions the f-word 104 times fetched more than...she asked him to send her a poem at the height of his fame in 1969. It contains the word "F***" written in seven columns...middle of the centre block. The poem and a letter were bought by...

Words about words. (poem)

World Literature Today;  March 22, 1998 ;   Belsevica, Vizma;   251 words ......something they've done. The round mouth of the smallest little word, my favorite, turned angular and trembled. I had the feeling...I won't do it again! But in vain. It wasn't the kind of word that screams. And then I said: Words, oh my words - when...All. Even a hen. A bird knows it. So does a poet, and a ...

A word of comfort to Enid Greene Waldholtz.(poem)

The Nation;  January 8, 1996 ;   Trillin, Calvin;   20 words ...Your life's become a daytime soap. You suffer arrows. Also slings. This opera may be over soon, Though not until the fat man sings.

THE SUNDAY POEM: Word Tasting

The Independent on Sunday;  May 25, 2003 ;   Sarah Wardle;   294 words ......vintage known to man. The seeds can be used to grow this word in Europe or the New World. Each climate gives the word a different flavour. It's versatile, easily turned into language...Growers love it across the financial spectrum. Many find this word smooth and buttery, fruity and ripe. They say it is ...

On Not Using the Word "Cunt" in a Poem

The Virginia Quarterly Review;  January 1, 2006 ;   Williams, Lisa;   356 words ......stately and isn't safe: Let it be shorn, the poem's lush holiness. Let locks be trimmed...fluid cadence? Do I serve lip by thinking a poem is holy, not a hole to thrust things in...this time and listen, for one minute, to a poem that's not revealing crotch and pay attention...

No poem, words are gone today. (poem)(Mellen Poetry Press)

The American Poetry Review;  September 1, 1996 ;   Lombardo, Leigh Ann;   56 words ...The poem I want to write won't come out of my pen...afraid to bleed on such fine parchment So the poem I want to write stays tucked deep inside...to come out today Not on paper anyway The poem I want to write won't come out of my pen...

A Word or Two (Pantoum). (Poetry).(Poem)

Midstream;  July 1, 2003 ;   Korwin, Yala;   148 words ...A WORD OR TWO (PANTOUM) If my Mama had taught me Yiddish, I would have made out every word, When she took me to Aunt Sarah's house. We ate...cake, drank sweet tea. I would have made out every word, But picked out only kinderlakh and tate. We ate...

Words to the wise: Here's how to write a heart-melting poem to your...

Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK);  February 11, 2007 ;     770 words ......years of marriage, local poet Manly Johnson has composed a poem for his wife, Fran Ringold, for almost every one of her birthdays...a few of his poems. And Johnson, 86, has inspired many a poem by his two-time Oklahoma Poet Laureate wife, who is the longtime...Johnson and Ringold for a bit of advice on how to ...

Poems Of Percy Bysshe Shelley: One Word Is Too Often Profaned

Great Works of Literature;    Shelley, Percy Bysshe;   80 words ...00-00-0000 One Word Is Too Often Profaned One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother, And Pity from thee more dear Than that from...

FOR ME THE WORD.(Brief Article)(Poem)

International Journal of Humanities and Peace;  January 1, 2000 ;   Bentov, Mirtala;   42 words ...For me, the word must shine serenely, without suseless adornments and empty digressions Unveiling a stairway to far-off heights. Its artless confession unburdened at leisure, its letters scattered, the word will spread out in starry dotted lines across the sky. English

Considering Words.(Poem)(Brief article)

Feminist Studies;  March 22, 2007 ;   Najarro, Adela;   313 words ......house a simple question about how to spell a certain word, faster than I could predict, she came out to check...told me to be quiet. Quiet little girl. Don't say a word. Don't think a word. Don't write these words. Silence is the golden rule...

Teenager's words that touched Tony Blair; Prime Minister writes to...

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  July 31, 1998 ;   Oldham, Jeanette;   524 words ...FIONA Smith was just 13 when she wrote a poem about the kind of crime no child should...do to a child. And now, one year on, the poem has been personally recognised by Tony...week in which he told her he had heard her poem read out on a radio programme. Describing...

Word to wise: It's Will's // Discovered poem fits statistical model of...

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 10, 1986 ;     366 words ......statistical analysis based on every word in the writings of William Shakespeare...argument that a recently found love poem attributed to him is genuine...University analyzed the frequency of word usages in Shakespeare. They published...length. After the 350-year-old poem was found, the two put the ...