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Way with words at allpoetry
I was at a large family gathering recently, watching a televised sporting event with my teen-aged nephew. This young man, who is mentally challenged but quite inquisitive, was asking about some of the weeks top news stories:
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The fog rolled in like Borkum Riff from a cheap straw pipe,

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on Ghosts In Love by Vachel Lindsay, on June 8, 2005
The illusion of "fall" as in the physical act, was inspired. We certainly adorn ourselves with all those wispy trapsings.
on Ghosts by Anne Sexton, on June 8, 2005
The image of the old men ghosts is enough to drive away many a pleasant thought. I feel she is not speaking of ghosts at all, but those transparent issues in her own life. A child who cries "like the devil" herself after being abused, the image of a father/husband/lover worn by age, her drunken father. The image of an aged self, rendered "usless " by infirmity, or better, her mother, the aspiring writer, now turned "usless" by lack of purpose. Compelling and very rich.
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on We Are Seven by William Wordsworth, on May 24, 2005
Great job capturing the mode of Wordsworth, the style of the era, the compelling story of the ballad and a spirit of the emergence of youth through the understanding of age. This dawning from innocence is remarkably well told.