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Something Wonderful (2021), Something Necessary (2024)
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In the tower block dreams, that I cannot resist
Feel like heading back where the magic begun
Mid the concrete squares and the cherry blossom
I'm on the rooftop, yeah, yeah,
I got my sunscreen on, I'm feelin' fine.
youtu.be/iOEwvMhYWxc
In the tower block dreams, that I cannot resist
Feel like heading back where the magic begun
Mid the concrete squares and the cherry blossom
I'm on the rooftop, yeah, yeah,
I got my sunscreen on, I'm feelin' fine.
youtu.be/iOEwvMhYWxc
-Diane Seuss
blossoming of
the trees she said
to herself
sloshing unshod
through the snow
water.
This was the nature
of her humor,
the wilderness
she aspired to.
Mostly it was a way
of seeing that did
not resort to sentence-
[...]
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
-Diane Seuss
blossoming of
the trees she said
to herself
sloshing unshod
through the snow
water.
This was the nature
of her humor,
the wilderness
she aspired to.
Mostly it was a way
of seeing that did
not resort to sentence-
[...]
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I've been lucky to have spent some time with him -- a couple of times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/a...
I've been lucky to have spent some time with him -- a couple of times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/a...
its.unc.edu/2025/11/18/i...
its.unc.edu/2025/11/18/i...
-Campbell McGrath
Bird is building a metropolis with his horn.
Here are the gates of Babylon, the walls of Jericho cast down.
Might die in Chicago, Kansas City’s where I was born.
Snowflake in a blizzard, purple rose before the thorn.
[...]
poets.org/poem/charlie...
-Campbell McGrath
Bird is building a metropolis with his horn.
Here are the gates of Babylon, the walls of Jericho cast down.
Might die in Chicago, Kansas City’s where I was born.
Snowflake in a blizzard, purple rose before the thorn.
[...]
poets.org/poem/charlie...
Over the people with rock 'n' roll
I said, I bet they think they can hide the truth
From all me people from here; our roots
When they think they have it all their way
Here we come, and it's a brand new day
Now they had listen...
youtu.be/abkKF8ESeg4
Over the people with rock 'n' roll
I said, I bet they think they can hide the truth
From all me people from here; our roots
When they think they have it all their way
Here we come, and it's a brand new day
Now they had listen...
youtu.be/abkKF8ESeg4
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I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita lineman
Is still on the line
I know I need a small vacation
But it don't look like rain
If it snows that stretch down south
Will never stand the strain
youtu.be/-HFCuBLAjXo
I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita lineman
Is still on the line
I know I need a small vacation
But it don't look like rain
If it snows that stretch down south
Will never stand the strain
youtu.be/-HFCuBLAjXo
Dean Young
Sometimes I think about climbing
a telephone pole but then what
Telephone poles now have almost nothing
to do with telephones but I liked
how a curly cord went into the receiver
then a sturdier black wire went into the wall
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/88942/...
Dean Young
Sometimes I think about climbing
a telephone pole but then what
Telephone poles now have almost nothing
to do with telephones but I liked
how a curly cord went into the receiver
then a sturdier black wire went into the wall
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/88942/...
The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet
youtu.be/93_umRjvlTE
The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat
Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet
youtu.be/93_umRjvlTE
-Ada Limón
Two full cypress trees in the clearing
intertwine in a way that almost makes
them seem like one. Until at a certain angle
from the blue blow-up pool I bought
this summer to save my life, I see it
is not one tree, but two, [...]
poets.org/poem/it-begi...
-Ada Limón
Two full cypress trees in the clearing
intertwine in a way that almost makes
them seem like one. Until at a certain angle
from the blue blow-up pool I bought
this summer to save my life, I see it
is not one tree, but two, [...]
poets.org/poem/it-begi...
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-Jeannine Hall Gailey
Your family is coming over for Thanksgiving.
Even worse, it’s snowing.
Headless robots are playing soccer with your soul.
UFOs have been sighted overhead.
A meteor is definitely heading straight for you.
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
-Jeannine Hall Gailey
Your family is coming over for Thanksgiving.
Even worse, it’s snowing.
Headless robots are playing soccer with your soul.
UFOs have been sighted overhead.
A meteor is definitely heading straight for you.
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
He pulls the spitting high-tension wires down
Helpless people on subway trains
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town
youtu.be/RTzb-sduiWc
He pulls the spitting high-tension wires down
Helpless people on subway trains
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town
youtu.be/RTzb-sduiWc
Please check it out and support poetry in @spectrum.ieee.org
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Please check it out and support poetry in @spectrum.ieee.org
spectrum.ieee.org/on-rereading...
-Tess Gallagher
The sleep of this night deepens
because I have walked coatless from the house
carrying the white envelope.
All night it will say one name
in its little tin house by the roadside.
I have raised the metal flag
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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48861/...
-Tess Gallagher
The sleep of this night deepens
because I have walked coatless from the house
carrying the white envelope.
All night it will say one name
in its little tin house by the roadside.
I have raised the metal flag
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48861/...
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The Earth says, "Hello"
You twinkle above us
We twinkle below
Good mornin', starshine
You lead us along
My love and me as we singing
Our early mornin' singin' song
Gliddy glub gloopy, nibby nabby noopy la, la, la, lo, lo
Sabba sibby sabba, nooby abba
youtu.be/-I-NbgskFeY
The Earth says, "Hello"
You twinkle above us
We twinkle below
Good mornin', starshine
You lead us along
My love and me as we singing
Our early mornin' singin' song
Gliddy glub gloopy, nibby nabby noopy la, la, la, lo, lo
Sabba sibby sabba, nooby abba
youtu.be/-I-NbgskFeY
-Walt Whitman
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45479/...
-Walt Whitman
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
[...]
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45479/...
are automated using NLP meth-
ods. Poetry presents probably the greatest challenge to this com-
putational way of processing texts in natural language. It has a
high density of ambiguity and [...]
ground-zero.khm.de/wp-content/u...
are automated using NLP meth-
ods. Poetry presents probably the greatest challenge to this com-
putational way of processing texts in natural language. It has a
high density of ambiguity and [...]
ground-zero.khm.de/wp-content/u...
"In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on LLMS..."
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
"In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on LLMS..."
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
Believe it if you need it
If you don't, just pass it on
Sun and shower, wind and rain
In and out the window
Like a moth before a flame
And it's just a box of rain
I don't know who put it there
Believe it if you need it
Or leave it if you dare
youtu.be/PdWTxJYNjcM
Believe it if you need it
If you don't, just pass it on
Sun and shower, wind and rain
In and out the window
Like a moth before a flame
And it's just a box of rain
I don't know who put it there
Believe it if you need it
Or leave it if you dare
youtu.be/PdWTxJYNjcM
the smalle rayne downe can Rayne
Cryst yf my love were in my Armys
And I yn my bed Agayne.
Western wind when will thou blow
The small rain down can rain
Christ! If my love were in my arms
And I in my bed again.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westron...
the smalle rayne downe can Rayne
Cryst yf my love were in my Armys
And I yn my bed Agayne.
Western wind when will thou blow
The small rain down can rain
Christ! If my love were in my arms
And I in my bed again.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westron...
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