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Poets Media isolates the most poignant, powerful, and exquisitely composed verses and quotes in the universal poetry canon.
Bone Shivers
Curtains white as bone, swish lazily to a tune only they can hear. The moon’s watchful eye bores down on a small quiet house; It’s baneful, sadness reeks in waves to any brave enough to venture near. The word house may be too insufficient a word to use- shack is more accurate. One soulless night, a woman of late fifties, finds herself walking by this lonely house one sweltering summer’s eve. A woman of questionable morals, she indeed was, and with no home, family, or money to her name, she decides to sleep there for the evening.
By Mikayla Decker 4 years ago in Poets
Percy Shelley and Bad Jubies
Percy Shelley took it upon himself to defend poetry. Yet it was not poetry in the most literal sense that he was defending, but language, and by extension, art in all its various forms. A Defense of Poetry comes across at first as mystical gobbledygook. It is just the sort of thing one might expect from a romantic poet; but when we discard the flowery, transcendental attempt at describing the euphoric episodes of the poet and we dig into the substance of Shelley's argument, we will find that the distinction he is attempting to make is not between poetry and other forms of art, but rather between art and entertainment; substance and appearance; revelation and mere distraction.
By C. Rommial Butler4 years ago in Poets
