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. - [ I don't really feel like writing you a poem, but I'm angry. You of all people, as if you deserve a poem. As if you deserve my time or thoughts or energy or love. But there we were and here we are. And I am angry. I am so. angry. ] at allpoetry
I don't really feel like writing you a poem, but I'm angry. You of all people, as if you deserve a poem. As if you deserve my time or thoughts or energy or love. But there we were and here we are. And I am angry. I am so. ang - dirt at allpoetry
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on I Watch People In The World by Taigu Ryokan, on February 3I love Ryokan's poems because they seem so much like diary entries. He records what he knows and feels, and it's that honesty which makes him so great.
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on To My Teacher by Taigu Ryokan, on February 3This gave me shivers. It reminds me so much of my grandpa, who passed away just over a year ago.
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on At Dusk by Taigu Ryokan, on February 3Wow. That was stunningly beautiful. I love the imagery of the voices being soaked up by the maple leaves. I understood that to mean that since deer are such silent creatures, their sounds can be heard only through the nature that surrounds them.
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on Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes, on January 16Just because he was a communist doesn't mean you should have no respect for him or his writing. Regardless of what his political beliefs were, he was an incredibly prolific writer.
This poem points out the flaws and ironies of America as it is called a "free" country. He's basically saying "Free?" Look at the black people, the red people, the yellow people, the poor, the handicapped, etc." He's pointing out that America is far from being what it claims to be. He's not suggesting ways to fix it. He's not even talking about communism at all. The poem has NOTHING at all to do with communism.
And as for America "working just fine" I think you're not looking at this poem in context. It was not written in modern times.
