I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU DON'T LOVE MEI do not understand why you don't love me.You loved me once. What changed? What did I do?Your eyes are mirrors in which I can't see me.Your lips are closed, a door I can't pass through.For years we shared our bodies, thoughts, ... Read more (622 words)

YOU LIVE IN THE WORLD YOU CHOOSEYou live in the world you choose.Each act is a creation.The evil and the goodCombine in just proportion.What you see and know,What you think and feel,What you are and do --All are by your choice.Choose love, and you'll be loved.Choose hate, and you'll be ... Read more (599 words)

I've been shouting it for years, and I will probably keep shouting for many years to come. If you want to get some quality, free visitors to your website-You Need To Write An Ezine Article! You can go ahead and admit that secretly you been toying with the idea anyway. ... Read more (581 words)

When we set about to write a poem about love or the ones we love, the temptation is to write with sentimentality which has a tendency to make the poem sound soppy and insincere. One way to avoid this and to make use of the romantic is for the writer ... Read more (417 words)

How to Publish Poetry the Smart Way It is one thing to write poetry; it is another thing to get it published-poets could not agree more. Poets are just too enamored with words that express their deepest thoughts and feelings-that thinking about how to publish their poetry is only an ... Read more (704 words)

VERY SOON I'LL HEAR THE VICTIMS' SCREAMSVery soon I'll hear the victims' screams,Even in the midst of my content,The end not quite enough to quell the means,Each nightmare not exactly what I meant.Recruited in a time of peace, I wentAbroad to serve more adolescent dreams,Not unaware, of course, I might ... Read more (565 words)

Poetry is dead. There are poets in abundance, but they are amateurs, generally not paid or praised for their chosen art form. The sonnet is gone, mostly forgotten, the words of the epic poem have grown weary, and stale, the entire world of poetry as we know it, as we ... Read more (641 words)

He is the second of four children. His parents' families were from the Lebanese mountain village of Ain el Kabou. His parents married in Cairo in 1945, where Odette, his mother, was born of a Maronite Christian father from the village, who had left to work in Egypt, and a ... Read more (254 words)

From the more general use of the term "poet laureate" arose its restriction in England to an official office of Poet Laureate, attached to the royal household. James I essentially created the position as it is known today for Ben Jonson in 1617, although Jonson's appointment does not seem to ... Read more (296 words)

BEFORE I see another day, Oh let my body die away! In sleep I heard the northern gleams; The stars, they were among my dreams; In rustling conflict through the skies, I heard, I saw the flashes drive, And yet they are upon my eyes, And yet I am alive; ... Read more (485 words)